The '80s had a habit of combining punk rock and horror. Maybe it's because both '80s horror movies and punk rock favored a kind of low-rent DIY approach to making everything from music to monsters. Whatever the reason, punk rock horror movies are few and far between these days - but that doesn't mean they're gone completely.
Prepare to be afraid. Be very afraid. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Horror Movies of the 1980s. WARNING: Contains m
From 'The Fly' to 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' several of the essentials are accounted for here. The '80s were a great decade for horror. Directors like Sam Raimi, John Carpenter and John Landis
The Beyond (1981) A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell. 2. The Evil Dead (1981) Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
The history of horror as a film genre begins with—as with many things in cinema history—the works of George Mellies. Just a few years after the first filmmakers emerged in the mid-1890s, Mellies created “Le Manoir du Diable,” sometimes known in English as “The Haunted Castle” or “ The House of the Devil,” in 1896, and it is
James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s game-changing sci-fi/horror hybrid juices it up for the muscleman ‘80s, injecting tough-talking space Marines, heavy firepower, and Bill Paxton
Gremlins was one of the most popular creature movies in the 80s. The music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, and its theme, "The Gremlin Rag," has become one of the film's legendary hallmarks. The theme was intended to evoke the suspenseful and mischievous nature of the gremlins. Goldsmith later won a Saturn Award for his score. WKcR1VY.
