Top 10 '80s SLASHER Movies (You Might Not Have Seen) | Vol. 2 

I was born in 1971 and really miss walking into video stores aged 9-10 years old and being able to rent any horror movies i liked. I always remembered the video covers of Happy Birthday To Me, Driller Killer and The Exterminator.

I was in a Slasher film called Happy Hell Night that got shown allot on Cable and VHS back in 1986!

Nothing like an 80’s slasher. The forbidden section of blockbuster in my strict Catholic upbringing 😂 so I will always gravitate towards these lol. Fun fact, Happy Birthday to me starred Melissa Sue Anderson who was well known in the 80s for one of the most wholesome shows ever , Little House on the Prarie so for her to do an R rated horror movie was very controversial back then haha. Great picks!

I'd put Happy Birthday to Me higher personally. So good.

I'd totally forgotten about the slightly bizarre intro to "Killer Party", and I too was a fan of White Sister, "Happy Birthday To Me" is an 80s classic, great list!

Just found you two weeks ago. Love the energy and production value!

Put this channel on Freeview TV as a horror channel it would be great

"Happy Birthday to Me" Melissa Sue Anderson from the television series called "Little House on the Prairie" Glenn Ford from "Superman: The Movie" two actors - Matt Craven & Jack Blum from "Meatballs" I love these actors. I have seen this movie at least 365 times.

Just found your channel and love your content. Slasher, Universal and Hammer horror are my favorite genres so great to see you covering so many of my favorite movies!

Great list! I actually really liked "Curtains," despite its messy presentation. A more interesting plot than your typical slasher flick

April by White Sister is such a banger. I want to cover it so badly! Great vid man. Always look forward to watching your content weekly.

You listed a couple I haven't seen. Gonna check them out. Happy bday to me is pretty darn good. Same with curtains.

All of these movies are well known to slasher fans, I doubt anyone who is fan of 80s hasn't seen stuff like Happy Birthday to Me, etc, however I appreciate the video. You can never give exposure to these movies,. Btw, Happy Birthday to Me was indeed directed by J. Lee Thompson, and apparently producers weren't sure if he would accept to direct it as it was horror and he did far more prestigious movies during his career. However turns out he was more then excited to direct it as it was his one and only horror movie at the time and he kept screaming "more blood more blood!" when they were filming kill scenes.

No one gets walled up in The Black Cat. That was The Cask Of Amontillado.

Definitely another fun good list ! Great video!

Lynne Griffin starred in Curtains. She was Claire Harrison in Black Christmas 1974 🖤🎄...

A+ video! Awesome films, 80s slasher movies are so fun to watch especially the best ones!

Quick message to thank you for you brilliant channel! so many good recommendations! you passion for movies and horror in particular is contagious and it does come across very clearly in the way you articulate (very well also) your thoughts. Thanks a million for making horror RU-vid better!❤

Tons of homework for me here. Visiting Hours in particular. Thanks, man 10/10 fricheks

Just found your channel. So good!!! I collect horror and action on vhs. Love the recommendations.

Great list man. You gave me a few new ones to check out

Great list! Visiting Hours and Nightmare Beach are so fun.

Hi Daniel. This is a pretty cool list. My favourite is Buried Alive. xx

Great list! Killer Party is underrated and so fun! I just wished the Blu-ray had better special features and the movie itself was uncut and not so edited. But still an amazing movie and one of my favs!

Always a good day when Daniel drops a new video

Great list,thank you!

Thanks brother - lots I've not seen on these last two videos, which is unusual!!!

Superstition is very underrated. Its been about 6 years, and RU-vid-er "Drumdums" continues to ignore my requests for him to review it.

Another excellent list!

great list. I have yet to see Superstition and Buried Alive. Killer Party is my fav of this list for sure

Nice job. Great watch

In agreement with you regarding Visiting Hours- Lee Grant (Damien: Omen II) & Ironside are great!

Good stuff!!

Michael Ironside is perfect as a villain, but also is good as a hero!

I remember watching Nightmare Beach back in the day on Up All Night. It was called Welcome to Spring Break though then. Just found your channel and digging the content so far ✌️

I really like Superstition which was eventually released in England under the name The Witch but I can't find a copy now. Some good picks in your list 😊👍💜🐾

Just found your channel and have really been enjoying your videos! I just started getting in to "old movies". When I was younger, I refused to watch them. I've always loved 80's movies but, to me, they aren't old because if they're old, then that means I'm old!😂 Glad to see Superstition on this list!

Great picks! I love all of these and have seen each multiple times! I will suggest Evil Spirits. Its on Tubi. Karen Black essentially plays Dorothea Puente and absolutely kills (lol) it! Michael Berryman as a neurotic author, Debra Lamb as a mute ballerina who is obviously not all there and one of the greatest characters in any slasher: an old drunk who survived by being drunk! You need this in your life. Also, Dead Dudes in the House is waaay more entertaining (and brutal) that it has any right to be! Ive got many more suggestions. In fact, i filled two books with it!

I love Killer Party , that time of our lives song is an earworm :)

Love the content

I am 62 and was born in 1962 , i graduated high school in 1980. So yeah I have seen these actually im theaters or from blockbuster ❤❤

Great list!! You failed to mention the last movie had Lee Remick in it. She's from The Omen.

Wow, another 10 80s horror movies ive never heard of. Some of them do look pretty interesting. Ill be sure to look some of these up down the road.

I love Killer Party and the last 20 min are SO GOOD!

I would like to add as an honorable mention 1979's Tourist Trap, yes not in the 80's but the late 70's (1977-1979) really shaped the 80's. I mean the movies that started in the late 70's and continued into the 80's and beyond such as Star Wars, Jaws, Halloween, Superman, and Alien just to name a few. Music, how many times have we heard people call Journey, Van Halen, the Pretenders, Prince, Michael Jackson, and the Police as "80's" artist, So check out Tourist Trap too if you haven't seen it

x Going to watch Satan's Little Helper and Lowlifes tonight! x I added Edge of the Axe and Visiting Hours to my June Watchlist, very excited to see those!

I love everything about killer party

I need to check out some of those, in particular Eyes Of A Stranger.

I love love love Killer Party!!!!!

I can't believe you rate Night School and Curtains higher than Superstition.

Night school was dope!

Eyes of the Stranger sounds right up my alley !

I love the 80s, (i was born in 1980) especially for slashers. Before i watch this i'll list my top 10 which aren't part of a big franchise. Hopefully your list might give me a few more to check out. My tops which don't feature the likes of Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger are: 10 Party Line 1988 9 Final Exam 1981 8 Christmas Evil 1980 7 To All A Good Night 1980 6 Pieces 1984 5 Shocker 1989 4 Bloody Birthday 1981 3 Chopping Mall 1986 2 Offerings 1989 1 Visiting Hours 1982

Stagefright (1987) is a visually impressive movie with a one particularly mesmerizing scene and suspenseful sequence.

one of the best horror “hidden gems” list ever. I agree with ALL your picks.

Yesss a new video!!!!!!! 🎉😊😊

I would really suggest checking out a movie called Fatal Pulse, the full movie can be found on RU-vid. Its never gotten a true blu ray or dvd release for that matter but its fun, its cheesy, its got some menorable kills to it..just a fun 80s slasher to watch

Dead and Buried, The Prowler and the underrated Maniac. For good measure, I'll throw in Galaxy of Terror, which features Sid Haig and Robert Englund. Robert also appeared in Dead and Buried.

Really like and appreciate exposure to new films, so thanks for that - good, well-reasoned reviews too. That said, I'm not sure every horror film released in the 80s automatically classifies as a slasher film, just as every horror film from Italy is not a giallo. For instance: if there's a supernatural element, it's a supernatural thriller. Also, as mentioned in the clip, at least one of these *is* a giallo, which is not the same as a slasher. To the best of my understanding, a slasher film has a pretty narrow definition: multiple body-count, mostly point-of-view stalking murders, usually with some sort of big sharp weapon with an emphasis on gory practical effects, and either an opening setup explanation of the who/what/when/where/why of the killer [sometimes as a red herring], or a third-act scooby-doo unmasking. Some of the films here add up to all that, while others just include one or two of the conventions, and frankly, slashers are never supernatural thrillers, despite how the murder set-pieces play out. Great clip though - really enjoyed it.

OMG! I watched Killer Party when i was around 8 yo and I've been looking for that movie for the past 8 maybe 10 years but I didn't know its name till today while I'm watching this video!!! Thank you so much! Btw I'm 40!

The protagonist in ''Happy Birthday to Me'' is played by Melissa Sue Anderson of ''Little House on the Prairie'' fame. Other John Vernon films include ''Animal House'', ''The Outlaw Josie Wales'' and ''I'm Gonna Git You Sucka''.

Team Early! Love these lists!

Just noticed Visiting Hours is on Talking Pictures channel tonight at 9pm in the UK

First list was great. This one is even better because it has more surprises! I don't feel the section 3 nasty Superstition fits comfortably with the slasher subgenre as it's more of a haunted house movie with a body count. I do think it's a fun watch, though! I also agree that Happy Birthday to Me is overlong. I liked the lead, and I liked the dark conclusion, but it's not enough of a payoff, and for a slasher, I found myself really missing a good chase scene. Eyes of a Stranger, on the other hand, has some great suspense scenes. For me it teeters between the slashers proper and such movies as Don't Answer the Phone!, Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, Maniac, and Don't Go in the House, which are kinda-sorta slashery, but study the psyche and everyday life of the antagonist in a way that Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Burning, and House on Sorority Row don't. Finally, I'll say that your enthusiasm about Nightmare Beach has convinced me to give it another go - and Kino is putting out a 4k in July!

Even with the Scooby Doo reveal at the end, Happy Birthday To Me is one of my all time favorites. I almost squealed like heavily caffeinated child when I found a blu ray from the UK which has both sound tracks, the pop song opening and the scored haunting lullaby versions.

We here at the US Government are loving your videos! Keep it up Daniel.

I've been recomending Killer Party for many years. We used to view it and Night Of The Demons back to back. Ghosthouse is very much like Superstition. Both are fun haunted house type slashers.

I really enjoy this series, which gives someone like me who is new to the love of horror other things to check out besides the more popular ones that are always talked about 😊

What’s your review on bad dreams ? I think it’s a great film

I believe that's a young Nia Long in Buried Alive 😊

Curtains: Linda Thorson from the Avengers. I remember this movie! very odd.

Superstition (The Witch) was one of my favorites horror movies growing up in the 80s. Along With The Burning, Children of The Corn, The Boggy Man, Aliens, Halloween II and Amityville II : The Possession 🎬

Does Superstition have a scene with someone squished in a wine press. It's sounds very similar to something I saw in my teens and all I could recall were witch pond and a wine press.

Interesting list! I did see Happy Birthday to Me and Visiting Hours back in the day...I'll have to look them up again. I'm glad that you mentioned 10 to Midnight. I first watched it because I really like Lisa Eilbacher as an actress, and I ended up liking the movie.

Nightmare beach is so much fun

I'm wondering if the Cobwebs should venture into tv show reviews? I just learned that there was an interesting Friday 13th TV show on HBO in the late 80s I'd never heard of?

I like to look up for some Scream alike movies, the who dunnit stuff and some value production. You guys would like to recommend some of those?

I agree with Superstition. The Exorcist III in my opinion is another great supernatural slasher. Night School is a giallo because you got the mystery about who is the killer (who has the same outfit of the killer in “Who have they done to your daughters?” by Massimo Dallamano, 1974), you got the detective investigation. Otherwise we have no difference between a giallo movie and a slasher

A lot of great films u mentioned but EDGE OF THE AXE is awesome,I picked it up many yrs back on vhs for a $2 bucks

Can you send me a link to the first video I will appreciate it

I’ve heard about Superstition for decades …just never have checked it out ….just ordered the blu ray from Grindhouse video …Danza Macabra 3 looks promising also love your reviews …discovering old movies that flew over my radar makes life great

The window kill in superstition isn't actually a window cutting him in half it traps him and the witch hacks at him with a knife..

Burning is one of my favourites Of 80s one of slasher movies

Lifeforce and... Lifeforce. I know, not technically a slasher, but always worth recommending.

I don’t know if you mentioned pieces which is good and the first movie I seen when I was little

I watched Nightmare Beach 3 weeks ago.

John Vernon I think is best known as Dean Wormer :)

I only caught the 1st one yesterday... or the day before. Now I am very early 🙂

The synapse of the movies are fine but it would be nice if you would just mention the label who put the movie out 🤘💿🤘

maybe you or someone can help me figure out a name of a slasher, i believe it was early 80s, the killer is a young man that's missing an arm and he falls for an artist living near a beach, he kills the owner of a mansion, moves in and kidnaps the artist.

How about Humongous

Another good one is STAGE FRIGHT.

Was Nightmare Beach also called Welcome To Spring Break?

Thanks for the recommendations i've added a bunch to my watchlist. Edge of the Axe I didn't like.

Yes finally Killer Party!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼NOBODY talks about this movie! Thank you!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌🏼

Visiting Hours how can you not mention William Shatner too. Wow, Michael Ironside, Robert Vaugh and John Saxon. I love all those actors around that time period

Happy Birthday to Me felt like a retro made for TV film.

Buried alive has ginger Lynn in it to she was xxx star in the 80s too

Some other good slashers are The Lamp aka The Outing. The Dorm That Dripped Blood, X-Ray aka Hospital Massacre

A great list, most likely I've seen them all in the theater and drive-in.... most of the movies mentioned were female killers, any thoughts?