Category Archives: Horror

Dead Calm

IMDB Rating: 6.90
6551 votes

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A married couple sail the Pacific Ocean to forget a tragic accident. After a month at sea, they sight a mysterious yacht and are boarded by its lone surviving crew member. When the husband discovers the yacht's terrible secret, the crewman goes wild, kidnapping his wife and taking his ship. Terror on the high seas is center stage as the husband fights to keep the mystery yacht afloat and his wife battles the psychotic who's assumed control of their ship.
Actors
Rae IngramNicole Kidman
John IngramSam Neill
Hughie WarrinerBilly Zane
Also posted in 1989, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Beetle Juice

IMDB Rating: 7.10
24449 votes

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This is the story of Adam and Barbara who live in a beautiful house in New England. One day while driving home they are involved in a terrible auto accident. They manage to walk home only to discover later that they have died and now haunt their house. When their house is purchased by an out of state family, they feel their home is threatened by the over-the-top artists wife and real-estate idea-man husband. Their only relief is the Gothic daughter of the family. Their attempts at scaring the family out of the house are ignored or laughed at. Finally they fall to the temptation to use the people-exorcizer Beetle Juice. When they find his tactics too dangerous, they attempt to contain him and save the family they were trying to boot.
Actors
AdamAlec Baldwin
BarbaraGeena Davis
Jane ButterfieldAnnie McEnroe
Also posted in 1988, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

IMDB Rating: 5.80
4236 votes

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After having her father and perverse stepmother killed by the cenobites, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Lawrence) is sent to a psychiatric hospital. Even after trying to convince the authorities of what really happened with her family, nobody believes in her version of the history and they decide to place her in the institute, so that she rests and relaxes a little bit. The hospital is commanded by a brilliant and strange psychiatrist, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham), who has been looking for the key for another dimension for a long time. The only person who believes in Kirsty is a young and kind assistant of Dr. Channard, called Kyle MacRae (William Hope). Following Kirsty's version of the story, Channard put his hands on the bloodstained mattress where her stepmother Júlia (Clare Higgins, from the first Hellraiser) died, Channard decides to resurrect her, killing his patients and offering them as food for Júlia. She returns without skin, and she decides to help Channard to bring the forces of the evil, but the plans of the two will be disturbed by Kirsty, who wants to end at once with the cenobites, and for Kyle, who doesn't want to see Kirsty being hurt...
Actors
Julia CottonClare Higgins
Kirsty CottonAshley Laurence
Dr. Philip Channard/Channard CenobiteKenneth Cranham
Also posted in 1988, Fantasy, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hellraiser

IMDB Rating: 6.70
8174 votes

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Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
Actors
Larry CottonAndrew Robinson
Julia CottonClare Higgins
Kirsty CottonAshley Laurence
Also posted in 1987, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Witches of Eastwick

IMDB Rating: 6.30
10007 votes

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Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches ?
Actors
Daryl Van HorneJack Nicholson
Alexandra MedfordCher
Jane SpoffordSusan Sarandon
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Angel Heart

IMDB Rating: 7.10
9798 votes

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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.
Actors
Harold R. 'Harry' AngelMickey Rourke
Louis CyphreRobert De Niro
Epiphany ProudfootLisa Bonet
Also posted in 1987, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Evil Dead II

IMDB Rating: 7.70
18441 votes

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Ash - the sole survivor of the original 'Evil Dead' - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor's wife...and they try to make sure Ash is...Dead by Dawn!
Actors
Ashley 'Ash' J. WilliamsBruce Campbell
Annie KnowbySarah Berry
JakeDan Hicks
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Predator

IMDB Rating: 7.40
30094 votes

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Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists' camp. After that's over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn't long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What's been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered.
Actors
Major Alan 'Dutch' SchaefferArnold Schwarzenegger
Major George DillonCarl Weathers
AnnaElpidia Carrillo
Also posted in 1987, Action, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Aliens

IMDB Rating: 8.30
73342 votes

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More than a half-century after the events of 'Alien', Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley's employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer's license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.
Actors
Ellen RipleySigourney Weaver
Rebecca 'Newt' JordenCarrie Henn
Cpl. Dwayne HicksMichael Biehn
Also posted in 1986, Action, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Hitcher

IMDB Rating: 6.90
5298 votes

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A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.
Actors
Jim HalseyC. Thomas Howell
John RyderRutger Hauer
NashJennifer Jason Leigh
Also posted in 1986, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)