A Nightmare on Elm Street
A group of teenagers are hunted in their dreams by Freddy Krueger, an undead killer bent on revenge.
The directory
Films from the 1980s
Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.
Blue Velvet
A student finds an ear in a field and follows it into a nightclub singer's troubles.
Friday the 13th
Camp counsellors reopening a long-closed summer camp are hunted one by one by a killer nobody can name.
Predator
A rescue mission in a rainforest turns into a fight against an extraterrestrial hunter.
The Evil Dead
Five friends in a remote cabin play an old tape, and wake something that has no intention of leaving them alone.
The Shining
A recovering drinker takes the winter caretaker job at an empty mountain hotel, and the isolation starts to unravel him.
The Thing
An Antarctic research team faces an alien that can imitate living things, leaving everyone unsure whom to trust.