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List of horror movies released in 1983 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1983.
Plot / Synopsis: Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her...
Tagline: Of all the worlds in all the galaxies...why did they pick this one?...
Director: Michael Laughlin Stars: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher
Plot / Synopsis: Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Tagline: Behind Every Curtain, Someone Is Watching...Something Is Waiting...
Director: Richard Ciupka Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn, Lynne Griffin
Plot / Synopsis: Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgeable of...
Director: Michael Mann Stars: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne
Plot / Synopsis: A composer, working in isolation on a score for a horror movie meets two women who used to know his house's former tenant. When the women disappear, he's forced to look into the film he's working on to determine what happened to them, and who's responsible.
Tagline: When the lights go out, the knife goes in...
Director: Lamberto Bava Stars: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli
Plot / Synopsis: Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make...
Director: Douglas McKeown Stars: Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler, Karen Tighe
Plot / Synopsis: Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon...
Tagline: One man's search for an ancient secret...and the dead will rise from their graves!...
Director: Pupi Avati Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti, Bob Tonelli
Plot / Synopsis: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
Tagline: The terrifying last word in home invasion from the director of "Tombstone" and "Cobra."...
Director: George P. Cosmatos Stars: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Louis Del Grande
Plot / Synopsis:
A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them...
Tagline:
Take the Stairs, Take the Stairs. For God's Sake, Take the Stairs!!!...
Director: Dick Maas Stars: Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum, Liz Snoyink, Wiske Sterringa
Plot / Synopsis: Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.Tagline: Now there's a new name for terror...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter
Plot / Synopsis: A reverend, Will Smythe, and his followers are chased out of town after Smythe is accused of adultery and polygamy. Joined by a rugged woodsman, Marion Dalton, who wants his cheating wife, the group ventures into a valley, where dwells an ancient evil spirit. As members of the group start to disappear, the witch-bred, insane Leah must discover how...
Director: Avery Crounse Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Karlene Crockett
Plot / Synopsis: An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours...
Tagline: Room for every nightmare... A nightmare in every room...
Director: Pete Walker Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz Jr., John Carradine
Plot / Synopsis: Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.
Tagline: ...you won't be coming home!...
Director: Robert Hiltzik Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet, Mike Kellin
Plot / Synopsis: Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series "The Twilight Zone" (1959).Tagline: On June 24th, four acclaimed directors, George Miller, John Landis, Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg take you to another dimension...
Directors: Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller … Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan
Plot / Synopsis: A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
Tagline: Nothing Human Loves Forever...
Director: Tony Scott Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers
Plot / Synopsis: After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.Tagline: Norman Bates is back. Coming home was a bad mistake!...
Director: Richard Franklin Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
Plot / Synopsis: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.Tagline: She'll possess you. Then destroy you. She's death on wheels. She's...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot / Synopsis: A man is released from prison after serving ten years for murdering an elderly woman. He quickly begins to feel the compulsion to kill again. After failing to murder a cab driver, he flees and discovers a secluded rural home, where a young woman lives with her sick mother and disabled brother. He then begins to take out his...
Director: Gerald Kargl Stars: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Ryder, Karin Springer, Edith Rosset
Plot / Synopsis: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Tagline: First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson
Plot / Synopsis: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Tagline: First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson
Plot / Synopsis: Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Tagline: Behind Every Curtain, Someone Is Watching...Something Is Waiting...
Director: Richard Ciupka Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn, Lynne Griffin
Plot / Synopsis: After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.Tagline: Norman Bates is back. Coming home was a bad mistake!...
Director: Richard Franklin Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz
Plot / Synopsis: Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her...
Tagline: Of all the worlds in all the galaxies...why did they pick this one?...
Director: Michael Laughlin Stars: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher
Plot / Synopsis: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.Tagline: She'll possess you. Then destroy you. She's death on wheels. She's...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot / Synopsis: Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.Tagline: Now there's a new name for terror...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter
Plot / Synopsis: A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
Tagline: Nothing Human Loves Forever...
Director: Tony Scott Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers
Plot / Synopsis: A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
Tagline: The terrifying last word in home invasion from the director of "Tombstone" and "Cobra."...
Director: George P. Cosmatos Stars: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Louis Del Grande
Plot / Synopsis: Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.
Tagline: ...you won't be coming home!...
Director: Robert Hiltzik Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet, Mike Kellin
Plot / Synopsis: A man is released from prison after serving ten years for murdering an elderly woman. He quickly begins to feel the compulsion to kill again. After failing to murder a cab driver, he flees and discovers a secluded rural home, where a young woman lives with her sick mother and disabled brother. He then begins to take out his...
Director: Gerald Kargl Stars: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Ryder, Karin Springer, Edith Rosset
Plot / Synopsis: Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series "The Twilight Zone" (1959).Tagline: On June 24th, four acclaimed directors, George Miller, John Landis, Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg take you to another dimension...
Directors: Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller … Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan
Plot / Synopsis: A reverend, Will Smythe, and his followers are chased out of town after Smythe is accused of adultery and polygamy. Joined by a rugged woodsman, Marion Dalton, who wants his cheating wife, the group ventures into a valley, where dwells an ancient evil spirit. As members of the group start to disappear, the witch-bred, insane Leah must discover how...
Director: Avery Crounse Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Karlene Crockett
Plot / Synopsis: An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours...
Tagline: Room for every nightmare... A nightmare in every room...
Director: Pete Walker Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz Jr., John Carradine
Plot / Synopsis: Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon...
Tagline: One man's search for an ancient secret...and the dead will rise from their graves!...
Director: Pupi Avati Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti, Bob Tonelli
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24 List of 1983 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1983 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1983 list are "The Dead Zone (1983), Videodrome (1983), Curtains (1983), Psycho II (1983), and Strange Invaders (1983)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, our movie fans and movie viewers like you, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 1983 is The Dead Zone (1983) scoring 7.43/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 81,540 votes for this movie. Starring in The Dead Zone (1983) is Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, and Anthony Zerbe. Director David Cronenberg did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1983 best horror film which was remarkable.The Dead Zone (1983) is in Horror, Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy movie genres.
The next best 1983 horror movie is Videodrome (1983) with a score of 7.07/10 stars.
James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky, and Leslie Carlson star in "Videodrome (1983)". Videodrome (1983) is directed by David Cronenberg and has over 110,340 IMDB votes. You can find Videodrome (1983) in Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, and Sci-Fi movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1983, and we hope you enjoy the 31 movies on our list of good 1983 horror movies sorted best to worst.
Please let us know if there is a movie that you think belongs on our list that we missed.
The next best 1983 horror movie is Videodrome (1983) with a score of 7.07/10 stars.
James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky, and Leslie Carlson star in "Videodrome (1983)". Videodrome (1983) is directed by David Cronenberg and has over 110,340 IMDB votes. You can find Videodrome (1983) in Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, and Sci-Fi movie genres.