Best Horror Films of 1987
Predator
Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has ... but was sufficiently satisfying for its (largely male) audiences that a successful sequel (Predator 2) was released in 1990. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Epidemic
Director Lars von Trier ... medical bag. Fantasy sequences depict the possible horror that could come if the virus is unleashed on the public. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Near Dark
In Kathryn Bigelow's tale ... violent but tightly knit gang. Bigelow would later utilize this powerful dramatic device in her 1991 film Point Break. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Jaws: The Revenge
This third sequel to ... halt to the fishy horror. Director Joseph Sargent concludes the series with an ending chosen from several alternate possibilities. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Bay Coven
This slow-moving occult thriller ... an exploding church, which may just be loud enough to wake you up so you can rewind the tape. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Prince of Darkness
Proving that you can ... of Darkness was directed by horror master John Carpenter; he also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Martin Quatermass. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
House 2: The Second Story
This mundane sequel to ... cartoonish flair, and from Cheers alum John Ratzenberger's amusing cameo turn as a plumber strangely accustomed to cross-dimensional travel. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Horror maven Wes Craven ... an ethnobotanist whose real-life hunt for the zombie drug was credited with cracking the medical mystery behind the myth. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
The Monster Squad
A group of adolescent ... The boys get unexpected help from Frankenstein when the monster grows tired of being continually bossed around by Dracula. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Return to Horror High
In 1982, Crippen High ... first victim, and The Brady Bunch's Maureen McCormick as a policewoman with a lust for blood and hot dogs. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Bad Taste
Extraterrestrial fast-food franchisers come ... to return to their home planet with their human-hash cargo before a rival franchise puts them out of business. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
The Gate
During a boring, routine ... of the most hideous demons imaginable. A surprise box-office hit, The Gate yielded a sequel, predictably titled Gate II. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
This parody of horror ... trapped in a shopping mall. To stop the mischievous demon, the girls team up with a few geeky nerds. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Nightmare Sisters
Three prim and proper ... turns them into voluptuous vixens with insatiable sex drives. Fortunately, the fraternity next door is filled with handsome hunks. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Creepozoids
From the prolific (if ... slime and alien saliva -- but the abundant goop still can't disguise the fact that there's nothing worthwhile underneath. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
This high-octane semi-sequel to ... truly demented cinema. The film's sardonic coda opened the way for a slightly less successful sequel, Army of Darkness. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Hellraiser
The feature-film debut of ... brother's skin -- Kirsty hands Frank over to the Cenobites, who have particularly evil plans for their old friend. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Dolls
Young Judy Bower (Carrie ... dolls are alive, and protect the young (Judy) and the young at heart (Ralph) from the evils of adulthood. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Opera
The polar-opposite worlds of ... connection to the young singer. A final scene set in the Swiss mountains provides a couple of final shocks. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Bloody New Year
Despite the misleading American ... derivative of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, minus those films' extreme approach to horror. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Evil Laugh
In this slice-n-dicer, a ... for a weekend of fun and frolic. Their revelry is interrupted when a knife wielding psycho-slasher crashes the party. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Graveyard Shift
This low-budget but slickly ... prevents this from achieving true cult-classic status. Graveyard Shift was followed by a sequel titled Understudy: Graveyard Shift 2. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Hell High
This routine slasher-thriller deviates ... very little actual suspense. Still, it's considerably better than Demented, an earlier, wholly unsubtle treatment of the same theme. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
The Majorettes
Majorettes and cheerleaders of ... suspects in the murders. Helga is the nurse of a wealthy employer who stands to gain from his demise. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Mirror of Death
A woman tormented by ... avenging angel by taking up voodoo against her attacker. This film was not rated, but includes violence and gore. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Night of the Sharks
This convoluted actioner is ... and centers upon a voracious gigantic one-eyed shark, stolen diamonds, a sunken ship, a murdered brother and corporate villains. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Slaughterhouse
In this slasher, a ... the slaughterhouse is slated to be sold for back-taxes. Occasional moments of black humor garnish this routine horror feature. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Slugs
An absolutely grotesque horror ... restaurant patron's eye blows out, revealing swarming baby slugs. Needless to say, such doings will not appeal to everyone. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Stage Fright
Horror film actor Michele ... while this one was produced by Aristide Massaccesi ("Joe D'Amato") from a script by actor Luigi Montefiori ("George Eastman"). [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Street Trash
This shocker will most ... to the bums for a buck. It is later revealed that the wine was deliberately spiked by the government. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Mr. Vampire 3
Ricky Lau continues his ... an unruly gaggle of spirits leading to more high-kicking kung-fu sequences. Rotund martial arts star Sammo Hung also appears. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Killing Spree
A virtually plotless excuse ... a film which, though thoroughly disgusting in its own right, is far slicker-looking than this serving of direct-to-video tripe. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Aenigma
Horror legend Lucio Fulci ... living statues and killer snails, and the plot, cribbed from Richard Franklin's superior Patrick (1978), is weak and underdeveloped. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Howling III: The Marsupials
Professor Harry Bechmeyer (Barry ... pirouettes on the stage of the Sydney Opera House. The feature works as a parody of its two predecessors. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Evil Cat
Hong Kong filmmaker Dennis ... hurry, and Wong Jing provides comic relief as a goofy policeman in love with Cheung's daughter. Tang Lai-ying co-stars. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Terror Night
The final directorial effort ... the film follows a cast of characters as each one enters the house and meets a different gruesome fate. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Zombie 5: Killing Birds
When a shell-shocked Vietnam ... dead begin to rise and an unspeakable evil descends from the sky to rip the souls from the living. [ best horror films - 1987 ]
Asesino Nocturno
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Splatter Farm
Made in the tradition ... When Joseph and Alan discover this, and decide to take vengeance into their own hands, all hell breaks loose. [ best horror films - 1987 ]Supplemental Navigation
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