Horror History: Thursday, May 25, 1989: Grandmother’s House was released direct-to-video

David and Lynn have just lost their father. Now orphaned, the youngsters are sent to live with their grandparents in a beautiful victorian mansion. But no sooner than boarding the coach bus scheduled to take them to their new home do strange things start to occur, initially in the form of a mysterious woman who seems to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. It’s not long, however, before murdered bodies are found in the area and, to make matters worse, David becomes increasingly fearful that his doting grandparents might be involved in the killings.

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Horror History: Friday, May 19, 1989: Fright Night Part 2 was released in US theaters

Welcome to Fright Night Part II. Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), “The Great Vampire Killer,” and Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) are back in the long-awaited sequel to the box office smash hit Fright Night. And so are the bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Charlie has just met Regine Dandridge (Julie Carmen), an exotic, heart-stopping beauty with a deadly taste for things warm and red. He can’t stop thinking about her…dreaming about her. Not even Charlie’s girlfriend, Alex (Traci Lin), nor Peter Vincent can keep him from being mesmerized by her fatally seductive powers. As the irresistible Regine drains the blood from his veins, Charlie is suddenly jolted by the spine-chilling reality that there’s only one thing more terrifying than fighting vampires – becomng one. Director Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween III) has surpassed the fright of the original film to create a tantalizing shocker in Fright Night Part II. This time the suckers want more than blood. They want revenge!

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Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Night Visitor was released in theaters

Take a terrifying trip into the world of satanic crimes in this dark, underworld tale of a chronic liar who holds the clues to a murder but can’t get anyone to believe him. Shannon Tweed co-stars.

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Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Hell High was released in theaters

A young girl with strange powers causes a deadly accident after two teenagers break her doll. 18 years later, a reclusive, repressed high school teacher can no longer hide the ghosts of her past. When an obnoxious gang of punk students humiliate, sexually assault her and leave her for dead, a twisted, supernatural power stirs within her, driving her insatiable thirst for revenge! Clad in bloody lingerie, the teacher stabs pencils through nubile flesh, hacks off supple limbs with a meat cleaver, plots teenage vivisection and bludgeons youthful beauty into a pulpy mess!

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Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes debuted on TV

The demonic forces that were lurking in the infamous house in Amityville for over 300 years escape to a remote California mansion by inhabiting a lamp. This evil latches onto a little girl living in the home by taking on the form of her dead father. It’s up to a young priest to perform an exorcism and attempt to lift the curse from the desperate family.

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