Horror Films: 1988
by capkronos | created - 10 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 on IMDb:
- Awaken from the Grave / Bangkit Dari Kubur (dir: Dasri Yacob)
- Bloodstained Painting / Lukisan Berlumur Darah (dir: Torro Mergens)
- Love Bites (dir: Marvin Jones)
- Magical Amethyst / Kecubung Sakti (dir: Wisjnu Mouradhy)
- Man Who Sits with the Dead, The / Manusia Penunggu Jenazah (dir: Jopi Burnama)
- Monkey Ngipri / Ngipri Monyet (dir: Liliek Sudjio)
- Satu Suro Night / Malam Satu Suro (dir: Sisworo Gautama Putra)
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1. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 13,996
2. American Gothic (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror
A group of travellers make emergency landing on an island in the Pacific Northwest after their seaplane malfunctioned, and stumble across an isolated and psychopathic family.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Sarah Torgov, Terence Kelly, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay
Votes: 4,545
3. The American Scream (1988)
85 min | Comedy, Horror
Family vacationing in the mountains is terrorized by local wackos.
Director: Mitchell Linden | Stars: Pons Maar, Jennifer Darling, Matt Borlenghi, Riley Weston
Votes: 328
4. Amsterdamned (1988)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Serge-Henri Valcke, Hidde Maas
Votes: 9,477
5. Apartment Zero (1988)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.
Director: Martin Donovan | Stars: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith
Votes: 4,239 | Gross: $0.67M
6. Apprentice to Murder (1988)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The small beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch community is rocked by a series of bizarre events which lead to a web of deception, violence and murder. Apprentice to Murder is a story of infatuation with love, dreams, and out-of-world temptations.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Knut Husebø
Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.47M
7. Baby Doll (1988)
78 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Bang Carlsen | Stars: Mette Munk Plum, Birgit Sadolin, John Hahn-Petersen, Bodil Udsen
Votes: 83
8. Bad Dreams (1988)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron
Votes: 4,355 | Gross: $9.80M
9. Because the Dawn (1988)
40 min | Short, Horror
Marie is a Manhattan vampire thirsting for acceptance and blood, not necessarily in that order. Apparently a renaissance women, she sings the blues, poses for a picture, and rides through ... See full summary »
Director: Amy Goldstein | Stars: Sandy Gray, Gregory Nassif St. John, Edwige, Kate Katcher
Votes: 15
10. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,365 | Gross: $73.71M
11. Blackout (1988)
R | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, and gradually her childhood memories return; a childhood with incest and violence.
Director: Doug Adams | Stars: Gail O'Grady, Carol Lynley, Michael Keys Hall, Joseph Gian
Votes: 117
12. Black Roses (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Music
Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.
Director: John Fasano | Stars: John Martin, Ken Swofford, Sal Viviano, Julie Adams
Votes: 2,645
13. Bless This House (1988)
79 min | Comedy, Horror
Building designer Bill and his family move into a seemingly wonderful house, but not aware of the house is haunted.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Bill Tung, Deborah Dik, Loletta Lee, Kai-Nam Ho
Votes: 341
aka: Bless This House
14. The Blob (1988)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 43,552 | Gross: $8.25M
15. Xue Call ji (1988)
94 min | Action
Ah Mike is in love with Anna and cannot let her go. Anna is in love with Max. Ah Jing is in love with Ah Mike. When they call each other, blood stirs.
Directors: Oli Nicole, Lu Tung | Stars: Siu Chung Mok, Anna Kamiyama, Maria Tung Ling, Huan-Chen Shin
Votes: 15
aka: Blood Call
16. Blood Delirium (1988)
94 min | Horror, Thriller
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Bergonzelli | Stars: John Phillip Law, Gordon Mitchell, Brigitte Christensen, Marco Di Stefano
Votes: 411
aka: Blood Delirium
17. Blood Relations (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror
Thomas takes his beautiful girlfriend to meet his crazy surgion father at a remote mansion and things get out of control a twist ending that will make you love this horror movie.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Jan Rubes, Kevin Hicks, Lydie Denier, Lynne Adams
Votes: 412
18. The Boy from Hell (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror
A teenage boy is hidden at an orphanage by his mother to protect him against his father, who wants to use the boys body to be reborn.
Director: Deryn Warren | Stars: Aarin Teich, Anthony Jenkins, Twink Caplan, Alexandra Kennedy
Votes: 176
aka: Bloodspell
19. B.O.R.N. (1989)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A speeding ambulance abducts three beautiful young women to a sinister medical center where someone is making a killing selling healthy human organs on the black market. The title stands for Body Organ Replacement Network.
Director: Ross Hagen | Stars: Ross Hagen, P.J. Soles, Hoke Howell, William Smith
Votes: 223
20. The Brain (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza
Votes: 3,521
21. Brain Damage (1988)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes
Votes: 13,178
22. The Brainsucker (1988)
Comedy, Horror
A psycho killer uses a corkscrew to stick into the brains of his victims.
Director: Herb Robins | Stars: Jonathan Mittleman, Marjorie Morris, Herb Robins, Dave Stevens
Votes: 93
23. Brothers in Arms (1988)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hill-billies, when they save a girl from rape.
Director: George Bloom | Stars: Todd Allen, Charles Grant, Dedee Pfeiffer, Jack Starrett
Votes: 121
24. Cameron's Closet (1988)
R | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror
A father (Tab Hunter) who experiments with his son's (Scott Curtis) psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann
Votes: 1,137 | Gross: $0.14M
25. Cannibal Campout (1988 Video)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
Four teenagers on an outing in the woods are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals.
Directors: Tom Fisher, Jon McBride | Stars: Jon McBride, Amy Chludzinski, Christopher A. Granger, Gene Robbins
Votes: 611
26. Cannibal Curse (1988)
Unrated | 85 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A woman tries to attract her reincarnated lover from her previous life but eventually turns to the aid of an evil sorcerer who rules over a tribe of cannibal midgets.
Director: Yeung Kong | Stars: Maria Isabel Lopez, Chi-Wai Yu, Susan Brandy, Lap Ban Chan
Votes: 92
aka: Cannibal Curse
27. Carmilla: Le coeur pétrifié (1988 TV Movie)
Horror
Director: Paul Planchon | Stars: Aurelle Doazan, Emmanuelle Meyssignac, Marc Michel, Yvette Stahl
Votes: 7
aka: Carmilla: The Petrified Heart
28. The Carpenter (1988)
R | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A mad woman and her cheating husband hire men to fix up their new house. Mysterious carpenter, Ed, becomes her guardian angel, but he is actually an executed killer whose spirit has returned to finish the dream house he once started.
Director: David Wellington | Stars: Wings Hauser, Lynne Adams, Pierre Lenoir, Barbara Jones
Votes: 676
29. The Carrier (1988)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan J. White | Stars: Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon, Paul Silverman
Votes: 590
30. Cellar Dweller (1987)
R | 77 min | Fantasy, Horror
A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood
Votes: 3,028
31. Kabrastan (1988)
Not Rated | 135 min | Horror
Dr William Dsouza a cardiologist wants to experiment on heart transplant on his patients for which he needs a fresh heart in order to gain success in his experiment he kills person called ... See full summary »
Director: Mohan Bhakri | Stars: Hemant Birje, Kamna, Javed Khan, Kunika Sadanand
Votes: 51
aka: Cemetery
32. Cemetery High (1988)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A group of High School girls with guns go on a killing spree. They are intent on ridding the world of scummy men.
Director: Gorman Bechard | Stars: Debi Thibeault, Karen Nielsen, Lisa Schmidt, Simone Reyes
Votes: 439
33. Child's Play (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Votes: 116,817 | Gross: $33.24M
34. The Chair (1988)
R | 100 min | Horror
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
Director: Waldemar Korzeniowsky | Stars: James Coco, Trini Alvarado, Paul Benedict, Gary McCleery
Votes: 261
35. Cheerleader Camp (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A group of cheerleaders become the targets of an unknown killer at a remote summer camp.
Director: John Quinn | Stars: Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Lucinda Dickey, Lorie Griffin
Votes: 3,962
36. Kumander Bawang (1988)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
HERBERT BAUTISTA IS A YOUNG aswang-buster SUPERHERO IN THIS FARCE, THAT COMBINES COMEDY, HORROR, FOLKLORE,
Director: Ramje | Stars: Herbert Bautista, Mat Ranillo III, Matet De Leon, Mia Pratts
Votes: 72
aka: Commander Garlic
37. Critters 2 (1988)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Eggs of the small but voracious alien creatures called Crites are left behind on earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the small farm town of Grover's Bend.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper
Votes: 16,856 | Gross: $3.81M
38. Crocodile Fury (1988)
87 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Monica, a witch vampire, has the power to invade with vampires. They can destroy everything that exists on earth. The situation worsens when Monica is working with Cooper, the master of the seas.
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Nina Bannen, Lucas Byrne, Trudy Calder, Sorapong Chatree
Votes: 92
39. Der Fluch (1988)
88 min | Mystery, Thriller
When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they loose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who ... See full summary »
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Dominic Raacke, Barbara May, Romina Nowack, Ortrud Beginnen
Votes: 158
aka: The Curse
40. Catacombs (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
A demon is trapped in a monastery. 400 years later a young girl arrives at the monastery to study.
Director: David Schmoeller | Stars: Timothy Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy West, Laura Schaefer
Votes: 936
aka: Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice
41. Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
R | 93 min | Horror
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
Director: John Henry Johnson | Stars: Brent Ritter, Bettina Julius, Clayton A. McCaw, Patrick Keller
Votes: 411
42. Curse of the Queerwolf (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
After being bitten by what he thinks is a transvestite, Larry starts having nightmares about hillbillies, ominous visits from an old gypsy woman, and having the strangest reactions to the full moon...
Director: Mark Pirro | Stars: Michael Palazzolo, Kent Butler, Taylor Whitney, Cynthia Brownell
Votes: 332
43. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
G | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.
Directors: Greg Ford, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Terry Lennon, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Roy Firestone, B.J. Ward
Votes: 2,672
44. Dangerous Love (1988)
R | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
Someone is videotaping & killing members of a video dating club.
Director: Marty Ollstein | Stars: Lawrence Monoson, Brenda Bakke, Angelyne, Peter Marc Jacobson
Votes: 230
45. Dawn of an Evil Millennium (1988)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Horror
Epic Super-8 short about a demon summoned to Earth who takes command of a souped-up 1970 Oldsmobile and goes on a road-kill rampage.
Director: Damon Packard | Stars: Ronald Lacey, Miles O'Keeffe, Damon Packard
Votes: 174
46. The Deacon of Dark River (1988 TV Movie)
80 min | Horror
Director: Egill Eðvarðsson | Stars: Valdimar Örn Flygenring, Arnar Jónsson, Sigurður Karlsson, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir
Original title: Djákninn
47. Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Crime, Horror
One last job separates the leader of the Ravens gang from an early retirement. When he finds his girlfriend beaten to death by members of a rival gang, he seeks revenge, knowing that he may be dead by dawn. Will more blood bring her back?
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Paul Harper, Jim Van Bebber, Megan Murphy, Ric Walker
Votes: 2,686
48. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,240 | Gross: $3.59M
49. Deadly Dreams (1988)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
From the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Kristine Peterson | Stars: Mitchell Anderson, Juliette Cummins, Xander Berkeley, Thom Babbes
Votes: 508
50. Dead Man Walking (1988)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
Director: Gregory Dark | Stars: Wings Hauser, Brion James, Pamela Ludwig, Leland Crooke
Votes: 391
51. Graverobbers (1988)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
Cute waitress/hooker is romanced and wed to handsome stranger/funeral director. He, as well as most of the town prefer their women dead. She is the obvious candidate for that position, as ... See full summary »
Director: Straw Weisman | Stars: Elizabeth Mannino, Jerry Rector, David Gregory, Larry Bockius
Votes: 403
52. Dead Ringers (1988)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon
Votes: 53,616 | Gross: $9.13M
53. Death by Dialogue (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
A guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set. Pretty soon people start being killed in the manner they are in the script of the movie being filmed next door.
Director: Thomas Dewier | Stars: Ken Sagoes, Laura Albert, Lenny Delducca, Kelly Sullivan
Votes: 385
54. Death Faces IV (1988 Video)
87 min | Documentary, Horror
Directors: Countess Victoria Bloodhart, Steve Whight | Stars: Bizarro Blackstone, Damian B. Gravenhorse, Clyde Barrow, John Dillinger
Votes: 63
55. Death Nurse 2 (1988 Video)
56 min | Horror
That crazy killer nurse is at it again! Edith Mortley continues to slay more and more dumbfounded patients, turning them into rat food.
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Jane Lambert, Robert Copple, George 'Buck' Flower, Ginna Martine
Votes: 158
56. Death Row Diner (1988)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror
A wealthy Hollywood tycoon is framed for murder and sent to the electric chair without the customary last dinner. Years later he comes back looking for revenge, and he's hungry.
Director: D3 | Stars: John Henry Richardson, Michelle Bauer, John Content, Salvatore Richichi
Votes: 180
57. Deep Space (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship with a hideous monster with an incredible appetite for flesh crashes to Earth. Unsuspecting policemen Ian Mclemore and Jerry Merris investigate the wreckage. They discover several small pods, which they remove.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson, Ron Glass
Votes: 1,100
58. Demon City Shinjuku (1988 Video)
TV-MA | 82 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
A young swordsman and the daughter of a political Messiah enter a ravaged Shinjuku, Tokyo, to stop the man who killed the former's father from opening a portal to a world of demons.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Hideyuki Hori, Hiromi Tsuru, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyôko Tongû
Votes: 3,682
Original title: Makaitoshi Shinjuku. Animated.
59. Siluman kera (1988)
Horror
Director: M. Abnar Romli | Stars: Barry Prima, Advent Bangun, Tiara Jacquelina, Alba Fuad
Votes: 9
aka: Demon Monkey
60. Demonwarp (1988)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.
Director: Emmett Alston | Stars: George Kennedy, David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, Billy Jayne
Votes: 752
61. Demon Warrior (1988)
85 min | Horror
A group of young friends go hunting during their holidays near a small town in Texas, where the father of one of them own a piece of land. But the place has a legend. Years ago the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Patterson | Stars: Wiley M. Pickett, Leslie Mullin, Jon Langione, John Garrett
Votes: 180
62. Destroyer (1988)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick.
Director: Robert Kirk | Stars: Deborah Foreman, Clayton Rohner, Lyle Alzado, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 1,031
63. Meng gui zhou (1988)
91 min | Horror
A young couple listen to the advice of their uncle, a Taoist priest. He gives them a long and totally inscrutable spiel, possibly about avoiding demons, though it's hard to tell. Then the ... See full summary »
Director: Lu-Po Tu | Stars: Emily Chu, Hoi-San Kwan, Feng Ku, Chiang Chou
Votes: 16
Original title: Meng gui zhou.
64. The Devil's Friends (1988)
Drama, Horror
Qamar dies on her wedding night from a random shot. Her husband Jalal decides to take revenge, and resorts to magic in order to reach immortality. He becomes wicked and sinks into sin and everyone decides to get rid of him.
Director: Ahmed Yassine | Stars: Ezzat Abduljawad, Ahmad Abu-Abiyyah, Fouad Ahmed, Naima Al Soghayar
Votes: 53
65. Devil Sorcery (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
"Devil Sorcery" directed by Do Gong-Yue is an entertaining HK black magic film about a wizard who performs many hideous magic rituals.The student of a good wizard decides to get it on with ... See full summary »
Director: Lu-Po Tu | Stars: Chi-Mei Chin, Kwok-Kuen Chan, Yung Chan, Fok-Choi Chan
Votes: 57
aka: Devil Sorcery
66. Dial Help (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Charlotte Lewis, Marcello Modugno, Mattia Sbragia, Carola Stagnaro
Votes: 562
67. Diamond Ninja Force (1988)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
We begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Richard Harrison, Melvin Pitcher, Andy Chworowsky, Pierre Tremblay
Votes: 211
68. The Discarnates (1988)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Atsuko Kawata
Votes: 487
69. Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: David Muir, Michael Ensign, Cathy Cahn, Stacey Travis
Votes: 293
70. Dogra Magra (1988)
109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa
Votes: 601
71. Don't Panic (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of a Ouija board.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Jon Michael Bischof, Gabriela Hassel, Helena Rojo, Jorge Luke
Votes: 1,499
72. Door (1988)
95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Keiko Takahashi, Daijirô Tsutsumi, Shirô Shimomoto, Takuto Yonezu
Votes: 301
73. Dracula's Widow (1988)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
The young owner of a waxworks in Hollywood receives six instead of five ordered chests with Romanian antiques. He does not know that Vanessa, widow of Count Dracula, sleeps in the sixth ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Coppola | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Josef Sommer, Lenny von Dohlen, Marc Coppola
Votes: 682
74. Dream Demon (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.
Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail
Votes: 1,451
75. The Dreaming (1988)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing dreams and finds herself involved in a 200-year-old mystery.
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet, Laurence Clifford
Votes: 386
76. The Drifter (1988)
R | 89 min | Thriller
A young interior designer with a jealous boyfriend has a one-night stand with a handsome drifter who won't go away.
Director: Larry Brand | Stars: Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Al Shannon, Miles O'Keeffe
Votes: 542
77. Edge of the Axe (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Barton Faulks, Christina Marie Lane, Page Mosely, Fred Holliday
Votes: 2,940
78. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
Director: James Signorelli | Stars: Cassandra Peterson, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins, Damita Jo Freeman
Votes: 20,866 | Gross: $5.60M
79. Eob (1988)
105 min | Horror
Governor Heo, worried about a plague that is sweeping through his district, places the blame on the local fortune teller whose charms and amulets failed to ward off the disease. He ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Doo-yong | Stars: Kang Soo-youn, Won Namkung, Kim Yeong-cheol, Yun-kyeong Kim
Votes: 13
80. Epitaph (1987)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
A family must keep moving from town to town because the mother is a psychotic axe murderer who keeps flipping out and murdering people.
Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Natasha Pavlovich, Delores Nascar, Jimmy Williams, Flint Keller
Votes: 286
81. Evil Altar (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror
In the small town of Red Rock, a devil-worshipping cult, in league with the local sheriff, kidnaps victims for sacrifice.
Director: James Winburn | Stars: William Smith, Pepper Martin, Tal Armstrong, Theresa Cooney
Votes: 178
82. Il bosco 1 (1988)
R | 85 min | Horror
The story of a hideous monster who takes the form of a beautiful, seductive woman who in a torrent of special effects, beauty and monster transform into a climax of pure evil. For years ... See full summary »
Director: Andrea Marfori | Stars: Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Diego Ribon, Luciano Crovato, Elena Cantarone
Votes: 644
aka: Evil Clutch
83. Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Unrated | 102 min | Horror
A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa
Votes: 3,802
84. Fair Game (1988)
R | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake.
Director: Mario Orfini | Stars: Trudie Styler, Gregg Henry, Bill Moseley
Votes: 620
85. Fatal Pulse (1988)
90 min | Crime, Thriller, Horror
A girl is killed and raped minutes after fighting with her boyfriend (Jeff) and he left her. Jeff is the assistant of professor Caldwell at the university, and he wanted to return with his ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony J. Christopher | Stars: Michelle McCormick, Ken Roberts, Joe Estevez, Alex Courtney
Votes: 369
86. Fear (1988)
R | 96 min | Action
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert A. Ferretti | Stars: Cliff De Young, Kay Lenz, Zoe Trilling, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 234
87. Almohadón de plumas (1988)
71 min | Horror
Director: Ricardo Islas | Stars: Norma Morgan, Ricardo Islas, Julio López, Alberto Laguna
Votes: 53
aka: Feather Pillow
88. 555 (1988 Video)
90 min | Horror
A psycho dressed as a hippie is killing couples in Lake Front. As the police search for more clues and the body count gets higher, they discover every five years, for five days, the killer ... See full summary »
Director: Wally Koz | Stars: Mara Lynn Bastian, Charles Fuller, Greg Kerouac, Greg Neilson
Votes: 445
89. Vampire Kid II (1988)
92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Chih-Cheng Wang | Stars: Tien-Chi Cheng, Sheng Chiang, Cynthia Khan, Feng Lu
aka: 5 Venoms Versus Wutang
90. Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
Suburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer.
Director: James Aviles Martin | Stars: Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen, Valorie Hubbard
Votes: 1,285
91. Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
Director: Deborah Romare | Stars: Mark Blankfield, Leslie Jordan, Jonathan Farwell, Kathy Shower
Votes: 402
92. The Freddy Krueger Special (1988 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Music
MTV tie-in special for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) featuring v.j. Kevin Seal going in search of Freddy Krueger only to wind up in the maniac's clutches.
Stars: Alice Cooper, Don Dokken, Europe, The Fat Boys
Votes: 89
93. Fresh Kill (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
Leona and Allen unintentionally kill two offenders who have in their wake a lot of "friends". Since that day, the couple begins a slow metamorphosis that involves their existence and their moral values.
Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Pamela Dixon, Jody Jaress, Flint Keller, Tricia Parks
Votes: 126
94. Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Jason Voorhees is accidentally freed from his watery prison by a telekinetic teenager. Now, only she can stop him.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Terry Kiser, Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Susan Blu
Votes: 42,384 | Gross: $19.17M
95. Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
"Fright Night Part 2" is a sequel to "link=tt0089175]". Charley Brewster and the horror host Peter Vincent must face more vampires, out for revenge.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen
Votes: 14,242 | Gross: $2.98M
96. The Garden of Blood (1987)
74 min | Horror, Mystery
Woman gets raped and she suffer trauma for two years; after traveling to another country with her husband and her nurse, she start seeing crime happening every night next door from her ... See full summary »
Director: Ashraf Fahmy | Stars: Ibrahim Abdulraziq, Adel Adham, Ezzat El Alaili, Hosny Abdul Jalil
Votes: 29
97. Through the Fire (1988)
87 min | Horror
A young woman asks a policeman to help her find her missing sister. They find a medallion, sought after by some worshipers of demon Moloch, a beast that may be invoked and wreaks havoc, but can only be stopped with the amulet.
Director: Gary Marcum | Stars: Tamara Hext, Tom Campitelli, Randy Strickland, Billie Carroll
Votes: 303
aka: The Gates of Hell Part II: Dead Awakening
98. The Ghostess with the Mostess (1988 Video)
75 min | Adult
Director: Alex de Renzy | Stars: Aja, Kathryn Reed, Tom Byron, Randy Spears
Votes: 137
99. Ghosthouse (1988)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers, Ron Houck
Votes: 2,959
100. Ghost's Hospital (1988)
90 min | Horror
Director: Lu-Po Tu | Stars: Siu-Lung Leung, Chiung-Hui Tsai, Kwok-Kuen Chan, Paul Che
Votes: 9
aka: Ghost's Hospital
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