80s Sci-Fi Horror
by timothy-brannan | created - 09 Mar 2018 | updated - 31 Mar 2018 | PublicThese guys are not E.T. or Starman.
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1. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,893 | Gross: $78.90M
2. Breeders (1986)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Manhattan General Hospital admitted a string of young women raped by something otherworldly. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims to find the fiend.
Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Teresa Farley, Lance Lewman, Frances Sherman, Natalie Savage
Votes: 2,640
3. 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: 7,547 | Gross: $1.92M
4. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,295
5. Creature (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 4,683 | Gross: $4.78M
6. Creepozoids (1987)
R | 72 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III. When they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins
Votes: 2,952 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Critters (1986)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes
Votes: 39,294 | Gross: $13.17M
8. 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
9. 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
10. Enemy Mine (1985)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus
Votes: 51,419 | Gross: $4.27M
11. Evils of the Night (1985)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Vacationing teens are systematically kidnapped and taken to a strange, rural hospital, run by a mysterious group that needs their blood.
Director: Mardi Rustam | Stars: Neville Brand, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, John Carradine
Votes: 1,823
12. Forbidden World (1982)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Don Olivera, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles
Votes: 6,294
13. From Beyond (1986)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree
Votes: 30,726 | Gross: $1.26M
14. Galaxy of Terror (1981)
R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations.
Director: Bruce D. Clark | Stars: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens
Votes: 8,886
15. Inseminoid (1981)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Steven Grives
Votes: 4,310
16. Invaders from Mars (1986)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman
Votes: 10,579 | Gross: $4.88M
17. Lifeforce (1985)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 29,451 | Gross: $11.60M
18. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Director: Stephen Chiodo | Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
Votes: 45,451 | Gross: $15.63M
19. Moontrap (1988)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
NASA finds remains of an ancient humanoid race on the Moon that left behind deadly robots.
Director: Robert Dyke | Stars: Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi, Robert Kurcz
Votes: 3,786
20. Nightflyers (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
Director: Robert Collector | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $1.15M
21. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 454,556 | Gross: $59.74M
22. Prey (1977)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour, for a sinister purpose.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen, Sandy Chinney
Votes: 1,567
23. Star Crystal (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Crew members aboard a space ship encounter an alien life form intent on killing them.
Director: Lance Lindsay | Stars: C. Juston Campbell, Faye Bolt, John W. Smith, Taylor Kingsley
Votes: 1,239
24. Strange Invaders (1983)
PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner
Votes: 3,447 | Gross: $1.36M
25. 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: 3,516
26. The Dark (1979)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Someone, or something, is on an indiscriminate killing and mutilation spree during night-time. Frustrated by the clueless police, the father of the first victim is looking for answers, no matter how far fetched they are.
Directors: John 'Bud' Cardos, Tobe Hooper | Stars: William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 1,911
27. The Day Time Ended (1979)
PG | 79 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that transports it back to prehistoric times.
Director: John 'Bud' Cardos | Stars: Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty
Votes: 2,043
28. The Deadly Spawn (1983)
R | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Alien creatures invade a small town and four teenagers, along with a young boy, attempt to escape from them.
Director: Douglas McKeown | Stars: Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler
Votes: 5,355
29. The Hidden (1987)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder
Votes: 22,589 | Gross: $9.75M
30. The Intruder Within (1981 TV Movie)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Drillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they have accidentally brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Chad Everett, Joseph Bottoms, Jennifer Warren, Rockne Tarkington
Votes: 529
31. The Last Starfighter (1984)
PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason
Votes: 45,999 | Gross: $28.73M
32. The Night of the Hunted (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Futuristic asylum residents in a skyscraper suffer insanity, amnesia. Blank-eyed inmates roam halls of "Black Tower" as tension escalates and bodies pile up.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Brigitte Lahaie, Alain Duclos, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau
Votes: 2,092
33. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,348 | Gross: $13.78M
34. The Visitor (1979)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers and her mother become the prize in a battle between good ETs and evil ETs.
Director: Giulio Paradisi | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston
Votes: 4,540
35. They Live (1988)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower
Votes: 145,383 | Gross: $13.01M
36. Time Walker (1982)
PG | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien, buried in King Tut's tomb, terrorizes a college campus.
Director: Tom Kennedy | Stars: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, Robert Random
Votes: 2,193 | Gross: $0.43M
37. Timesweep (1987 Video)
85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of people enter an old movie studio and are suddenly transported through time.
Director: Dan Diefenderfer | Stars: Kevin Brief, Martin English, Sandra Beer, Frank Vrooman
Votes: 147
38. Without Warning (1980)
R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a hunting ground.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Christopher S. Nelson
Votes: 4,699
39. Xtro (1982)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien creature impregnates a woman who gives birth to a man who was abducted by aliens three years ago. The man reconnects with his wife and son for a sinister purpose.
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport | Stars: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d'Abo
Votes: 8,139
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