A psychological thriller from original “Twilight Zone” writer Charles Beaumont. In a showdown of man vs. machine, Rex Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from a megalomaniacal corporation. Starring your two favorite Bills- Pullman and Paxton!
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Horror History: Wednesday, December 20, 1989: Monster High was released in theaters
Every school has its share of space cadets, but this semester, MONtgomery STERling HIGH is about toget theirs, complete with real live ray-guns, in this spaced-out sci-fi comedy. When all-American average guy Norm Median meets fatally-attractive Candace Caine the first day of fall term, they’re both too distracted to notice the weird new “transfer” students, even if they include a fashion-conscious zombie, a killer plant and a stone gargoyle. Hey, some kids are like that. But when their leader-famous inter-galactic terrorist Mr. Armageddon; drops in with global destruction on his mind, Norm has to think fast. The end seems near until Norm suggests challenging Mr. A’s “team” to a basketball game for the fate of the earth. The stakes are high, if the planet is destroyed, it would seriously wreck Norman’s chances with Candace but no one said being a senior was easy in the cosmically-campy campus comedy, MONSTER HIGH.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 20, 1989: Monster High was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: Beware! Children at Play was released in theaters
After several children have gone missing, a writer and a cop decide to get to the bottom of the problem once and for all. As they find more and more leads they discover that their children are being brainwashed into zombified cannibal killers by a disturbed teen.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: Beware! Children at Play was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, November 9, 1989: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! was released in theaters
The notorious Santa Claus killer is back (after getting shot presumably dead in SNDN 2), and this time he’s hooked up with a blind young woman with telepathic powers. Directed by famed Roger Corman protege Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop)!
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, November 9, 1989: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters
An attractive college student begins a journey of terror when she takes a class on fear from an “off-center” professor who believes one must experience fear firsthand to understand it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1989: Shocker was released in theaters
Wes Craven directs this blend of special effects, jolting humor and an exhilarating soundtrack that portrays a mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1989: Shocker was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1989: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released in theaters
One year following the events of Halloween 4, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield with a vengeance.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1989: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, October 12, 1989: Puppet Master was released direct-to-video
The Andre Toulon and the Puppet Master saga begins…Alex Whittaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon’s secret of death in the form of five killer puppets-each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, October 12, 1989: Puppet Master was released direct-to-video”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 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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
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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.
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