A dusty ghost town, seemingly abandoned, holds the lives of its original inhabitants in an animated netherworld for 100 years… When a modern-day sheriff’s deputy is lured to a desolate, spooky ghost town in search of a missing woman, he comes face-to-face with a malevolent spirit from the town’s past. The spell of death and suffering over the undead townspeople must end to set them free from eternal pain. The horrors of a possessed outlaw, in a time-suspended dimension are only the setting for a frightening battle for the mind, nerves and flesh.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 11, 1988: Ghost Town was released in theaters”Category: Horror History
Horror History: Wednesday, November 9, 1988: Child’s Play was released in theaters
Young Andy Barclay gets the doll he wanted. However, he did not know it was alive!
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Horror History: Wednesday, October 26, 1988: Deadly Dreams was released direct-to-video
From the director of the highly acclaimed Body Chemistry comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex (Mitchell Anderson; Party of Five) is caught in a web of distrust between his brother (Xander Berkeley; Gattaca), his best friend (Thom Babbes, Naked Under Heaven), and a beautiful stranger (Juliette Cummins; Slumber Party Massacre 2), all while plagued by recurring nightmares of the slaughter of his family by a hunter wearing a fox mask.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 26, 1988: Deadly Dreams was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, October 21, 1988: The Lair of the White Worm was released in theaters
In a remote corner of England’s Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshipping — very erotically — her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 21, 1988: The Lair of the White Worm was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 21, 1988: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was released in theaters
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 21, 1988: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1988: Night of the Demons was released in US theaters
Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1988: Night of the Demons was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, October 5, 1988: Ghoulies II was released in theaters
The Ghoulies are back in this sequel in which they take over a traveling carnival giving a park full of teenagers a night they’ll never forget.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 5, 1988: Ghoulies II was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1988: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark was released in theaters
Elvira busts out in her outrageously funny feature film debut! Wise-cracking vamp, Elvira, wants to put on a show in Las Vegas but she’s short $50,000, so when she learns that her wealthy Aunt Morgana has just died, she rushes off to old-fashioned, conservative Falwell, Massachusetts, for the reading of the will.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1988: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, September 28, 1988: Scarecrows was released direct-to-video
Five crooks rob an army base payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. One crook parachutes out with the money–followed closely by the others. All five land in a mysterious, abandoned graveyard at night, where they are terrorized by ghouls.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 28, 1988: Scarecrows was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, September 23, 1988: Spellbinder was released in theaters
Jeff Mills, an L.A. attorney, rescues a woman he has never met before, not knowing she is the woman of his dreams, or that she will lead him into a nightmare of illusion and betrayal.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 23, 1988: Spellbinder was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, September 20, 1988: Cellar Dweller was released direct-to-video
The promising career of a horror comic book artist ends in a fiery death when he confronts the carnage of his own imagination in his studio. Years later, an ardent devotee of the artist’s work becomes a resident in his house, now an art academy, unaware that her imagination has revived the grotesque murderer of the past…and that she may be the next victim. Whoa.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, September 20, 1988: Cellar Dweller was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, August 26, 1988: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers was released in theaters
The grisly murders that terrorized Camp Arawak have become favorite ghost stories around Camp Rolling Hills six years later. As each of the campers learn the secrets about the murders, their carefree days at summer camp come to an end.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 26, 1988: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 19, 1988: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was released in theaters
Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) resurrects–hideously scarred–and returns to haunt the dreams of the teenaged children of the people who lynched him. It’s just a nightmare…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 19, 1988: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 5, 1988: The Blob was released in theaters
A malignant, gelatinous life form takes over a small town in this visually gut-wrenching thriller.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 5, 1988: The Blob was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 29, 1988: Monkey Shines was released in theaters
Injected wth human brain cells, a superintelligent female monkey is enlisted to help a wheelchair-bound quadraplegic get on with his life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 29, 1988: Monkey Shines was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, July 24, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” final episode “Basher Malone” premiered
Season 4 Episode 20
A religious wrestler and his mother contend against a crooked fight manager, played by Vic Tayback, who holds ties to a devilish opponent. Written by Peter O’Keefe.
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Season 4 Episode 19
A parody of I Love Lucy, an alien comes to a family’s door asking for ammonia and hilarity ensues. Written by Jule Selbo
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, July 17, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Barter” premiered”Horror History: Thursday, July 14, 1988: Hobgoblins was released in theaters
A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, July 14, 1988: Hobgoblins was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, July 10, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Hush” premiered
Season 4 Episode 18
A child innocently builds a device that eats sound in order to make his mother happy, but soon loses control of the creepy machine (which silences things by sucking out their energy and killing them).
Based on a story by Zenna Henderson, adapted by John Harrison (under the name John Sutherland).
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, July 10, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Hush” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 8, 1988: Phantasm II was released in theaters
The ultimate evil – the Tall Man of Phantasm – returns in this terrifying horror film about the relentless and unstoppable mortician on an even more sinister murderous rampage.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 8, 1988: Phantasm II was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, June 19, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Going Native” premiered
Season 4 Episode 17
An alien visitor studies human nature as a photographer.
Written and directed by Ted Gershuny (who, the following year, collaborated with Tommy Lee Wallace on the script for Drew Barrymore’s movie Far From Home)
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, June 19, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Going Native” premiered”Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1988: Waxwork was released in theaters
In this horror film, an evil magician creates a wax display of famous monsters and murderers and invites a group of unsuspecting young college students to view the collection. However, when the kids are trapped in the deadly displays, one-by-one they soon discover that the wax models are more than they appear to be.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1988: Waxwork was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 10, 1988: Poltergeist III was released in theaters
In the climactic finale to the Poltergeist trilogy, those elusive demons are more frightening than ever as they follow Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke) to Chicago and inhabit an entire skyscraper.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 10, 1988: Poltergeist III was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 1, 1988: Cheerleader Camp was released in theaters
Welcome to Camp Hurrah, where a psycho killer is slaughtering high school cheerleaders on the eve of the all-state finals. Drive-in goddesses Betsy Russell (Private School, Avenging Angel) and Lucinda Dickey (Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo) star with former teen idol Leif Garrett in this bouncing, bleeding bonanza of B-movie goodness featuring graphic violence, gratuitous nudity, bad rapping and more from the glory days of late ‘80s splatter. This is Cheerleader Camp!
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 1, 1988: Cheerleader Camp was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 27, 1988: Killer Klowns from Outer Space was released in theaters
One-of-a-kind alien invasion sci-fi featuring blood drinking alien clowns harvesting human victims in a small city.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 27, 1988: Killer Klowns from Outer Space was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, May 22, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Family Reunion” premiered
Season 4 Episode 16
A man guards his sick son closely and has sole custody, while the boy’s worried mother desperately wants to be reunited with her child. Its later revealed the mother is a werewolf, and their son inherited her lycanthropy; she kills the father to reunite with her son, who has been unable to control his changes.
Written by Edithe Swensen, directed by Tom Savini, and guest-starring Patricia Tallman.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 22, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Family Reunion” premiered”Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: American Gothic was released in theaters
A new tale of terror from the director of The Legend of Hell House and The Incubus.
When six young friends fly off on a weekend getaway and suddenly find themselves with engine trouble, they have no choice but to land on a remote Pacific island. Looking for shelter, they are grateful when they meet Ma and Pa and their children: an eccentric family still living in the backwoods as if it’s still the 1920s. But what begins as simple old-school hospitality becomes a terrifying race for survival when one by one, the friends start disappearing and dying horrible deaths. Fleeing the outside world many years ago, the family has created an island domain, where all strangers are sinners: and the killing has never stopped.
American Gothic features an all-star cast including Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night), Yvonne De Carlo (The Munsters), Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie and Clyde) and William Hootkins (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: American Gothic was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: Not of This Earth was released in theaters
Remake of the Corman classic of a mysterious alien sent to earth to replenish his world’s blood supply by feeding on human blood. It takes the unstoppable determination of a nurse and her boyfriend cop to stop this vampire alien.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1988: Not of This Earth was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, May 15, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Do Not Open This Box” premiered
Season 4 Episode 15
Charlie is a sweet-natured but unsuccessful inventor. His wife Ruth (an acid-tongued opportunist who sorely regrets her choice of spouse, and who is openly jealous of their well-to-do neighbor) takes advantage of a deliveryman’s generosity, after the latter expresses his need for a mistakenly delivered item with the title warning inscribed on it. When it becomes evident that Ruth has no intention of returning the box, our deliveryman reveals his true identity. It doesn’t help that Ruth has already opened the apparently empty box…or that the box in fact contained something which, literally, money cannot buy.
Written by Franco Amurri and directed by Jodie Foster and guest-starring Eileen Heckart.
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