Fantastic Sci-Fi From The 1980s!...
by azathothpwiggins | created - 16 Nov 2021 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicAs sci-fi evolved, the differences between the decades became obvious. The '80s definitely had a different take on the genre. Here are some excellent examples. Some are classics, others are not. Some are just plain awful! You decide which are which!...
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1. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,649 | Gross: $19.85M
2. Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
PG | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here.
Directors: Jimmy T. Murakami, Roger Corman | Stars: George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Richard Thomas, John Saxon
Votes: 10,225
3. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub
Votes: 10,514
4. Alligator (1980)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger
Votes: 15,877
5. 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: 5,298
6. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras
Votes: 5,927
7. Galaxina (1980)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten
Votes: 3,430
8. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,734
9. Blood Beach (1980)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Something is attacking and killing people on the beach. David and Mariana, old friends, search for clues where they played as kids to uncover the mysterious creature.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young, Otis Young
Votes: 2,861
10. The Children (1980)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Director: Max Kalmanowicz | Stars: Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett, Shannon Bolin
Votes: 2,749
11. Scared to Death (1980)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ... See full summary »
Director: William Malone | Stars: John Stinson, Diana Davidson, David Moses, Toni Jannotta
Votes: 1,140
12. The Return (1980)
Not Rated | 91 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In New Mexico, an alien spacecraft abducts two young children and an old man. 25 years later, the children are returned as adults to the same town now beset by strange cattle mutilations.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau, Raymond Burr
Votes: 851
13. The Alien Dead (1980)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A meteor hits a houseboat, turning its occupants into zombies feeding on alligators. As reptiles dwindle, they target townspeople. A scientist investigates disappearances caused by the undead houseboat dwellers.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey
Votes: 1,274
14. Monstroid (1980)
R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Directors: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: James Mitchum, John Carradine, Philip Carey, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 863
15. Island Claws (1980)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
Director: Hernan Cardenas | Stars: Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot, Jo McDonnell
Votes: 604
16. Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An investigate reporter arrives in the suburb of Stepford to dig up a news story about its low crime and divorce rates and discovers the horrific secret behind the women's docile and submissive nature.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Sharon Gless, Julie Kavner, Audra Lindley, Don Johnson
Votes: 508
17. Escape from New York (1981)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 157,579 | Gross: $25.24M
18. Scanners (1981)
R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 61,777 | Gross: $14.23M
19. 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: 8,899
20. 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: 4,313
21. Strange Behavior (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 2,411
22. Frankenstein Island (1981)
PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Christopher
Votes: 1,302
23. Escape from Galaxy 3 (1981)
92 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
The crew of a space ship confronts an evil galactic ruler out to rule the universe.
Directors: Bitto Albertini, Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Sherry Buchanan, Fausto Di Bella, Don Powell, Chris Avram
Votes: 569
24. Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake (1980)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
When Kelly Morgan was 11 years old he had a terrifying encounter with Rana, a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake. The creature killed his father and many other people ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Paul Callaway, Richard Lange, Glenn Scherer, Brad Ellingson
Votes: 616
25. 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: 466,841 | Gross: $13.78M
26. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie
Votes: 61,014 | Gross: $14.40M
27. Swamp Thing (1982)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess
Votes: 16,349
28. Parasite (1982)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic USA, a doctor/scientist infected with a new strain of parasite ends up in a small desert town, trying to find a cure.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson
Votes: 3,071 | Gross: $7.00M
29. 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: 6,298
30. 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: 8,143
31. Nightbeast (1982)
R | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A creature from outer space crash lands in a small town and starts killing people.
Directors: Don Dohler, Dave Geatty | Stars: Tom Griffith, Jamie Zemarel, Karin Kardian, George Stover
Votes: 2,261
32. The Sender (1982)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him, or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him, but his mother gets in the way.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: Kathryn Harrold, Zeljko Ivanek, Shirley Knight, Paul Freeman
Votes: 2,211 | Gross: $1.05M
33. Bakterion (1982)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.
Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci, José Lifante
Votes: 879
34. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 103,030 | Gross: $2.12M
35. The Dead Zone (1983)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom
Votes: 77,341 | Gross: $20.77M
36. 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: 5,359
37. Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983)
TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Dino Conti
Votes: 1,397
38. Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kanakis
Votes: 3,094
39. 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: 3,450 | Gross: $1.36M
40. Escape from the Bronx (1983)
R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rag-tag group of people must fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici, Giancarlo Prete
Votes: 3,038 | Gross: $1.41M
41. Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 115 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland
Votes: 1,296
42. Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Ian Serra, Nina Ferrer, Susana Bequer, Sara Palmer
Votes: 4,763
43. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 924,495 | Gross: $38.40M
44. Night of the Comet (1984)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 24,153 | Gross: $14.42M
45. C.H.U.D. (1984)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
Director: Douglas Cheek | Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist
Votes: 13,975 | Gross: $4.65M
46. Trancers (1984)
PG-13 | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur
Votes: 7,551
47. Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Unrated | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Geretta Geretta, Massimo Vanni, Gianni Franco
Votes: 3,183
48. Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Unrated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
Director: Glen Coburn | Stars: Dan Gallion, Thom Meyers, Charles Coburn, Christopher Heldman
Votes: 733
49. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews
Votes: 68,930 | Gross: $14.24M
50. Re-Animator (1985)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale
Votes: 71,531 | Gross: $2.02M
51. The Stuff (1985)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 18,504
52. 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: 1,827
53. Condor (1985 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Unsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Ray Wise, Wendy Kilbourne, Vic Polizos, James Avery
Votes: 197
54. The Galaxy Invader (1985 Video)
PG | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover, Greg Dohler
Votes: 1,478
55. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 763,350 | Gross: $85.16M
56. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,995 | Gross: $40.46M
57. 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: 39,330 | Gross: $13.17M
58. 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: 30,772 | Gross: $1.26M
59. Chopping Mall (1986)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson
Votes: 17,249
60. Deadly Friend (1986)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey
Votes: 8,742 | Gross: $8.99M
61. 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: 10,592 | Gross: $4.88M
62. 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: 2,642
63. TerrorVision (1986)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
"TerrorVision" is a 1986 horror / science fiction movie; telling the tale of when a family's new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Chad Allen
Votes: 7,771 | Gross: $0.32M
64. Hands of Steel (1986)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman
Votes: 2,876
65. Nightmare Weekend (1986)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
Director: Henri Sala | Stars: Debbie Laster, Dale Midkiff, Debra Hunter, Lori Lewis
Votes: 1,226
66. The Supernaturals (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a... See full summary »
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Nichelle Nichols, Talia Balsam, Bradford Bancroft
Votes: 801
67. Assassin (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 74 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A former government operative is called out of retirement to battle a new super weapon gone bad, a cyborg. Reluctantly, the retired operative trails the cyborg and tries to destroy it.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Robert Conrad, Karen Austin, Richard Young, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 419
68. RoboCop (1987)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox
Votes: 283,227 | Gross: $53.42M
69. Bad Taste (1987)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett
Votes: 49,130
70. Uninvited (1988 Video)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A cat infected with a genetically engineered virus escapes from a lab and goes on a killing spree, finding its way onboard a shady businessman's yacht loaded with young guests.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: George Kennedy, Alex Cord, Clu Gulager, Toni Hudson
Votes: 2,751
71. The Curse (1987)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 3,882 | Gross: $1.93M
72. The Nest (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Director: Terence H. Winkless | Stars: Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, Terri Treas
Votes: 3,023
73. 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: 2,960 | Gross: $0.01M
74. Timestalkers (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Scott McKenzie, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph from 1886.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 1,542
75. It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island so that they can live out their lives as far away from normal humans as possible without killing them. Enraged by the... See full summary »
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon
Votes: 2,178
76. 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: 145,536 | Gross: $13.01M
77. 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: 43,531 | Gross: $8.25M
78. 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: 45,502 | Gross: $15.63M
79. 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
80. Monkey Shines (1988)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 13,033 | Gross: $5.34M
81. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,737 | Gross: $0.11M
82. Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic world, women warriors battle each other from junkyards to gravel pits as they determine the fate of the entire world.
Director: Robert Hayes | Stars: Persis Khambatta, Kathleen Kinmont, Peggy McIntaggart, James Emery
Votes: 1,098
83. Pulse (1988)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A visiting son tries to warn his father and stepmother that they are being menaced by a living and intelligent pulse of electricity that moves from house to house and terrorizes the residents therein.
Director: Paul Golding | Stars: Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence
Votes: 2,872 | Gross: $0.04M
84. Robowar (1988)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A clone/mix of PREDATOR, RAMBO, and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an international cast, exotic locale and fantastic electronic music.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Reb Brown, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo
Votes: 1,367
85. Nightmare at Noon (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Horror
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.
Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy, Kimberly Beck
Votes: 2,226
86. Mutant War (1988 Video)
82 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The sequel to 'Galaxy Destroyer' which finds our hero Harry Trent wandering Earth's post-apocalyptic landscape full of mutants, monsters, and fragmented human tribes. Harry's attempt to ... See full summary »
Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Steve Bulyga, Jennifer Cates, Mark Deshaies, Cara Lea Holmes
Votes: 313
87. Midnight Movie Massacre (1988)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A Martian begins to attack the patrons and staff of a movie theater during the 1950's as a low budget science fiction film plays on the screen.
Directors: Laurence Jacobs, Mark Stock | Stars: Robert Clarke, Ann Robinson, David Staffer, Tom Hutsler
Votes: 269
88. Leviathan (1989)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,795 | Gross: $15.70M
89. The Terror Within (1989)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When chemical warfare leaves the world barren and filled with mutated monsters, a band of survivors in an underground complex battle one of the creatures that was able to break in.
Director: Thierry Notz | Stars: Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff, George Kennedy, Terri Treas
Votes: 2,279 | Gross: $0.86M
90. 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: 4,035
91. Nightwish (1989)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A professor and four graduate students journey to a house in the mountains to investigate paranormal activities, but the experiment goes awry after an alien entity starts attacking them.
Director: Bruce R. Cook | Stars: Brian Thompson, Jack Starrett, Elizabeth Kaitan, Alisha Das
Votes: 1,281
92. Food of the Gods II (1989)
R | 91 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Réal Andrews, Stuart Hughes
Votes: 1,413
93. Future Force (1989)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a cop protects a reporter from crooked, renegade cops who think she knows too much about them.
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: David Carradine, Robert Tessier, Anna Rapagna, William Zipp
Votes: 1,180
94. The Bronx Executioner (1989)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic New York City, a cyborg goes on a killing spree.
Director: Vanio Amici | Stars: Gabriele Gori, Margie Newton, Chuck Valenti, Rod Robinson
Votes: 279
95. 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: 29,482 | Gross: $11.60M
96. The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In this tongue-in-cheek sequel, the benevolent bog creature falls for the vegetarian, plant-loving daughter of the evil scientist who created him.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dick Durock, Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Sarah Douglas
Votes: 6,306 | Gross: $0.19M
97. The Passing (1983)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two elderly World War II buddies are living - and dying - together in their small home. One becomes a patient where salvage-worthy, older attributes are combined with useable, younger body parts. He returns, unrecognized by the other.
Director: John Huckert | Stars: James Carroll Plaster, Welton Benjamin Johnson, John Huckert, Lynn Odell
Votes: 297
98. Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon, Peter O'Farrell
Votes: 2,022
99. Impulse (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn, John Karlen
Votes: 1,706 | Gross: $2.50M
100. Slipstream (1989)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton
Votes: 3,066
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