80s Haunted House Movies
The 80s gave movie fans an entire decade of memorable horror films, but some of the best and most terrifying haunted house films have been forgotten! "The Shining", "Evil Dead II", "Beetlejuice", "The Evil Dead", & "Poltergeist" are on The Top 100 Haunted House Films of the 1980s on Flickchart. The 1980s were ripe with memorable haunted house horror movies. From Poltergeist to the film that inspired Resident Evil, here are the best.
![[Film] Ghosthouse (1988)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8rgFS1Z67ew/UGAsfuBU4iI/AAAAAAAADjk/t-0q2NSYMMQ/s1600/la-casa-3-ghosthouse.jpg "[Film] Ghosthouse (1988)")
From blood-soaked summer camps and sinister sororities to mind-bending nightmares and haunted mansions, the '80s delivered a golden era of inventive, over. Though Kubricks epic horror film may fail to tell the story told in Stephen Kings classic novel. 100 Best '80s Horror Movies The latest: Stephen King dug up a cult classic when he wrote the story for Pet Sematary.
Welcome to Camp Rotten! We've got lakes for skinny dipping, Necronomicons for candle-lit reading, and your esteemed camp counselors: A finer breed of spurned psychos, unstable writers, and sarcastic undead you'll never meet. A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Shining (1980), The Entity (1982), The Evil Dead (1981), Beetlejuice (1988) and Amityville II: The Possession (1982). About this list: This is part of a series of "ten best haunted house films per decade" lists.
I am including any film where the haunting is basically centered on a location. Buoyed by one of the all-time-great horror-movie posters, this cult classic hybridizes the slasher film and the manor-house murder mystery, detailing a weekend getaway for a group of college kids. Arguably the most important, inspirational, and terrifying decade for horror films, the '80s masterfully blended and expanded upon the genre and helped create what we know it as today, while simultaneously scaring the living daylights out of anyone who dared to check out these films.
From campy. 70's-era horror laid the groundwork for the modern horror film. Then the 80's built a haunted house sideshow on top of it.
Vintage horror standbys - vampires, zombies, ghosts, werewolves - were given new, um, life, while a seriously freaky band of new monsters made sure we didn't sleep well for a while.
