When a high school underdog connects with the demonic force behind his horrorscope, there’s more than the phone bill to pay!
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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”Horror History: Friday, November 11, 1988: Ghost Town was released in theaters
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”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.
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