Donnie Darko (2001), American Psycho (2000), Grindhouse (2007), The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), It (2017), Doctor Sleep (2019), Planet Terror (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Retro Horror movies.
Storyline: Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.
Plot Keywords: lumberjack, cult, surrealism, biker, revenge, cult leader, year 1983 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy's world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. Tyler Burnside is a Boy Scout, a volunteer at his local church, and the dutiful son of an upstanding, community leader dad. Only one thing troubles the quiet Kentucky town he lives in: the unsolved murders in which ten women were brutally tortured and killed by a psychopath known as Clovehitch, which rocked the community more than a decade ago. When Tyler discovers a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession, he begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be Clovehitch, and that his deadly rampage may not be over. With unrelenting tension, director Duncan Skiles crafts a picture-perfect vision of the all-American family and then piece by piece rips it to shreds.—Andrew Lauer
Plot Keywords: church, coming of age, double life, religious, boy scout, mother son relationship, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Plot Keywords: retro horror, blonde, bound and gagged, premarital sex, rape, twenty dollar bill, barefoot woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the Chase family moves to an isolated house in the middle of nowhere in Detroit, Arkin is hired to fix the windows and the doors. Later he meets his daughter and his wife that has a debt with dangerous sharks and needs money, but his week payment is not enough to pay her debts. Arkin plots to heist the safe of Michael Chase during the night to raise the necessary money. However, when he arrives in the house, he finds that a sadistic criminal has imprisoned the family and planted traps everywhere. Arkin seeks a way out of the deadly house to save his life.
Plot Keywords: trap, masked killer, slasher, burglar, home invasion, psychopath, death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story sees three wealthy, middle-aged CEOs - all married family men - get together for their annual hunting game in a desert canyon. It's a way for them to let off steam and affirm their manhood with guns. But this time, one of them has come along with his young mistress, who quickly arouses the interest of the two others. Things get out of hand and she is left for dead in the middle of this arid hell. However, the young woman is very much alive, and the hunting game turns into a ruthless manhunt.
Plot Keywords: revenge, male rear nudity, violence, male nudity, desert, rape and revenge, male frontal nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Plot Keywords: movie studio, post punk, giallo, retro horror, retro, repeated scene, psychotronic film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
Plot Keywords: vigilante, shotgun, hobo, rampage, gore, homeless person, sadism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?
Plot Keywords: serial killer, remake, female nudity, slasher, female full frontal nudity, female frontal nudity, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the eve of Halloween, on October 1977, four friends--Bill, Jerry, Mary, and Denise--embark on an exciting cross-country road trip to write a guidebook about offbeat roadside attractions in America's less-travelled roads. Before long, the young explorers chance upon Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, only to become infatuated with the local legend of a deranged serial-killer doctor, and cross paths with the mysterious hitchhiker, Baby. However, when the unsuspecting group meets Baby's eccentric family after having a flat tyre, an endless night of terror, torture, and murder ensues. Has anyone ever got out alive from the House of Thousand Corpses?
Plot Keywords: depravity, masked man, sadism, sadistic psychopath, year 1977, blood, evil man ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Spanning over two decades of research and innovation from the 1960s to the early-1980s, the Arboria Institute--a secluded New Age commune and a state-of-the-art research facility--and the pill-popping psychiatrist, Dr Barry Nyle, are particularly interested in their newest specimen: the female patient, Elena. To begin to understand her mind-boggling telekinetic and telepathic abilities, the demented doctor keeps Elena heavily sedated and in a constant catatonic state; however, her capabilities are unfathomable. What are Dr Nyle's deeper intentions? In the end, could the institute's utopian doctrine be flawed after all?
Plot Keywords: therapy session, doctor patient relationship, doctor, patient, year 1983, futuristic, canuxploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Sheriff Deputy Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.
Plot Keywords: tentacle, h.p. lovecraft, gore, mutation, cult, police officer, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul (Andrew Sensenig) and Anne (Barbara Crampton) move to the quiet New York countryside to try to start a new life for themselves. But the grieving couple unknowingly becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their new home, and before long they discover that the seemingly peaceful town they've moved into is hiding a terrifyingly dark secret. Now they must find a way to overcome their sorrow and fight back against both the living and dead as the malicious ghosts threaten to pull their souls - and the soul of their lost son - into hell with them.
Plot Keywords: title at the end, newspaper headline, mortuary, close up of eyes, stabbed in the neck, double barreled shotgun, shot in the head ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The outcast cinema student, Stephen Grace, does not drive cars due to the trauma of losing his brother in a car accident. He befriends, Quaid, who since the age of 6 has experienced dreadful nightmares and daydreams about the death of his parents. Quaid proposes they research about each one's innermost fear. Stephen sees the chance of developing an original thesis for college and invites his friend, Cheryl, to work with them. Among the interviewees, Stephen talks to his colleague, Abby who works with him in the library. Abby has a complex about the way she looks. When the work is almost complete, Quaid has an outburst at one interviewee's and ends up destroying the camera and editing equipment. Stephen begins to re-evaluate the situation.
Plot Keywords: birthmark, punched in the face, murder, maggot, hospital, held captive, cruelty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: gay, bare chested male, male underwear, male rear nudity, topless female nudity, closeted homosexual, black and white scene ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.
Plot Keywords: topless female nudity, killer clown, evil clown, halloween costume, slasher, clown, halloween ...
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