List of horror films of 1988

A list of horror films released in 1988.

Horror films released in 1988

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
After Death	Claudio Fragasso	Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni		[1]
American Gothic	John Hough	Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo
Bad Dreams	Andrew Fleming	Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott		[2]
Beyond Dream's Door	Jay Woelfel	Rick Kesler, Nick Baldasare, Susan Pinsky		[3]
Black Roses	John Fasano	John Martin, Frank Dietz, Jesse D'Angelo		[4]
The Blob	Chuck Russell	Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith		Film remake[5]
Blood Relations	Graeme Campbell	Jan Rubes, Lydie Denier		[6]
The Brain	Ed Hunt	David Gale, Cynthia Preston		[7]
Brain Damage	Frank Henenlotter	Rick Hearst		[8]
Celia	Ann Turner	Rebecca Smart
Cellar Dweller	John Carl Buechler	Yvonne De Carlo		[9]
Cheerleader Camp	John Quinn	Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Rebecca Ferratti		[10]
Child's Play	Tom Holland	Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent		[11]
Chillers	Daniel Boyd	Jesse Emery, Kimberly Harbour, Thom Delventhal		[12]
Curse II: The Bite	Frederico Prosperi	Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck		[13]
Curse of the Blue Lights	John Henry Johnson	Brent Ritter, Bettina Julius, Clayton A. McCaw		[14]
Dead Heat	Mark Goldblatt	Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Vincent Price		[15]
Dead Mate	Straw Weisman	Elizabeth Mannino, David Gregory, Larry Bockius		[16]
Deadly Dreams	Kristine Peterson	Juliette Cummins, Mitchell Anderson, Xander Berkeley
Dial Help	Ruggero Deodato	Charlotte Lewis, Marcello Modugno, Mattia Sbragia
Dinner With a Vampire	Lamberto Bava	George Hilton, Patrizia Pellegrino, Isabel Russinova		Television film[17]
The Discarnates	Nobuhiko Obayashi	Tsurutarō Kataoka, Yûko Natori, Kenjirō Ishimaru
Dracula's Widow	Christopher Coppola	Sylvia Kristel, Lenny von Dohlen		[18]
Dream Demon	Harley Cokeliss	Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Timothy Spall		[19]
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark	James Signorelli	Cassandra Peterson, Edie McClurg		[20]
Evil Dead Trap	Toshiharu Ikeda	Miyuki Ono		[21]
Evil Laugh	Dominick Brascia	Kim McKamy
Faceless	Jesus Franco	Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas		[22]
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood	John Carl Buechler	Jennifer Banko, Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Spirtas		[23]
Fright Night II	Tommy Lee Wallace	Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale		[24]
Ghost Town	Richard Governor	Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs		[25]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	Dwight H. Little	Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris		[26]
Heart of Midnight	Matthew Chapman	Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Vaccaro, Jack Hallett		[27]
Hellbound: Hellraiser II	Tony Randel	Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Richard Waugh		[28]
Hide and Go Shriek	Skip Schoolnik	Brittain Frye, Donna Baltron
Hobgoblins	Rick Sloane	Tamara Clatterbuck, Kari French, Duane Whitaker
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers	Fred Olen Ray	Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley, Jay Richardson		[29]
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare	John Hough	Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss, Anthony Hamilton		[30]
Iced	Jeff Kwitny	Debra A. Deliso, Doug Stevenson, Ron Kologie		[31]
The Jitters	John Fasano	Sal Viviano, Marilyn Tokuda, James Hong		[32]
Killer Klowns from Outer Space	Stephen Chiodo	Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson		[33]
The Kiss	Pen Densham	Joanna Pacuła, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk		[34]
The Lair of the White Worm	Ken Russell	Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg		[35]
Lone Wolf	John Callas	Luciano Saber, Ann Douglas, Kevin Hart		[36]
Maniac Cop	William Lustig	Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell		[37]
Matinee	Richard Martin	Ron White, Gillian Barber, Jeff Schultz		Alternative titles   Also known as:Midnight Matinee. [38]
Memorial Valley Massacre	Robert C. Hughes	John Kerry, Mark Mears, John Caso, Cameron Mitchell		[39] Alternative titles   Also known as:Valley of Death (USA) (video title).
Midnight Movie Massacre	Mark Stock, Laurence Jacobs	Ann Robinson, Tamara Sue Hill, Jeanne Beachwood		[40]
Monkey Shines	George A. Romero	Jason Beghe		[41]
The Moonlight Sonata	Olli Soinio	Tiina Björkman		[42]
Månguden	Jonas Cornell	Agneta Ekmanner, Heinz Hopf, Tomas Laustiola
Necromancer	Dusty Nelson	Elizabeth Kaitan, Russ Tamblyn, John Tyler		[43]
The Nest	Terence H. Winkless	Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois		[44]
Night of the Demons	Kevin Tenney	Alvin Alexis, Allison Barron, Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Cathy Podewell		[45]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	Renny Harlin	Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Rodney Eastman		[46]
Not of This Earth	Jim Wynorski	Traci Lords, Ace Mask, Becky LeBeau		[47]
The Ogre: Demons 3	Lamberto Bava	Paolo Malco, Virginia Bryant, Sabrina Ferilli		Television film[48]
Out of the Body	Brian Trenchard-Smith	Mark Hembrow, Tessa Humphries		[49]
Phantasm II	Don Coscarelli	James LeGros, Reggie Bannister		[50]
Phantom Brother	William Szarka	Jon Hammer, Patrick Molloy
Pin...	Sandor Stern	David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn		Alternative titles   Also known as:Pin: A Plastic Nightmare (Canada: English title). [51]
Poltergeist III	Gary Sherman	Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke		[52]
Prison	Renny Harlin	Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith		[53]
Pulse	Paul Golding	Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence		[54]
Pumpkinhead	Stan Winston	Lance Henriksen, Florence Schauffler, Jeff East		[55]
Rabid Grannies	Emmanuel Kervyn	Caroline Braeckman, Elie Lison, Catherine Aymerie
Ratman	Giuliano Carnimeo	Nelson de la Rosa, Werner Pochath, David Warbeck, Eva Grimaldi		[56]
Return of the Living Dead Part II	Ken Wiederhorn	James Karen, Thom Matthews, Michael Kenworthy		[57]
Scarecrows	William Wesley	Mike Balog, David Campbell		[58]
The Serpent and the Rainbow	Wes Craven	Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae		[59]
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers	Michael A. Simpson	Pamela Springsteen, Brian Patrick Clarke, Renée Estevez		[60]
Slime City	Greg Lamberson	T.J. Merrick, Bunny Levine, Dick Biel
Slugs	Juan Piquer Simón	Michael Garfield		[61]
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama	Ellen Cabot	Andras Jones, Robin Stille, Linnea Quigley		[62]
Spellbinder	Janet Greek	Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich		[63]
Tales from the Gimli Hospital	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck		[64]
The Unholy	Camilo Vila	Ben Cross, Ned Beatty, Claudia Robinson		[65]
Uninvited	Greydon Clark	Alex Cord, George Kennedy, Shari Shattuck		[66]
Unmasked Part 25	Anders Palm	Edward Brayshaw, Gary Brown, Gregory Cox		[67]
The Unnamable	Jean-Paul Ouellette	Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell		[68]
Veerana	Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay	Gulshan Grover, Sahila Chaddha, Hemant Birje		[69]
Watchers	Jon D. Hess	Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, Michael Ironside		[70]
Waxwork	Anthony Hickox	Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, David Warner		[71]
When Alice Broke the Mirror	Lucio Fulci	Brett Halsey		[72]
Witchcraft	Rob Spera	Anat Topol, Gary Sloan, Mary Shelley, Lee Kissman		[73]
Witchery	Fabrizio Laurenti, Martin Newlin	David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Catherine Hickland		[74]
Zombi 3	Lucio Fulci, Bruno Mattei	Marina Loi, Alex Mc Bride, Richard Raymond		[75]

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