Horror Films: 1989
by capkronos | created - 09 Sep 2016 | updated - 11 Sep 2016 | PublicMovies listed below are in alphabetical order by their best known English-language title. If the film doesn't have an English-language title, the original is used.
Not listed on IMDb:
- Blood Brothers (dir: Mike Diana)
- Dead Silence (dir: Hugh Gallagher)
- Evening with H.G. Lewis, An (dir: unknown)
- Eyes of Death / Sepasang Mata Maut (dir: Torro Margens)
- Gorgon Video Magazine 2 (dir: various) (unreleased except for screener copies)
- Hell Can't Wait (dir: Jen-Chieh Chang)
- Horror Effects (dir: unknown) (doc. on Tom Savini)
- Kyonsi Quest 2: UFO from Spiritual World / Kyonsi kuesuto 2: Dai-reikai kara kita UFO (dir: Lin Yin)
- Lonely Spirit in an Old Building / Hei Lou Gu Hun (dir: Liang Ming and Mu Deyuan)
- Monster Maker (dir: Giles Foster)
- Mystery Treasure / Misteri Harta Karun (dir: Abdi Wiyono)
- Red & Rosy (dir: Frank Grow)
- Red Spider Stings / Sengatan Laba-Laba Merah (dir: B.Z. Kadaryono)
- Satan's Revenge: Karang Blorong / Pembalasan Setan Karang Bolong (dir: Ratno Timoer)
- Scared to Death / Terror a la muerte (dir: Mario Alcantara)
- Spirit / Roh (dir: Susilo S.W.D.)
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1. After Midnight (1989)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A college class, Psychology of Fear, has a new teacher who believes that you have to feel fear to understand it. A group of students convene at the teacher's house, where scary stories are told.
Directors: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat | Stars: Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada, Judie Aronson
Votes: 2,394 | Gross: $0.08M
2. Alien from the Deep (1989)
91 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that wreaks havoc in the area.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Daniel Bosch, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Luciano Pigozzi, Robert Marius
Votes: 811
3. Alien Space Avenger (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has ... See full summary »
Director: Richard W. Haines | Stars: Robert Prichard, Michael McCleery, Charity Staley, Gina Mastrogiacomo
Votes: 325
4. Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Horror
The demonic forces in the Amityville house transfer to an ancient lamp, which finds its way to a remote California mansion where the evil manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Fredric Lehne, Lou Hancock
Votes: 3,503
5. El anticristo 2 (Magic London) (1989)
80 min | Thriller, Horror
Something satanic is taking over people, leading them to practice satanism, sex and destruction.
Director: Germán Monzó | Stars: Víctor Israel, Óscar Morales, Mercé Fillola, Kenji Ayashi
Votes: 38
aka: The Antichrist 2: Magic London
6. Cita con la muerte (1989)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directors: Juan Antonio de la Riva, Alfredo Gurrola, Rafael Montero | Stars: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Mariagna Prats, Guillermo García Cantú, David Reynoso
Votes: 18
aka: Appointment with Death
7. Arabella: Black Angel (1989)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Arabella is a nymphomaniac. One day, her writer husband finds her with another man. She has a strange reaction: Arabella kills her lover.
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Tinì Cansino, Valentina Visconti, Francesco Casale, Carlo Mucari
Votes: 783
aka: Arabella, the Black Angel
8. Attack of the Hideopoid (1989)
Horror
Director: Rick Werner Fahr | Stars: John Black, Rick Werner Fahr, Helen Halloran, Fred Hopkins
9. Bad Blood (1988)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Artist who lives in an old mansion imagines that her dead husband has been reincarnated as her son.
Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Georgina Spelvin, Randy Spears, Linda Blair, Troy Donahue
Votes: 188
10. Bad Girls from Mars (1990)
R | 86 min | Comedy
There's a killer on the set of a sci-fi cheapie, and the new leading lady (Edy Williams) could be next.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens, John Henry Richardson
Votes: 723
11. The Banker (1989)
R | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
Director: William Webb | Stars: Robert Forster, Shanna Reed, Duncan Regehr, Jeff Conaway
Votes: 733
12. Banned (1989)
97 min | Comedy, Horror
A mellow jazz guitarist is possessed by the ghost of a wild punk rocker
Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: Amy Brentano, Fred Cabral, Roger Coleman, Victor Competiello
Votes: 57
13. The Basement (1989)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
Four strangers are summoned to the basement of a abandoned house by a mysterious entity known only as The Sentinel. One after another, they are forced to witness heinous deeds they have yet... See full summary »
Director: Timothy O'Rawe | Stars: Dennis Driscoll, Kathleen Heidinger, David Weber, Scott Corizzi
Votes: 161
14. Battle Heater (1989)
93 min | Comedy, Horror
A kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Akira Emoto, Hisako Hara, Masao Imafuku, Kenichi Ishii
Votes: 122
15. Baxter (1989)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A white bull terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Lise Delamare, Jean Mercure, Jacques Spiesser, Catherine Ferran
Votes: 2,748
16. Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
R | 85 min | Thriller
Harry Ross (Wings Hauser), comes apart when he catches his wife sleeping with another man. To fix his marriage, he devises the insane plan of sleeping with another woman (Linda Blair). Then of course, all sorts of disaster breaks out.
Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Wings Hauser, Kathy Shower, Linda Blair, Veronica Hart
Votes: 294
17. Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodeling." When they can't pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Vic Tayback, Frank Gorshin, Art Metrano, Rodney Eastman
Votes: 199
18. Beverly Hills Vamp (1989)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
A trio of geeks go to Hollywood to make a movie and are bored one night so they get some hookers to have some sex. Unfortunately, the hookers like to drink blood.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Britt Ekland, Eddie Deezen, Tim Conway Jr., Tom Shell
Votes: 762
19. Beware: Children at Play (1989)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.
Director: Mik Cribben | Stars: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero
Votes: 1,452
20. Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ben hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.
Director: Jay Woelfel | Stars: Nick Baldasare, Rick Kesler, Susan Pinsky, Norm Singer
Votes: 886
21. Beyond the Door III (1989)
R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An introverted American student of Balkan descent travels to Yugoslavia as part of a school trip to witness an ancient pagan ritual, but the pagans hide a deadly secret.
Director: Jeff Kwitny | Stars: Mary Kohnert, Bo Svenson, Victoria Zinny, Savina Gersak
Votes: 1,537
aka: Amok Train
22. The Black Cat (1989)
R | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An actress starts seeing visions of a witch character called Levana, which she's supposed to play in an upcoming horror movie, and slowly begins to discover a supernatural plot against her life.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Florence Guérin, Urbano Barberini, Caroline Munro, Brett Halsey
Votes: 792
aka: The Black Cat
23. Musnahkan Ilmu Santet (1989)
74 min | Horror
After he new husband and father are murdered, Hindun seeks help from a Santet (black magic) Queen. Due to the Santet Queen's influence, Hindun becomes possessed and goes on a vengeance-fueled killing spree.
Director: Maman Firmansyah | Stars: Joice Erna, Hengky Tornando, Rudy Salam, Devi Ivonne
Votes: 13
aka: Black Magic Annihilation
24.
Sabbath (1989)
Episode:
La luna negra
(1989)
90 min | Horror
In just a couple of days, Eva conceives a daughter, divorces her husband Adrián because of infidelity, and runs over an enigmatic woman who crosses her path in the middle of the night. To ... See full summary »
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: Lydia Bosch, Fernando Guillén, Emma Suárez, Jose Coronado
Votes: 131
aka: The Black Moon
25. Black Past (1989 Video)
85 min | Horror
Tommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.
Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Olaf Ittenbach, Andrea Arbter, André Stryi, Alfons Sigllechner
Votes: 797
26. Black Rain (1989)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 3,967
27. Black Rainbow (1989)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
A medium has a vision of a hit-man killing his target. The vision comes true, and the same hit-man is assigned to kill her. Her drunk father/manager doesn't believe she has the gift, and a curious journalist tries to protect her.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Mark Joy
Votes: 2,017
28. Blades (1989)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Horror
Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.
Director: Thomas R. Rondinella | Stars: Robert North, Jeremy Whelan, Victoria Scott, Holly Stevenson
Votes: 1,171
29. Blind Faith (1989)
R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Based upon the true story of Philadelphia sex killer Gary Heidnik, BLIND FAITH follows the investigation of his grisly crimes through the eyes of Detective Will Lindsay and criminal ... See full summary »
Director: Dean Wilson | Stars: Eric Gunn, Doris Quest, Kevin Yon, Lynne Brown
Votes: 34
30. Blind Fear (1989)
R | 87 min | Crime, Thriller
Alone, unarmed, and blind, a beautiful young woman awakes to a deadly terror. The abandoned country inn where she is spending the night has become a way station for three psychopathic killers.
Director: Tom Berry | Stars: Shelley Hack, Jack Langedijk, Kim Coates, Heidi von Palleske
Votes: 214
31. Bloodbath in Psycho Town (1989)
R | 87 min | Horror
A filmschool project becomes an exercise in murder as video demons take the students on a grim journey into subliminal psychic nightmares that travel the dark and lost highways of their tormented souls.
Director: Alessandro De Gaetano | Stars: Ron Arragon, Donna Baltron, Dave Elliott, Pam Martin
Votes: 189
aka: Video Demons Do Psychotown
32. Blood Nasty (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Horror
Roy is killed by a couple of jewel thieves and then brought back to life and possessed by deceased serial killer "Blade". He returns home and his mother is not very happy to see him as she ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Gabai, Robert Strauss | Stars: Todd McCammon, Cathrine Grace, Allison Barron, Richard Gabai
Votes: 202
33. Blood Ritual (1989)
92 min | Horror
The cult is active. The police set up a task force to conduct research and the Caravan is responsible for it. Rich girl Jenny has changed her temperament recently and is very surly with her father.
Director: Yuen Ching Lee | Stars: Norman Chu, Gina Lam, Chung-Kin Chan, Wing Cho
Votes: 51
aka Blood Ritual
34. Krvopijci (1989)
86 min | Comedy, Horror
The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is... See full summary »
Director: Dejan Sorak | Stars: Danilo Lazovic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Maro Martinovic, Semka Sokolovic-Bertok
Votes: 141
aka: Bloodsuckers
35. Bloody Psycho (1989 TV Movie)
90 min | Horror
Dr Vogler is brought in to provide to the slightly sadistic, wheelchair-bound Mrs Rezzori at her castle.
Director: Leandro Lucchetti | Stars: Peter Hintz, Louise Kamsteeg, Brigitte Christensen, Sacha Darwin
Votes: 213
36. The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude (1989 Video)
83 min | Horror
A murderer shoots a snuff film on rented equipment from a local video store, but accidentally returns the equipment to the store with the tape still inside the camera.
Director: Zachary Snygg | Stars: Jared Bushansky, The Duke, Abad Kaleel, Spencer Snygg
Votes: 78
37. Blue Vengeance (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Considered too dangerous to be on the force, ex-cop Mickey McCardle is tormented by the brutal murder of his partner. When a serial killer begins to stalk the streets of New York, McCardle ... See full summary »
Directors: J. Christian Ingvordsen, Danny Kuchuck | Stars: J. Christian Ingvordsen, John Weiner, Garland Hunter, Tony Kruk
Votes: 249
38. Bondage Ecstasy (1989)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
This gay-themed pink film deals with an abused man who seems to turn into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Osamu Fukada, Kyôko Hashimoto, Makoto Hirose, Kiyomi Itô
Votes: 71
39. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio
Votes: 17,594
40. The 'Burbs (1989)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman
Votes: 83,575 | Gross: $36.60M
41. Burning Sensation (1989)
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A firefighter savages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer who was killed in a stage fire 30 years before. Grateful for... See full summary »
Director: Wu Ma | Stars: Kenny Bee, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Wu Ma, Yin San Lai
Votes: 87
aka: Burning Sensation
42. Butts Motel (1989 Video)
X | 80 min | Adult, Comedy, Horror
The back roads lead to Butts' Motel where inn keeper Norman Butts proves to be a real Peeping Tom.
Director: Scotty Fox | Stars: Carol Cummings, Jerry Butler, Frankie Leigh, Marc Wallice
Votes: 22
43. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avocado supplies, recruits feminist professor Margo Hunt to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only good as a source of food.
Director: J.F. Lawton | Stars: Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher, Karen M. Waldron, Adrienne Barbeau
Votes: 3,466
44.
Nightmare Classics (1989)
Episode:
Carmilla
(1989)
51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Ione Skye, Meg Tilly, Armelia McQueen, John Doolittle
Votes: 190
45. Celia (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey
Votes: 1,504
aka Celia: Child of Terror
46. The Cellar (1988)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror
A family moves into an old house in the Texas desert that is haunted by a Native American curse in the form of a ferocious creature that dwells underground.
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Suzanne Savoy, Ford Rainey
Votes: 970
47. Child of the Sabbat (1989 Video)
59 min | Horror
Unsolved child abductions linked with covert satanic cults and "virgin sacrifice" inspired this 1989 controversial re-enactment which concludes with an ver batum, esoteric Luciferian ritual.
Director: Louis Ferriol | Stars: Suzanne Scott, Bob Rose, Beverly Frances, Roseanne Labita
Votes: 29
48. Anak ng demonyo (1989)
103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The new Antichrist is born in the person of Satan's son with a mortal woman.
Director: Mauro Gia Samonte | Stars: Ian Veneracion, Jennifer Sevilla, Ricky Belmonte, Liza Lorena
Votes: 23
aka: Children of the Devil or The Devil's Son.
49. The Chilling (1989)
R | 90 min | Horror
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
Directors: Deland Nuse, Jack A. Sunseri | Stars: Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty, Troy Donahue, Jack De Rieux
Votes: 677
50. Xiao Xia Long Juan Feng (1989)
88 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Chih-Cheng Wang | Stars: Jack Long, Yu-Niang Chai, Chih-Lung Chen, Chien-you Kan
Votes: 14
aka: Chivalric Tornado or Vampire Strikes Back.
51. Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
A gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave, and those still alive in the town.
Director: Dan Hoskins | Stars: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff, Vicki Frederick
Votes: 2,089
52. C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
Director: David Irving | Stars: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 4,038
53. The Church (1989)
R | 102 min | Horror
An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Barbara Cupisti
Votes: 8,900
54. Clownhouse (1989)
R | 81 min | Horror
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jerome West
Votes: 5,121
55. Cold Light of Day (1990)
80 min | Biography, Crime, Horror
Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
Director: Fhiona-Louise | Stars: Bob Flag, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Geoffrey Greenhill, Mark Hawkins
Votes: 418
56. Communion (1989)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
On December 26th Whitley Strieber has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a dream at all.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas
Votes: 7,562 | Gross: $1.92M
57. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Votes: 41,769 | Gross: $7.72M
58. O komis... Tsakonas (1989 Video)
99 min | Comedy
A cult parted from members of the family of the first Romanian Dracula, decides who, will be in charge of each country's Dracula position. Change is needed in Greece, so they choose to go ... See full summary »
Director: Takis Simonetatos | Stars: Kostas Tsakonas, Vera Gouma, Franco Alfonso, Giouli Iliopoulou
Votes: 33
aka: Count Tsakona and His Draculettes
59. Crime of Crimes (1989)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
Director: Alfredo Zacarías | Stars: Richard Yniguez, Jeff Celentano, Aldo Ray, David Carradine
Votes: 50
60. Criminal Act (1989)
R | 93 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.
Director: Mark Byers | Stars: Catherine Bach, Charlene Dallas, Nicholas Guest, John Saxon
Votes: 231
61. Curfew (1989)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them.
Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, John Putch, Frank Miller
Votes: 675
62. Curse II: The Bite (1989)
R | 98 min | Horror
After being bitten by a radioactive snake, a young man begins to spawn snake-like creatures with a vicious, murdeous nature.
Director: Federico Prosperi | Stars: Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck, Jamie Farr, Savina Gersak
Votes: 1,573
63. Curse of the Zombie (1989)
78 min | Horror
Archaeologists looking for artifacts in Thailand meet black magic and zombies sent by an evil Shaman..
Director: Hao Li | Stars: Siu-Kwan Lau, Na An, Ah-Jiu, Tak Bei
Votes: 38
64. Cutting Class (1989)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
Director: Rospo Pallenberg | Stars: Donovan Leitch Jr., Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 5,918
65. Dance of the Damned (1989)
R | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life... See full summary »
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Starr Andreeff, Cyril O'Reilly, Debbie Nassar, Maria Ford
Votes: 562
66. Dark Heritage (1989)
94 min | Horror
Reporter Clint Harrison is sent to investigate a massacre at a Louisiana campground and finds that it may be linked to the Dansen clan an old local family thought to have died out years ago.
Director: David McCormick | Stars: Mark LaCour, Tim Verkaik, Eddie Moore, Joan Parmelee
Votes: 351
67. Darkroom (1989)
85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Looking for revenge for past incestuous experiences, a slasher invades a lonely farmhouse.
Directors: Terrence O'Hara, Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Aarin Teich, Jill Pierce, Jeff Arbaugh, Sara Lee Wade
Votes: 646
68. Dark Tower (1987)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.
Directors: Freddie Francis, Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 1,256
69. Dead Calm (1989)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar
Votes: 43,720 | Gross: $7.83M
70. Khooni Murdaa (1989)
127 min | Horror
After accidentally killed by some college students, an obsessive lover returns as a living dead and starts killing them one by one.
Director: Mohan Bhakri | Stars: Deepak Parashar, Javed Khan, Sripradha, Shagufta Ali
Votes: 52
aka: Deadly Corpse
71. Deadly Embrace (1989 Video)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Thriller
The pulsating, passion-driven story of a man, his wife, and the lovers they play their nasty cat and mouse games with. Like repelling magnets, obsessive passion drives them apart as a ... See full summary »
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Jack Carter, Mindi Miller, Linnea Quigley
Votes: 421
72. Deadly Obsession (1988)
R | 95 min | Thriller
A psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars.
Director: Jenõ Hódi | Stars: Jeffrey R. Iorio, Joe Paradise, Darnell Martin, Martin Haber
Votes: 86
73. The Dead Next Door (1989)
Unrated | 78 min | Horror
An elite anti-Zombie team is assembled by the Government to cope with an ever-growing undead infection and the religious cult zealots who fanatically protect the festering foes.
Director: J.R. Bookwalter | Stars: Pete Ferry, Bogdan Pecic, Michael Grossi, Jolie Jackunas
Votes: 3,407
74. The Dead Pit (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, Danny Gochnauer
Votes: 2,922
75. Dear Diary (1989)
103 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Two teen stories in one film starring the talented Herbert Bautista. In one story (Dear Party Line), he is a houseboy who strikes up a friendship with a girl over the phone. In another ... See full summary »
Directors: Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara, Leroy Salvador | Stars: Herbert Bautista, Gelli De Belen, Jigo Garcia, Gloria Sevilla
Votes: 33
76. Death Doll (1989)
82 min | Horror
A woman is stalked by a killer who is obsessed with leaving dolls at the scene of the crime.
Director: William Mims | Stars: Andrea Walters, William Dance, Jennifer Davis, Philip Boatwright
Votes: 99
77. Death in Focus (1989 Video)
74 min | Documentary, War
Death in all its faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald, to the devastation of Hiroshima, to the political assassinations of the second half of the 20th century, to the bloody ... See full summary »
Director: Elvis Boorman | Stars: Karl Koch, Paul W. Tibbets Jr., Ne Win, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 12
78. Death Spa (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
Gruesome deaths begin to occur at a hip Los Angeles health club.
Director: Michael Fischa | Stars: William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, Merritt Butrick, Robert Lipton
Votes: 3,483
79. Deathwalkers (1989)
R | 85 min | Horror
Director: Joe Ford | Stars: A.M. Ford, Ashley Hayden, John Lambert, Joe Todd
Votes: 28
80. DeepStar Six (1989)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 13,241 | Gross: $8.14M
81.
Sabbath (1989)
Episode:
The Mask of Satan
(1989)
94 min | Horror
Loosely based on Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers get lost in the mountains, and come across the snowy tomb of a centuries-old witch. They accidentally awaken the witch's vengeful spirit, who then proceeds to possess them one by one.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Giovanni Guidelli, Debora Caprioglio, Stanko Molnar, Mary Sellers
Votes: 378
aka: Demons 5: The Devil's Veil
82. Dr. Alien (1989)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A sexy substitute teacher replaces a teacher who was killed by a UFO encounter, but her research on a nerdy student is now making him a lady magnet.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Billy Jayne, Judy Landers, Olivia Barash, Stuart Fratkin
Votes: 1,304
83. Dr. Caligari (1989)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The granddaughter of an infamous doctor experiments with hormone and shock therapies at her asylum for the insane.
Director: Stephen Sayadian | Stars: Madeleine Reynal, Fox Harris, Laura Albert, Jennifer Balgobin
Votes: 1,455
84. Huwag kang hahalik sa diablo (1989)
Drama, Horror
THIS IS A HORROR-SUSPENSE FILM WHERE A YOUNG SEES ON THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT EITHER THE MAN SHE WILL EVENTUALLY MARRY OR THE DEVIL INCARNATE HIMSELF.
Director: Mauro Gia Samonte | Stars: Gabby Concepcion, Gloria Romero, Ronaldo Valdez, Tina Paner
Votes: 19
aka: Don't Kiss the Devil
85. Kageki honban: Midareru (1989)
54 min | Horror
Followed by two guys in a van, two girls find themselves in a secluded country house. Then, they are forced to dine with a perverted grandpa on a wheelchair.
Director: Sachi Hamano | Stars: Kyôko Sawamura, Natsuki Yamamoto, Kan'ichi Hiraga, Saki Kurihara
Votes: 39
aka: Drifting Into Chaos
86. El vampiro teporocho (1990)
Comedy, Horror
A vampire is sent into outer space by 3 scientists but his rocket ship lands on Mexico City where he meets different people and has comedic adventures.
Director: Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Stars: Pedro Weber 'Chatanuga', Charly Valentino, Humberto Herrera, Gabriela Goldsmith
Votes: 28
aka: The Drunk Vampire
87. Dungeon of Death (1989 Video)
82 min | Horror
Director: Gary Whitson | Stars: Launa Kane, Clancy McCauley, Chris Stonage
88. The Edge (1989)
25 min | Drama, Thriller
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher (Barry Sattels), who ... See full summary »
Stars: Barry Sattels, Rutger Hauer, Christian Slater, Brad Davis
Votes: 65
89. Edge of Sanity (1989)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Kikoïne | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Ward, David Lodge
Votes: 1,806 | Gross: $0.10M
90. Elves (1989)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror
A woman finds she is part of a Nazi breeding experiment with elves to create supermen. She and friends are trapped in a store with an elf. Only a renegade Santa Claus can save them.
Director: Jeffrey Mandel | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund, Borah Silver
Votes: 1,801
91. Empire of Madness (1989 Video)
86 min | Documentary, Horror
Director: M. Dixon Causey | Stars: Paula Wilson, George Montgomery, Zodia
Votes: 50
92. Encounter of the Spooky Kind II (1989)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive... See full summary »
Director: Ricky Lau | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ching-Ying Lam, Hoi Mang, Ha Huang
Votes: 465
aka: Encounters of the Spooky Kind 2
93. Enemy Unseen (1989)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A couple of young scientists, Mel Noble and Roxeanne Tangent, travel to an island in Africa thought to be deserted in search of crocodile life, when African Natives storm the camp and ... See full summary »
Director: Elmo de Witt | Stars: Vernon Wells, Stack Pierce, Angela O'Neill, Ken Gampu
Votes: 88
94. Luna di sangue (1989)
95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A black-gloved killer is on the prowl.
Director: Enzo Milioni | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Zora Kerova, Barbara Blasko, Alessandro Freyberger
Votes: 80
aka: Escape from Death
95. Ballet (1989)
101 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 825
96. The Evil Below (1989)
R | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.
Directors: Jean-Claude Dubois, Wayne Crawford | Stars: Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, Sheri Able, Ted Le Plat
Votes: 357
97.
Nightmare Classics (1989)
Episode:
The Eyes of the Panther
(1989)
60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A crusty Old West hermit relates the story of the love of his life, Irene. Before her birth, Irene's family was visited by a mysterious panther, which has followed them through the years, ... See full summary »
Director: Noel Black | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Daphne Zuniga, John Stockwell, Jeb Brown
Votes: 37
98. Faces of Horror (1989 Video)
Horror
Although marketed as a "Faces of Death" type of documentary video, this is actually a compilation of scenes--in no particular order--from three different public-domain pictures that were ... See full summary »
Votes: 17
99. Family Reunion (1989)
88 min | Horror
A family on Christmas vacation visits a desert town called Sutterville, where a massacre had been committed 40 years prior, and discovers they had something to do with it. Meanwhile, the local police arrests a mysterious drifter.
Director: Michael Hawes | Stars: Mel Novak, Pam Phillips, Jack Starrett, John Andes
Votes: 475
100. Fatal Exposure (1989)
R | 83 min | Horror
The great grandson of the infamous Jack The Ripper is a photographer who murders women in bizarre ways. He photographs them and drinks their blood in order to increase his sexual potency. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter B. Good | Stars: Blake Bahner, Ena O'Rourke, Dan Schmale, Julie Austin
Votes: 134
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