Folk Horror Movies of the 1980s
Folk horror finds terror in isolated villages, old rites and the pull of the land. Video stores, practical effects and franchise slashers made the 1980s horror's boom years. Standouts from the 1980s include Cannibal Holocaust, Hellraiser and Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal…
See where it’s streamingHellraiser (1987)
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites.
See where it’s streamingHalloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rated 5.3 on TMDB
After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr.
See where it’s streamingChildren of the Corn (1984)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
See where it’s streamingAltered States (1980)
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness.
See where it’s streamingThe Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
See where it’s streamingThe Stuff (1985)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out…
See where it’s streamingThe Seventh Curse (1986)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a…
See where it’s streamingThe Believers (1987)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic…
See where it’s streamingDead & Buried (1981)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
See where it’s streamingSpellbinder (1988)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend.
See where it’s streamingEaten Alive! (1980)
Rated 5.2 on TMDB
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
See where it’s streamingHollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
Los Angeles private eye Jack Chandler is hired by a worried mother to find her missing runaway daughter, Samantha.
See where it’s streamingBad Dreams (1988)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader.
See where it’s streamingThe Initiation (1984)
Rated 5.5 on TMDB
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.
See where it’s streamingNight School (1981)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.
See where it’s streamingThe Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
See where it’s streamingSuperstition (1982)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
See where it’s streamingEyes of Fire (1983)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western…
See where it’s streamingNight of the Demon (1980)
Rated 4.8 on TMDB
An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
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