Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Brain Damage (1988)
- Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry
- Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Child's Play (1988)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…
- 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Demons 3 - The Ogre (Brivido giallo - La casa dell'orco) (1988)
- Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Virginia Bryant, Paolo Malco
- Gothic–tinged telemovie from the son of Mario Bava, which severs any connection with previous DEMONS films with the tale of an American…
Dreaming, The (1988)
- Dir. Mario Andreacchio
Feat. Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet
- A supernatural oddity in which a doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds…
Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) (1988)
- Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg…
- High camp fun with real–life cult horror movie host Elvira, in her first acting role. Canny blend of tongue–in–cheek innuendo and…
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind…
- William Ragsdale returns as Charley Brewster, now a college freshman who is tormented by the undead sister of the vampire from the first film. While…
Hellraiser 2: Hellbound (1988)
- Dir. Tony Randel
Feat. Doug Bradley, Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham
- Ok sequel dishes up plenty of grim, garish special effects as the teenage heroine of the original confronts Pinhead, this time in the corridors of…
Jack's Back (1988)
- Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. James Spader
- James Spader plays a reincarnated Jack the Ripper plaguing the streets of modern–day L.A.
Juvenatrix (1988)
- Dir. Brian Thomas Jones
Feat. Vivian Lanko, John Mackay, James Hogue
- Aging woman commissions 'youth serum', with horrible side–effects. True 80s schlock.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Dir. Stephen Chiodo
Feat. Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
- Smalltown folk are harvested by blood–drinking alien clowns in this novelty horror confection. Has something of a reputation, but that doesn't…