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”Category: Horror History
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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Night Visitor was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, April 29, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “In Living Colour” premiered
Season 5 Episode 2
After photographer Eric Coleman takes pictures of an elderly woman’s suicide, he takes on a new assistant named Madeleine, who may have a deeper connection to the dead woman than he could ever guess.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 29, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “In Living Colour” premiered”Horror History: Friday, April 28, 1989: The Horror Show was released in theaters
A maniacal mass murderer returns from the depths of hell to seek revenge on the cop who captured him in this supernatural horror classic that stars Lance Henriksen and DeDee Pfeiffer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 28, 1989: The Horror Show was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, April 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Martyr” premiered
Season 5 Episode 1
Deirdre manipulates Jacques into killing her wealthy older husband for her after getting his attention by pretending to be blind, but soon realises that things don’t work out the way she planned when Jacques will not go away.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Martyr” premiered”Horror History: Friday, April 21, 1989: Pet Sematary was released in theaters
The terrifying tale by Stephen King is also a beloved adaptation of the best-selling author’s work. Pet Sematary follows the tragic story of the Creed family. After their cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery. When the cat comes back, it’s only the beginning of an unthinkable evil leading to hell and back. Sometimes, so it seems, dead is better.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 21, 1989: Pet Sematary was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 24, 1989: Cutting Class was released in theaters
Paula Carson’s (Jill Schoelen, Popcorn) high school experience couldn’t be better. Between being class president and dating her school’s star basketball player, Dwight (Brad Pitt, Se7en), she seems to have everything she could ask for. But when mentally disturbed teenage murderer Brian Wood (Donovan Leitch, The Blob) is released from an area asylum and rejoins his old classmates, it’s not long before students and teachers alike turn up missing, or are found murdered. While Dwight becomes convinced that Brian’s gone back to his violent ways, Paula can’t help but suspect that someone might be trying to set Brian up to carry out their own twisted plan…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 24, 1989: Cutting Class was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 24, 1989: 976-EVIL was released in US theaters
When a high school underdog connects with the demonic force behind his horrorscope, there’s more than the phone bill to pay!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 24, 1989: 976-EVIL was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 17, 1989: Leviathan was released in theaters
A group of deep-sea miners discover a sunken Russian submarine containing a genetics lab, which apparently had created a monster. It slips onto their own ship and they must try to destroy it as it picks them off, one by one. Often described as “Alienin the ocean,” it captures much of the suspense of the space thriller.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 17, 1989: Leviathan was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, March 12, 1989: Necromancer was released direct-to-video
Assaulted by classmates, an acting student makes contact with a necromancer for revenge in this bloodcurdling horror.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, March 12, 1989: Necromancer was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Thursday, March 2, 1989: Witchcraft was released direct-to-video
A new mother and her child move into her mother-in-law’s dark old mansion. She begins to suspect that neither the house nor her mother-in-law are what they seem to be.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, March 2, 1989: Witchcraft was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Sunday, January 29, 1989: Lobster Man from Mars was released in theaters
A movie mogul in search of a tax shelter screens a sci-fi cheapie about a girl, a professor and a monster.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, January 29, 1989: Lobster Man from Mars was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 27, 1989: Parents was released in theaters
Meet the Laemles, Dad’s (Randy Quaid) got a great job, Mom (Mary Beth Hurt) has all the modern conveniences a happy homemaker could ask for, and ten-year-old Michael (Brian Madorsky) has neat new friends and two parents that kill him with kindness. They’re the all-American family of 1954 with one small exception the parents are cannibals.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 27, 1989: Parents was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 13, 1989: Pumpkinhead was released in US theaters
When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley (Henriksen) seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. But when she tells him the child’s death is irrevocable, his grief develops into an all-consuming desire…for revenge! Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke ‘the pumpkinhead a monstrously clawed and fanged demon which, once reborn, answers only to Ed’s bloodlust. But as the invincible creature wreaks its slow, unspeakable tortures on the teens, Ed confronts a horrifying secret about his connection to the beast and realizes that he must find a way to stop its deadly mission before he becomes one with it forever!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 13, 1989: Pumpkinhead was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 13, 1989: Intruder was released in theaters
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 13, 1989: Intruder was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, December 23, 1988: Hellbound: Hellraiser II was released in theaters
Hellbound: Hellraiser II is the shocking follow-up to the film that redefined the face of horror. Two decades later, it remains the most brutally original sequel in horror film history.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 23, 1988: Hellbound: Hellraiser II was released in theaters”