Season 5 Episode 17
A coach’s players learn more about his track record with other teams when his sadistic tendencies make themselves known.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 30, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Coach” premiered”Author: 4 Evil Eyes
Horror History: Saturday, September 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hootch” was released in theaters
Season 5 Episode 16
Things start to go wrong when a greedy woman decides to kick out her brother, a Vietnam war veteran.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hootch” was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fashion Exchange” premiered
Season 5 Episode 15
A designer struggles to maintain control after the suicide of one of his models.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fashion Exchange” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, August 12, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Part of Me” premiered
Season 5 Episode 14
All isn’t well in the hamburger world when a restauranteur learns that not everything is easy.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 12, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Part of Me” premiered”Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child was released in theaters
Through the dreams of an unborn child, Freddy has resurrected himself … and he’s looking for new victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Square Deal” premiered
Season 5 Episode 13
A con artist finds out that sometimes there are limits as to how far one can go.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Square Deal” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, August 5, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Spinning Wheel” premiered
Season 5 Episode 12
A young performance artists tries to move forward, but is consumed with a series of disturbing nightmares.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 5, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Spinning Wheel” premiered”Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland was released in theaters
This time, the camp set in the deep, dark woods is a camp for troubled youths. The psychotic killer that has roamed the woods and been the topic of many ghost stories, is still lurking about. He has come up with a permanent cure for the teens’ problems as the body count piles up.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Phantom Zone” premiered
Season 5 Episode 11
A secret involving a long ago scandal with his friends causes trouble for a recent university graduate as he prepares to marry the woman of his dreams.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Phantom Zone” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was released in theaters
A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Together Forever” premiered
Season 5 Episode 10
A woman can’t get past the thought that her husband is unfaithful, and it begins to rule her life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Together Forever” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, July 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Her Finest Hour” premiered
Season 5 Episode 9
Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois’ home, but they soon realize that some memories are best left forgotten.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Her Finest Hour” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 21, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Code-Liz” premiered
Season 5 Episode 8
A jealous husband finds himself at the mercy of a computer answering service.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 21, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Code-Liz” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, July 15, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Miracle of Alice Ames” premiered
Season 5 Episode 7
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles and the young girls he forces into prostitution finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place and one of his girls develops the stigmata.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 15, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Miracle of Alice Ames” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 14, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Renaissance” premiered
Season 5 Episode 6
When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer’s plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 14, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Renaissance” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, July 8, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shadow Puppets” was released in theaters
Season 5 Episode 5
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it’s dangerous to play games.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 8, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shadow Puppets” was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered
Season 5 Episode 4
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered”Horror History: Thursday, July 6, 1989: Witchery was released direct-to-video
When a storm strands a group on a Massachusetts island where the only dwelling is an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress (Knef), the result is the standard horror film as each of the cast is picked off one-by-one.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, July 6, 1989: Witchery was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Saturday, July 1, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dark Wishes” premiered
Season 5 Episode 3
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 1, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dark Wishes” premiered”Horror History: Wednesday, June 28, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Collection Completed” premiered
Season 1 Episode 6
An uptight elderly man (M. Emmet Walsh) retires and soon discovers his wife’s (Audra Lindley) obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 28, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Collection Completed” premiered”Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lover Come Hack to Me” premiered
Season 1 Episode 5
A newlywed couple (Amanda Plummer and Stephen Shellen) retreats to the mansion of the wife’s aunt in which the husband plans to kill her for her inheritance, but he soon learns that his wife’s family has a dark past and that the wife herself is not who she seems to be.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lover Come Hack to Me” premiered”Horror History: Wednesday, June 14, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Only Sin Deep” premiered
Season 1 Episode 4
A young self-obsessed prostitute (Lea Thompson) “sells” her looks to a voodoo-dabbling pawnbroker (Britt Leach) so that she can use the money in order to snag a rich bachelor (Brett Cullen), but she soon regrets it four months later when her own face begins to shockingly and unexpectedly age at an accelerated rate.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 14, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Only Sin Deep” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone” premiered
Season 1 Episode 3
A carnival daredevil (Joe Pantoliano) is buried alive for his grand finale. Through flashbacks, he tells the viewers on how he was formerly a homeless man who had undergone a doctor’s experiment in order to transfer a cat’s nine lives into him. He suddenly remembers that he forgot that he only has eight lives, because the cat had to die the first time. However its too late.
Also starring Robert Wuhl.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “And All Through the House” premiered
Season 1 Episode 2
A greedy philandering wife (Mary Ellen Trainor) kills her second husband (Marshall Bell) for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by a hideous escaped mental patient (Larry Drake) dressed as Santa Claus who has been going around killing women. She soon realizes that her own young daughter is in complete danger from within the horrific situation.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “And All Through the House” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Man Who Was Death” premiered
Season 1 Episode 1
A prison executioner named Niles Talbot (William Sadler) is laid off from his job and begins administering his own style of justice to acquitted murder suspects. He gets caught and soon after that, is executed by his former colleaugues.
Also starring Gerrit Graham and Roy Brocksmith.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Man Who Was Death” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 25, 1989: Grandmother’s House was released direct-to-video”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!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 19, 1989: Fright Night Part 2 was released in US theaters”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes debuted on TV”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!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Hell High was released in theaters”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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