Horror Movies of 1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes
After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The Man with Two Brains
Steve Martin and Carl Reiner concoct one of Martin's ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The Hunger
The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Jaws 3
An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The Being
Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for exploitation pioneer Bill Osco, who stars under the pseudonym "Rexx Coltrane." The plot concerns a mutant ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate stories--each by a different director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller. In one, a bigot is ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Christine
Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Amityville 3-D
The third installment in the haunted-house saga ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Frightmare
This uneven attempt at horror parody, direced by Norman Thaddeus Vane, gets off to a fairly promising start with a fun performance from Ferdinand Mayne (the imposing lead vampire in Roman Polanski's Fearless ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The Evil Dead
This auspicious feature debut from Sam Raimi -- shot on 16mm in the woods of Tennesse for around $350,000 -- secured the young director's cult status as a creative force to be reckoned with. The ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Of Unknown Origin
When a banking executive tries to outsmart an enormous and seriously pesky rat, it is a case of a battle of wits between two unarmed opponents in this ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Sleepaway Camp
A deadly boating accident derails the life of a sensitive youngster, leading to confusion, madness and murder. Years after the incident, ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The House on Sorority Row
Sorority sisters are frighteningly plucked off one by one in this low-budget horror film by Mark Rosman. Katherine (Kathryn McNeil) is a serious-minded, thinking woman whose intelligence is about to stand her in ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Xtro
For those with a taste for the repugnant comes this gory blood-and-guts fest ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Mutant
A muscular pair of Yankee brothers visit a backwater Georgia town and end up involved with rednecked mutant zombies. The campy horror begins when brother Mike ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Girls Nite Out
This dull, routine slasher film focuses on a nighttime scavenger hunt sponsored by a sorority that takes a tragic turn when a figure in a bear costume with knives strapped to one "paw" begins ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Boarding House
This lurid, shot-on-video splatter epic centers on a suburban home with a gory past, purchased by a swinging psychic hedonist with a fascination for the occult who immediately turns the place into a decadent all-girl boarding house. No ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
The Forest
This amateurish backwoods horror opus finds a quartet of annoying California campers embarking on an idyllic mountain getaway, only to be terrorized by a cave-dwelling cannibal cracker ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Rats
A hybrid of the post-nuke action and gross-out gore film, this ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Scalps
Dr. Howard Machen (Kirk Alyn) and his students have been raiding ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
A Night to Dismember
As Detective O'Malley (played by an uncredited actor, lucky guy) tells it, the entire Kent clan is slayed one at a time by a hatchet-wielding maniac that may be Vicki Kent (Samantha Fox). Vicki is back after having spent ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
Geek Maggot Bingo
Pretentious New York underground filmmaker Nick Zedd apparently tried to package this 16mm ... [ Horror movie - 1983 ]
