1988
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1. Ghosthouse (1988)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers, Ron Houck
Votes: 2,955
EA: 31.01.1988
DVD: Ghosthouse (german) (LFG)
2. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
A sex-changed slasher returns as a camp counselor.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman
Votes: 13,341
EA: 28.02.1988
Blu-Ray: Sleepaway Camp II (engl.) (88 Films / Slasher Classics Collection #17)
3. Phantom of Death (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Michael York, Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, Mapi Galán
Votes: 1,087
EA: 11.03.1988
DVD: Phantom of Death (engl.) (Shameless Screen Entertainment)
4. Bad Dreams (1988)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron
Votes: 4,352 | Gross: $9.80M
EA: 08.04.1988
BluRay: Bad Dreams (engl.) (88 Films / Slasher Classics Collection #37)
5. Rat Man (1988)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
A fashion model is murdered on a Caribbean island, and her sister investigates with her friend Fred, uncovering a horrifying rat-like creature which Fred kills, but the true horror is just beginning.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Eva Grimaldi, Luisa Menon
Votes: 975
EA: 20.04.1988
DVD: Ratman (engl.) (Shameless #12)
6. The Commander (1988)
105 min | Action, War
A Major leads a group of mercenaries whose mission is to protect a disc full of secrets, located in South Asia.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Manfred Lehmann
Votes: 454
EA: 28.04.1988
DVD: Commander, Der (german) (Elite DVD)
7. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,734 | Gross: $0.11M
EA: 20.05.1988
DVD: Not Of This Earth (engl.) (Shout! Factory / Roger Corman's Cult Classics)
8. Willow (1988)
PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh
Votes: 129,840 | Gross: $57.27M
EA: 20.05.1988
DVD: Willow (german) (20th Century Fox)
9. Paradiso infernale (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.
Director: Antonio Climati | Stars: Marco Merlo, Fabrizio Merlo, May Deseligny, Pio Maria Federici
Votes: 986
EA: 25.05.1988
BluRay: Green Inferno (engl.) (88 Films / The Italian Collection # 49)
10. Ghost Town (1988)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Western
A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.
Directors: Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg | Stars: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust
Votes: 1,819
EA: 26.05.1988
MediaBook: Ghost Town (german) (Wicked Vision / L.C.E. #12 / Cover A)
11. Nightmare Sisters (1988)
Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Three geeky college girls who can't get a date, organize a seance and become sex starved vamps.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer, Timothy Kauffman
Votes: 1,871
EA: 15.06.1988
DVD: Nightmare Sisters (engl.) (88 Films / The Best Of The 80's Scream Queens)
12. Grotesque (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
A gang of crazed punks breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away.
Director: Joe Tornatore | Stars: Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes, Brad Wilson
Votes: 1,348
EA; 30.06.1988
DVD: Grotesque (engl.) (on Box "Roger Corman's Cult Classics All Night Marathon: Vampires, Mummies & Monsters" / Shout Factory)
13. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,496
EA: 30.06.1988
DVD: Zombi 3 (Lucio Fulci Collection)
Blu-Ray: Zombi 3 (engl.) (88 films / The Italian Collection #09)
14. Phantasm II (1988)
R | 97 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, meets with Reggie, and discover his dreams (the events of the original film) are real, and they both journey to find and stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.
Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Paula Irvine
Votes: 16,754 | Gross: $7.28M
EA: 08.07.1988
MediaBook: Phantasm II (german) (Black Hill/Koch Media)
15. Monkey Shines (1988)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 13,027 | Gross: $5.34M
EA: 29.07.1988
DVD: Affe Im Menschen, Der (german) (20th Century Fox / MGM / Horror Cult Uncut #7)
16. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
R | 93 min | Horror
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, John Beckman, Kisha Brackel
Votes: 61,623 | Gross: $49.37M
EA: 19.08.1988
DVD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (engl.) (on Box "The Nightmare on Elm Street / Entertainment in Video /7-Disc Set)
17. Hero and the Terror (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Danny was lucky 3 years ago at the arrest of Terror, a serial killer of young women. Danny's about to be a dad, when Terror escapes prison and is back killing. Will Danny get lucky this time?
Director: William Tannen | Stars: Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran
Votes: 4,424 | Gross: $5.30M
EA: 26.08.1988
DVD: Hero (german) (20th Century Fox / Action Cult Uncut #9)
18. Scarecrows (1988)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
Director: William Wesley | Stars: Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn
Votes: 5,648
EA: 26.08.1988
BluRay: Scarecrows (engl.) (88 Films / Classic Slasher Collection #16)
19. Space Mutiny (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Directors: David Winters, Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, James Ryan, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 7,393
EA: 31.08.1988
DVD: Space Mutiny (german) (Science Fiction Classic Box Vol.2)
20. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
Kirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld.
Director: Tony Randel | Stars: Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 56,123 | Gross: $11.09M
EA: 09.09.1988
DVD: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (german) (in Hellraiser I-III SteelBox)
21. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
Director: James Signorelli | Stars: Cassandra Peterson, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins, Damita Jo Freeman
Votes: 20,849 | Gross: $5.60M
EA: 30.09.1988
Blu-Ray: Elvira - Mistress Of The Dark (german) (Indigo / Tin-Box)
22. Jack the Ripper (1988)
TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.
Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins
Votes: 5,675
EA: 11.10.1988
DVD: Jack The Ripper (german) (I-On New Media)
23. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George P. Wilbur
Votes: 58,640 | Gross: $17.77M
EA: 21.10.1988
DVD: Halloween IV - The return of Michael Myers (german) (Remastered Edition / TB Horror Productions)
24. Shadow of the Raven (1988)
124 min | Adventure, Drama
Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other ... See full summary »
Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Stars: Reine Brynolfsson, Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Egill Ólafsson, Sune Mangs
Votes: 874
EA: 23.10.1988
DVD: Rache des Wikingers 2, Die (german) (MIG)
25. Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Director: Skip Schoolnik | Stars: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, George Thomas
Votes: 2,020
EA: 01.11.1988
BluRay: Hide And Go Shriek (engl.) (88 Films / Slasher Classics #26)
26. Child's Play (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Votes: 116,718 | Gross: $33.24M
EA: 09.11.1988
DVD: Chucky - Die Mörderpuppe (german) (20th Century Fox / MGM / Horror Cult Uncut #3)
27. Dial Help (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Charlotte Lewis, Marcello Modugno, Mattia Sbragia, Carola Stagnaro
Votes: 562
EA: 10.11.1988
DVD: Dial:Help (german) (e-m-s)
28. Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988 Video)
R | 94 min | Horror
A successful author moves to a small town after suffering a mental breakdown and is tormented by demons and werewolves.
Directors: John Hough, Clive Turner | Stars: Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton, Susanne Severeid
Votes: 3,174
EA: 30.11.1988
DVD: Howling (german) (on Box "Howling Box - Movie Edition" / Marketing Film)
29. Fair Game (1988)
R | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake.
Director: Mario Orfini | Stars: Trudie Styler, Gregg Henry, Bill Moseley
Votes: 620
EA: 30.11.1988
DVD: Mamba (german) (on Box "Snakes in a Box" / Anolis)
30. Prime Evil (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror
A coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies.
Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: William Beckwith, Christine Moore, Mavis Harris, Max Jacobs
Votes: 946
EA: 31.12.1988
DVD: Prime Evil - Im Namen des Satans (german) (marketing film)
31. I Saw What You Did (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A group of pranksters unintentionally gets the attention of a serial killer who soon starts targeting them.
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Tammy Lauren, Candace Cameron Bure, Robert Carradine
Votes: 933
32. Messenger of Death (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali
Votes: 3,362 | Gross: $3.07M
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