Everyone loves the 80’s, well almost everyone. Some of us that grew up in the decade, especially those of us that were teenagers would like to forget some of the horrible memories of that decade. Namely the fashion!
But for the most part the eighties were times of excess and gluttony, especially with horror movies. Some of the best and some of the classic horror flicks we now know of and love came out of the 80’s So what were some of the best of 1980, well I found a list courtsey of About.com.
Check out the list below and by all means if you have one thats not there leave a comment and let me know!
1) Friday the 13th
Young, sex-crazed counselors at Camp Crystal Lake are systematically slaughtered eleven years after a young boy named Jason drowned in the lake due to negligence. A classic in the slasher genre, this movie has no degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon!
2) The Shining
Frustrated author Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they learn that the previous caretaker had gone mad. When Jack begins to suffer the same fate, a horrible and ancient evil is unleashed.
3) Motel Hell
Farmer Vincent (Rory Calhoun) is a simple, overalled rustic who operates Motel Hello and a quaint sausage shop on the side. “It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters!†is his slogan… and he means it.
4) Tourist Trap
Chuck Connors stars as the proprietor of a roadside museum who makes an art of kidnapping young women and transforming them into mannequins in order to “flesh out†his macabre exhibits.
5) Mother’s Day
A psychotic mommy encourages her two teched sons to commit horrendous acts of violence against a trio of beautiful young women who find themselves in the wrong woods at the wrong time. The unstable brothers have talent with an electric carving knife, but the women band together and fight back with bloody vengeance.
6) Terror Train
On New Year’s Eve, the boys of Sigma Phi invite friends to a masquerade ball aboard a chartered train, where a knife-wielding psycho crashes the party. Unrivaled scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis gives a lungful — and more — here on the fast-track to horror.
7) The Fog
Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook, The Fog takes place in the fictional town of Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside community which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What they don’t know is, when the town was born several people died. That night a mysterious fog rolls through the town, giving the centurion seaman spirits their opening to settle some scores.
8) Dressed to Kill
A lonely wife (Angie Dickenson) follows her doctor’s (Michael Caine) orders and seeks comfort in the arms of a stranger. After a dangerous and anonymous sexual encounter, she meets with the wrong end of a razor blade. But that’s just the beginning!
9) The Changeling
After the death of his wife, a music teacher (George C. Scott) moves to Seattle in hopes of starting a new life in a grand old mansion. Unfortunately, his new home turns out to be haunted by the unruly ghost of a murdered child bent on revenge after 70 years of torment.
10) The Watcher in the Woods
Here’s one for the kiddies. When an American family moves to a creepy woods-surrounded mansion in England owned by the mysterious Mrs. Aylwood (Bette Davis), they are soon haunted by spooky voices, freaky visions, and the littlest sister seems oddly possessed by an entity who likes to write backwards.
