The 13 Best Horror Movies of the 1980s
08.10.2022 - 21:09
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The 1980s was a great decade for horror, with classics like “The Shining,” “The Fly,” and two “Evil Dead” movies. Effects were largely practical (not computer-generated) and genre giants Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi and David Cronenberg were making some of their most iconic movies ever.
So come back with us to the Overlook Hotel, the Slaughtered Lamb pub, a cabin in the woods and Elm Street. If you dare.Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) goes mad after being hired as a winter caretaker at a remote mountain resort in Stanley Kubrick’s eerily masterful adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel.
Peter Medak’s underrated film about a widower (George C. Scott) who discovers the historic house he’s renting is already inhabited by a vengeful spirit is more subtle and psychological than most of the films on this list, but it’s still scary as hell.Despite being told to stay off the Yorkshire moors, American backpackers David (James Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) lose their way on a moonlit night and are attacked by… well, the superstitious locals won’t say, but Jack is dead and David is not quite himself when he wakes up in a London hospital.
John Landis’ blend of humor and horror can be a bit jarring (like having “Blue Moon” abruptly blast over the end credits), but we wouldn’t change a thing. Especially lines like, “A naked American man stole my balloons.” John Carpenter’s much-copied movie about a crew of research scientists who realize they’re trapped with a grotesque shape-shifting alien in the Antarctic is a master class in ratcheting up fear and paranoia.
By the end, no one trusts anybody else and any one of the dwindling number of survivors could be compromised. Throw in Jed the wolfdog and Kurt Russell
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