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Psychological Horror Movies of the 1980s

Psychological horror unsettles through paranoia and a mind coming apart, rather than monsters. Video stores, practical effects and franchise slashers made the 1980s horror's boom years. Standouts from the 1980s include The Thing, Videodrome and The 'Burbs.

  1. The Thing (1982)

    Rated 8.1 on TMDB

    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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  2. Videodrome (1983)

    Rated 7.2 on TMDB

    As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers.

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  3. The 'Burbs (1989)

    Rated 6.8 on TMDB

    When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an…

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  4. The Dead Zone (1983)

    Rated 7.0 on TMDB

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.

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  5. The Hitcher (1986)

    Rated 7.0 on TMDB

    On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of…

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  6. Santa Sangre (1989)

    Rated 7.2 on TMDB

    A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

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  7. Without Warning (1980)

    Rated 5.1 on TMDB

    When a mountain town is besieged by aliens, stranded teens Sandy and Greg team up with a local hunter as a paranoid war vet becomes convinced they're the enemy.

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  8. Communion (1989)

    Rated 5.4 on TMDB

    A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

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  9. Manhunter (1986)

    Rated 7.0 on TMDB

    FBI Agent Will Graham, retired after catching notorious cannibal Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

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