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page 11980s serial killer films
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 film directed by Wes Craven
Friday the 13th
1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Friday the 13th Part III
1982 film directed by Steve Miner
Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 film directed by Steve Miner
The Dead Pool
1988 film by Buddy Van Horn
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 film by Jack Sholder
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 film by Joseph Zito
Halloween II
1981 film by Rick Rosenthal
Cobra
1986 film by George P. Cosmatos
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper
Sea of Love
1989 film by Harold Becker
Manhunter
1986 film by Michael Mann
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1985 film directed by Danny Steinmann
The Howling
1981 film by Joe Dante
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986 film directed by John McNaughton
Cruising
1980 film by William Friedkin
Tenebrae
1982 film by Dario Argento
Tightrope
1984 film by Clint Eastwood, Richard Tuggle
Phenomena
1985 film by Dario Argento
Maniac Cop
1988 film directed by William Lustig
The Hidden
1987 film by Jack Sholder
The Vanishing
1988 film by George Sluizer
My Bloody Valentine
1981 film directed by George Mihalka
Shocker
1989 film by Wes Craven
The Element of Crime
1984 film by Lars von Trier
Black Widow
1987 film directed by Bob Rafelson
Happy Birthday to Me
1981 film by J. Lee Thompson
Sleepaway Camp
1983 film by Robert Hiltzik
Cutting Class
1989 film by Rospo Pallenberg
Maniac
1980 film by William Lustig
10 to Midnight
1983 film by J. Lee Thompson
Hero and the Terror
1988 film by William Tannen
Santa Sangre
1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Amsterdamned
Amsterdamned is a 1988 Dutch crime thriller with slasher film elements directed and written by Dick Maas, and stars Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, and Serge-Henri Valcke. The plot revolves around a serial killer who uses the famed canals of the Amsterdam to murder random people, one of which involves a detective's girlfriend linked to the murders.
The First Deadly Sin
1980 film by Brian G. Hutton
The New York Ripper
1982 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
1988 film directed by Michael A. Simpson
Anguish
1987 film by Bigas Luna
The Funhouse
1981 film by Tobe Hooper
Dead & Buried
1981 American film by Gary Sherman
Antropophagus
Antropophagus (also known as Anthropophagus: The Beast, The Savage Island, and The Grim Reaper) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato, co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman, and starring Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini, Mark Bodin, and Eastman, who portrays a cannibal stalking tourists on a remote island.
The Slumber Party Massacre
1982 film by Amy Holden Jones
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
1989 film directed by Michael A. Simpson
Rampage
1987 film directed by William Friedkin
Hell Night
1981 film by Tom DeSimone
The Boys Next Door
1985 film directed by Penelope Spheeris
The House on the Edge of the Park
1980 film by Ruggero Deodato
Pieces
1982 Spanish horror film directed by Juan Piquer Simón
The Mean Season
1985 film by Phillip Borsos
Cop
1988 film by James B. Harris
The Horror Show
1989 film directed by James Isaac
Angst
1983 Austrian film directed by Gerald Kargl
Crawlspace
1986 film by David Schmoeller
Fade to Black
1980 film by Vernon Zimmerman
Strangler vs. Strangler
1984 film by Slobodan Šijan
Night Warning
1982 film by William Asher
Death Valley
1982 film by Dick Richards
Angel
1984 film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill
The Doctor and the Devils
1985 film by Freddie Francis
Schizoid
1980 film by David Paulsen