A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper’s 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him.
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Horror History: Friday, May 6, 1988: Dead Heat was released in theaters
Maverick L.A.P.D. officer Roger Mortis is a good cop who will do anything to nail the bad guys. Investigating some frightening goings-on, Mortis and his partner, Doug Bigelow pay a visit to Dante Laboratories. It is here that they discover the high-tech Resurrection Room churning out a weird band of recycled and indestructible criminals. And it is here that Mortis meets his untimely death.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 6, 1988: Dead Heat was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, April 22, 1988: The Unholy was released in theaters
Archbishop Mosley assigns Father Michael to a church in New Orleans which was the site of throat-slashing murders of two priests two years earlier.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 22, 1988: The Unholy was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, April 15, 1988: Brain Damage was released in theaters
Meet Elmer. He’s your local, friendly parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in his hosts.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 15, 1988: Brain Damage was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, April 8, 1988: Bad Dreams was released in theaters
From The Director Of The Craft, The Screenwriter Of Die Hard, & The Producer Of The Terminator In the mid-70s, the members of the love cult Unity Fields sought ‘the ultimate joining’ by dousing themselves with gasoline and committing mass suicide. A young girl blown clear of the fiery explosion was the only survivor. Thirteen years later, Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin of A Nightmare On Elm Street 3) awakens from a coma inside a psychiatric hospital with only buried memories of that horrific day. But now, her fellow patients are each being driven to their own violent suicides. Has the sect’s hideously burned leader (Richard Lynch) returned to claim his final child, or is something even more depraved lurking within her Bad Dreams? Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator), Harris Yulin (Scarface), E.G. Daily (The Devil’s Rejects) and Dean Cameron (Summer School) co-star in this intense horror shocker directed by Andrew Fleming (The Craft, Dick), co-written by Steven de Souza (Die Hard, 48 HRS) and produced by Gale Anne Hurd (Armageddon, T2).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 8, 1988: Bad Dreams was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1988: Pulse was released in theaters
An intelligent pulse of electricity travels from house to house taking control of appliances and terrorizing occupants. Starring Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence and Charles Tyner.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1988: Pulse was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1988: Prison was released in US theaters
Creedmore Prison becomes a supernatural battleground when the specter of Charlie Forsythe, a man executed for murder, returns seeking vengeance from the brutal guard, Ethan Sharpe, who was aware of his innocence. The lives of the inmates hang in the balance as Forsythe and Sharpe lock in demonic combat.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1988: Prison was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1988: The Serpent and the Rainbow was released in theaters
A terrifying story of one man’s nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo.
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It all began in a sleepy Midwestern community, a place that had never known evil…until now. But years ago, in a stillness beneath the waters, something sinister happened, and now its deadly spawn are emerging from the depths into the light. What are these hungry, mutated creatures after? Any piece of flesh they can get, including human beings!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1988: Slugs was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1988: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama was released in theaters
There are no freshmen in the college of love, and they’re about to graduate to madcap mayhem when a sorority prank goes crazy. Out to steal a trophy from a local bowling alley, the kids accidentally unleash The Imp – a sadistic little spirit with a diabolical sense of humor. He creates demons and loves sexy women. He’s inviting you to come along and die laughing – just like everybody else.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1988: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1988: Return of the Living Dead Part II was released in theaters
A canister falls off an Army truck and spreads a mysterious gas over a cemetery – and up sprouts newly-minted zombies, with a hunger for brains!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1988: Return of the Living Dead Part II was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, December 19, 1987: Opera was released in Italian theaters
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 19, 1987: Opera was released in Italian theaters”Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1987: Howling III was released in theaters
A strange race of marsupials suddenly appear in Australia. A sociologist studying these creatures falls in love with a female and she gives birth to a new race of hairy offspring.
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A lonely library clerk stumbles across a manuscript that he uses to develop psychic powers, which make him irresistible to women. Soon, his powers get out of control, just as they start showing up in his friends.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 1, 1987: Mindkiller was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1987: The Hidden was released in theaters
Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri star as a pair of Los Angeles police detectives assigned to stop a crime spree.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1987: The Hidden was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1987: Prince of Darkness was released in theaters
This story centers on a Catholic priest who discovers a gelatinous fluid that he believes is the source of power for the anti-Christ that is about to attack an unsuspecting world.
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Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.
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An academy coed (Virginia Madsen) discovers a faculty plot to achieve immortality with a serum made from students’ brains.
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Your flesh will CRAWL right off your SKIN! Set in a futuristic 1998, six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, a group of army deserters take refuge from ‘acid rain’ in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex…a band of desperate deserters flee into the desert, they stumble across an underground lab where they discover a horror even greater than war itself.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1987: Creepozoids was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 25, 1987: From a Whisper to a Scream was released in theaters
When a reporter ventures to Oldfield, the town historian tells her of the raw evil which lurks throughout Oldfield. To prove his point, he relates four grisly tales from the town’s petrifying past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 25, 1987: From a Whisper to a Scream was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 18, 1987: Hellraiser was released in US theaters
Kirsty Cotton’s family moves into an ancestral home and is terrorized by the resurrected corpse of her uncle, who requires the flesh of innocent victims to stay alive.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 18, 1987: Hellraiser was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, September 16, 1987: Street Trash was released in US theaters
Things turn deadly for a liquor store who is unknowingly selling toxic brew to homeless citizens in the community.
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An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman’s house. They are killed and the lamp is sent to a museum to be studied. The curator’s daughter is soon possessed by the genie and invites her friends to spend the night at the museum, along with some uninvited guests.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1987: The Outing was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1987: A Return to Salem’s Lot was released in theaters
A sleepy new england town harbors a community of the undead — a horde of blood-frenzied vampires who’ve kept their ghoulish identities hidden for more than 300 years.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1987: A Return to Salem’s Lot was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, September 1, 1987: Night Screams was released in theaters
Two insane escaped killers slash their way through a high school party as they elude the authorities.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, September 1, 1987: Night Screams was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: Slaughterhouse was released in theaters
A crazed meat packer, Lester Bacon, takes his revenge on the Lakeside townspeople responsible for his bankruptcy. Using “Buddy”, his maniacal son, he cuts a bloody swath of death and destruction during the town’s annual “Pig Out” Festival. Can Sheriff Borden put the pieces together and save the town, his daughter, and her friends from the clutches of a madman…and Buddy!!!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: Slaughterhouse was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: House II: The Second Story was released in US theaters
Jesse McLaughlin’s sitting on top of the world. He’s a talented artist with a growing career and a beautiful girlfriend. And he’s moving into a magnificent house. A very special house. A house which will plunge him into an incredible adventure…one where all of his dreams, fantasies and nightmares will be realized.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: House II: The Second Story was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 14, 1987: The Monster Squad was released in theaters
Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Gill-Man, the Mummy, and the Frankenstein Monster are in hot pursuit of a mysterious amulet that will allow their return and only the movie-loving kids in the neighborhood Monster Club can stop them!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 14, 1987: The Monster Squad was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 31, 1987: The Lost Boys was released in theaters
Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 31, 1987: The Lost Boys was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 17, 1987: Jaws: The Revenge was released in theaters
This time–it’s personal. The Jaws saga reaches its conclusion in this thrilling fourth and final installment as the wife of police chief Brody is followed to the Bahamas by a Great White.
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