Horror Movies of 1985
Witch from Nepal
Noted action director Ching Siu-tang spins this wild and woolly supernatural romantic thriller. Joe Wong (Chow Yun-fat) is an architect, who, while on vacation in Nepal with his lady friend, Ida (Yammie Nam Kit-yang), gets thrown ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is an uneven, tepid trilogy of stories written by Stephen King connected by a cat which appears at the beginning of each story. The best story, and ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Lifeforce
Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Transylvania 6-5000
In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Doctor and the Devils
A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Bride
In this update of James Whale's classic The Bride of Frankenstein, pop star Sting furthers his burgeoning film career by portraying cinema's signature mad scientist. Disgusted by his dim-witted and ugly ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Silver Bullet
In this undistinguished Stephen King horror adaptation, the good residents of Tarker's Mill are dense enough to ignore or explain away a series of violent deaths until a little boy is ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Chiller
This made-for-TV effort from horror director Wes Craven and Salem's Lot producer Richard ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Stuff
When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Once Bitten
Best remembered for containing the film debut of ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Fright Night
A teenage horror film addict is shocked to discover that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
The brother of a slain werewolf newscaster joins the battle against a lycanthropic femme fatale in this sequel ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Several years after the events of A Nightmare on Elm ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Re-Animator
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Return of the Living Dead
Middle-aged family man Frank (Jim Karen) trains teenaged Freddy (Thom Matthews) for his new job at a medical supply warehouse. In an effort to impress and frighten his young ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Witchboard
In this horror film, the spirit of a young boy named David reaches out to Linda Brewster (Tawny Kitaen) while she participates in an Ouija board session at a ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Creature
Less than a year before James Cameron's turbo-charged sequel, Hollywood (or its overseas counterparts) still managed to ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Cementerio del Terror
This cheapo Mexican horror outing is set in Texas, filmed in Spanish, and centers upon a doctor who becomes a religious zealot after he dreams about the resurrection of the dead into ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Monster Dog
This "monster dog" horror story stars Alice Cooper ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Blood Cult
This bargain-basement slasher film from Oklahoma was shot entirely on video -- a format trumpeted proudly on the cassette sleeve, but definitely nothing to be proud of -- which manages to accentuate the uncomfortable sleaziness ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Dark Power
A dusty sheriff (played by real-life cowboy Lash LaRue) must protect the residents of a house--built over a burial ground--from the ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Dark Shadows: Behind the Scenes
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Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Demons
Italian horror auteur Dario Argento produced and co-wrote (with director Lamberto Bava) this gory, nightmarish horror film set almost entirely within the ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Evils of the Night
This uproariously bad sci-fi horror oddity plays like a modern version of a cheesy '50s alien invasion flick, only not as clever. The filmmakers deserve some credit for throwing ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning
The murderous spirit of Jason Vorhees lives on in this horror sequel, although the plot hinges on the mystery of whether the killer's ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Hard Rock Zombies
Essentially a feature-length music video featuring one of the most horrendous, awful heavy metal acts in the history of hairspray and studded leather, this hilarious horror dud ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Igor & the Lunatics
Cheap, gory horror nonsense about a Charles Manson-like cult leader and his deranged, sex-mad, murderous followers who were captured and sent to prison, only to make probation 16 years later and ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Other Hell
The subject matter of The Other Hell has been covered by previous European shockfests, notably Sisters of Satan. This 1980 film (released in the ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Shadows Run Black
In this exploitational slice-n-dicer masquerading as a police thriller, a college coed can do nothing while all her friends are being murdered by mysterious man wielding a meat cleaver. In true exploitational style, most of the women are ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
The Toxic Avenger
In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
La Mansion De Los Muertos Vivientes
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Vampire Hunter D
This animated Japanese feature is aimed at adult audiences and features bloodshed and nudity. The story is set in a grim and distant future wherein vampires dominate what is left of ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
Making Contact
German director Roland Emmerich filmed this conventional supernatural drama set in a small town in mid-America. Little Joey (Joshua Morrell) mourns the death of his ... [ Horror movie - 1985 ]
