1980s action horror films

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator, a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.

1988 film by John Carpenter

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.

1987 film by Jack Sholder

1989 film by George P. Cosmatos

1982 film by Chu Yen-ping

1984 film by Russell Mulcahy

1988 film directed by Mark Goldblatt

1987 film by Yoshiaki Kawajiri

1984 film directed by Sam Firstenberg

1990 film by René Manzor

1986 film by Lam Ngai Kai

1986 film by Nico Mastorakis

1989 Tamil film directed by Velu Prabhakaran