1980s slasher films

1984 film directed by Wes Craven

1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham

1981 film directed by Steve Miner

1988 film by Tom Holland

1982 film directed by Steve Miner

1987 film by Wes Craven, Chuck Russell

1985 film by Jack Sholder

1984 film by Joseph Zito

1981 film by Rick Rosenthal

1986 film by George P. Cosmatos

1988 film by Renny Harlin

1989 film directed by Stephen Hopkins

1980 film directed by John Carpenter

1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper

1988 film directed by Dwight H. Little

1980 US film directed by Brian De Palma

1989 film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

1985 film directed by Danny Steinmann

1986 film by Tom McLoughlin

1986 film by Anthony Perkins

1988 film by John Carl Buechler

1983 film by Richard Franklin

1989 film directed by Rob Hedden

1980 film by William Friedkin

1984 film directed by Brian De Palma

1982 film by Dario Argento

1980 film directed by Dario Argento

1985 film by Dario Argento

1988 film directed by William Lustig

1980 film directed by Paul Lynch

1984 film by Charles Sellier

1981 film directed by George Mihalka

1989 film by Wes Craven

1981 film by Wes Craven

1982 film by Michael Miller

1982 film by Jack Sholder

1981 film by J. Lee Thompson

1981 film by Joseph Zito

1983 film by Robert Hiltzik

1980 film directed by Armand Mastroianni

1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky

1980 Canadian film by Roger Spottiswoode

1989 film by Rospo Pallenberg

1981 film by Tony Maylam

1980 film by William Lustig

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.

1982 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1988 film directed by Michael A. Simpson

1987 film by Bigas Luna

1982 film by Mark Rosman

1981 film by Tobe Hooper

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.

1986 film by Fred Walton

1987 film by Michele Soavi

Witchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on college student Linda Brewster who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was left behind at her party. She is subsequently terrorized and eventually possessed by the spirit of malevolent serial killer Carlos Malfeitor, who committed a series of axe murders in the 1930s.

1982 film by Amy Holden Jones

1989 film directed by Michael A. Simpson

1987 film directed by Lee Harry

1981 film by Tom DeSimone

1989 film by Scott Spiegel