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1988 - 1989 Horror Films

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1988 Brain Damage
One morning a young man wakes to find a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but in return demands human victims.
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald
1988 Cheerleader Camp
An unknown killer is killing off the members of a small cheerleader group at a remote cheerleader training camp.
Director: John Quinn
Stars: Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett
1988 Child's Play
A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon
1988 Curse II The Bite
After a young man is bitten on the hand by a radioactive snake, his hand changes into a lethal snake head, which attacks everyone he comes into contact with.
Director: Frederico Prosperi
Stars: Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck
1988 Curse of the Blue Lights
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
1988 Dead Heat
Two cops are brought back to life to chase down supernatural criminals.
Director: Mark Goldblatt
Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo
1988 Dream Demon
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
1988 Evil Laugh
A group of Med students fix up an old house over a weekend. Where a mass murder occurred 10 years earlier. Mayhem ensues.
Director: Dominick Brascia
Stars: Ashlyn Gere, Steven Baio
1988 Fright Night II
Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent from the original Fright Night must face more vampires out for revenge.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Stars: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall
1988 Hellbound Hellraiser II
Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.
Director: Tony Randel
Stars: Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence
1988 Hobgoblins
A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.
Director: Rick Sloane
Stars: Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan
1988 Iced
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
Director: Jeff Kwitny
Stars: Debra De Liso, Doug Stevenson
1988 Monkey Shines
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
1988 Necromancer
A schoolgirl is raped by three low-lifes, and is then blackmailed by her attackers to keep her quiet.
Director: Dusty Nelson
Stars: Elizabeth Kaitan, John Tyler
1988 Night of the Demons
On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House" is rumored to be built on an evil patch of land & underground stream.
Director: Kevin Tenney
Stars: Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis
1988 Not of This Earth
A science fiction vampire movie. The Vampire is an emissary from an embattled world near destruction who teleports to Earth to see if they can live here.
Director: Jim Wynorski
Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts
1988 Phantom Brother
A teen-ager is left orphaned by a car crash that wipes out his entire family; he is subsequently haunted by his dead brother.
Director: William Szarka
Stars: John Gigante, Jon Hammer
1988 Pin
In this low-budget descendant of Psycho, Ursula and Leon are sister and brother, living alone, save for a large wooden puppet they call "Pin" (for Pinocchio).
Director: Sandor Stern
Stars: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston
1988 Prison
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
Director: Renny Harlin
Stars: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen
1988 Rabid Grannies
When given a demonic present by their black sheep nephew two kindly old grannies are transformed into demons who proceed to gorily knock-off their greedy relatives.
Director: Emmanuel Kervyn
Stars: Catherine Aymerie, Caroline Braeckman
1988 Ratman
A maniac butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investagation.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo
Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren
1988 Sleepaway Camp II Unhappy Campers
Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways.
Director: Michael A. Simpson
Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez
1988 Slugs
Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community.
Director: Juan Piquer Simón
Stars: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry
1988 The Brain
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program.
Director: Ed Hunt
Stars: Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston
1988 The Kiss
When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a kiss.
Director: Pen Densham
Stars: Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger
1988 The Lair of the White Worm
Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating.
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant
1988 The Nest
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
1988 The Serpent and the Rainbow
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson
1988 Veerana
A beautiful young girl, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust.
Director: Shyam Ramsay
Stars: Hemant Birje, Jasmin
1988 Watchers
Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab.
Director: Jon Hess
Stars: Corey Haim, Michael Ironside
1988 Witchery
When a storm strands a group on a Massachusetts island where the only dwelling is an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress (Knef), the result is the standard horror film as each of the cast is picked off one-by-one.
Director: Fabrizio Laurenti
Stars: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair
1988 Zombi 3
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring
1989 Beasties
The carnage of extraterrestrial crafts landing on an area with many amorous teens.
Director:
Steven Paul Contreras
Stars: Eric C. Bushman, Denise Mora
1989 Beware Children at Play
After several children have gone missing, a writer and a cop decide to get to the bottom of the problem once and for all.
Director: Mik Cribben
Stars: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton
1989 Beyond the Door III
A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan.
Director: Jeff Kwitny
Stars: Mary Kohnert, Bo Svenson
1989 Clownhouse
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
1989 Cutting Class
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
Director: Rospo Pallenberg
Stars: Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt
1989 Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients.
Director: Gérard Kikoïne
Stars: Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence
1989 Elves
A young woman discovers that she is the focus of an evil nazi experiment involving selective breeding and summoned elves, an attempt to create a race of supermen.
Director: Jeffrey Mandel
Stars: Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin
1989 Flesh Eating Mothers
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
Director: James Aviles Martin
Stars: Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht
1989 Grim Prairie Tales
Two travellers, one a well to do young clark on the way to a reunion with his wife, the other a scruffy, feral bounty hunter meet at sundown on a lonely prairie and agree to swap stories to pass the time. This is a portmanteau film featuring four intriguing stories linked by the two story teller's attempts to psych each other out.
Director: Wayne Coe
Stars: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif
1989 Headhunter
A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, and he begins to have an affair with his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community and begins decapitating some people and possessing others--including the cop's wife.
Director: Francis Schaeffer
Stars: Kay Lenz, Wayne Crawford
1989 I, Madman
Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses.
Director: Tibor Takács
Stars: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
1989 Night Life
Archie is a "brain" at a small town high school who works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it.
Director: David Acomba
Stars: Scott Grimes, John Astin
1989 Offerings
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
Director: Christopher Reynolds
Stars: Loretta Leigh Bowman, Elizabeth Greene
1989 Sleepaway Camp III Teenage Wasteland
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.
Director: Michael A. Simpson
Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith
1989 Spontaneous Combustion
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain
1989 The Carpenter
A carpenter, who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple.
Director: David Wellington
Stars: Wings Hauser, Lynne Adams
1989 The House of Clocks
Three lowlife punks are trapped in a posh villa while trying to rob it and become at the mercy of the murderous owners whom have the power to stop and reverse time via their mystical clocks.
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Keith Van Hoven, Karina Huff
1989 Warlock
A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.
Director: Steve Miner
Stars: Julian Sands, Lori Singer