The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1985)Ichabod Crane becomes the headmaster at a schoolhouse. He falls for Katrina Van Tassel but she has a lover: Brom Bones. Brom scares him off acting as the Headless Horseman only to meet the real one himself.
ไกรทอง 2 (1985)Thai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.
Alienado (1985)Mark tiene 15 años y no es como los demás chicos de su edad. Su carácter retorcido y endiablado ha conseguido alterar la vida de su familia y sus compañeros de escuela. ¿Es Mark sólo un chico "malo" o tiene verdaderos problemas mentales? La respuesta queda clara cuando una loca carrera por la venganza y el poder se convierte en una trampa mortal.
Lune de miel (1985)A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
Otra vuelta de tuerca (1985)Tras abandonar el seminario jesuita de Loyola, Roberto, por medio del párroco de su pueblo, encuentra trabajo como preceptor de dos niños huérfanos, sobrinos del conde de Echebarria.
Victims! (1985)Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.
夜半歌聲 (1985)A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him.
Faust (1985)In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.
毒咒 (1985)A young woman named Tu married to a repulsively disgusting, wheel chair confined, old man. There is also a repugnant cousin who takes advantage of the situation and rapes her. But she is really in love with the gardener. When lust-driven cousin murders the gardener, Tu kills herself to join her boyfriend in the afterlife.
Vértigo mortal (TV) (1985)Un viejo policía acosa a Allen Devlin, pues está convencido de que es un asesino en serie. El problema es que Allen sufre amnesia y no puede recordar nada que le permita probar su inocencia.
生死線 (1985)John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters, lead by Peter Chan Lung. This is a family that stays together, slays together and when the youngest one is refused in marriage to one of the young girls of the troupe they turn into savage maniacs.
The Bad Seed (1985)Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.
La presa (1985)A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
Sin portadaเดชผีดิบ (1984)Someone sends Dr. Montree a birthday gift all the way from Europe. Unfortunately, that gift is a coffin with an embalmed body inside that happens to be a mummy that also happens to turn into a vampire during the next full moon. If you're wondering why then the Thai title translates to 'The Zombie' when this features a mummy vampire, you may want to ask Google Translate. Otherwise, this is a horror comedy with bad gay jokes and a soundtrack of stolen Culture Club music.
Child's Play (1984)A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but everything fails. Then the wife notices a bizarre pattern.
ผีเอ๊าะเอ๊าะ (1984)More or less a Thai version of The Exorcist. A couple and their young daughter move into an old, remote house. Bones are found in the attic where strange noises are heard and the creepy voyeuristic caretaker (who spies on the family through hidden passageways) calls for an evil spirit that thrives on virgin's blood. The daughter is finally possessed, speaks with a male voice, develops extreme strength and goes on a rampage.
Mark of the Devil (1984)A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on his chest and begins to spread and turn into a condemning tattoo
穿梭陰陽界 (1984)Wong Yan Tung, a doctor with a fear of fire and recurring nightmares of being cremated alive, is dedicated to fighting his colleagues' ignorance about the nature of clinical death. Prostitute Kam Kuk, Wong's childhood friend, attempts suicide several times and they inevitably reconnect during her short hospital stays, while Wong's girlfriend suffers from mysterious and sudden bouts of numbness in her arm.
Sin portadaJunior (1984)Ceil and Enis are a happy if wacky female couple until giant baby son Junior (who sports a mustache but fits in his crib just dandy) develops a fondness for hot dogs and other symbols of manliness (along with many things edible, phallic or not) and decides to bust out of his confining crib to raid the fridge and avenge his overly protective mothers.
Trilogy Of Terror (1984)RuPaul teamed up with filmmaker Jon Witherspoon for this short spoof of Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror, which was one of the finest made-for-tv movies ever. From the Funtone USA Video Archives
The Fall of the House of Usher (1984)Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
The Power (1984)A man comes into possession of an ancient Aztec doll. However, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, which takes over his body.
El rito (1984)A young girl invokes the spirits. "The Rite" introduces us to the mysterious and unknown world of the afterlife.
Frankenstein (1984)A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Sin portadaAnita (1984)Juwita se niega a comprometerse con un joven elegido por sus padres, por lo que es golpeada y se deja amordazada en el bosque. En su momento de sufrimiento, Juwita experimenta una peculiaridad: puede transformarse en una serpiente y tiene una hija con capacidades similares.
Sleepwalker (1984)Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
Die schwarze Spinne (1983)Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
Sin portadaRetribution (1983)This short film supported Friday the 13th Part 3 on its initial UK release – one scene features a brutal knife-killing, played out in silhouette against a whitewashed wall.
Suffer, Little Children (1983)A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
Húsið (1983)A young couple moves into an old house. She teaches deaf children, he is a musician, working on his own compositions. Their separate worlds, one silent, the other full of sounds, create a vivid pattern of contrasts, which affect their emotional lives and their living together. From the time they move into the house, they are strangely aware of something odd, especially she, while he concentrates more and more upon his work. A series of incidents adds to her growing uneasiness about the house. Its past seems to creep in on her. She feels as if some tragedy must have befallen the people that lived there before, but when she starts asking around she gets few answers. There is something about the house that seems to be on the verge of overpowering her - something that in an unexpected way is related to her origins and permanently affects her life and destiny.
Trick or Treat (1983)Town miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.
The Returning (1983)Two different men are possessed by spirits of Native Americans after they separately wander into a sacred burial ground. When John and Sybil come home with their son after a trip to the Mojave Desert, they bring an unusual stone back as a memento of the trip. The stone seems to cause strange noises and other horrible inexplicable phenomena.
The Lost Tribe (1983)Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
The Witching (1983)This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Franklin. This version features brand new scenes (mostly to up to exploitation factor) filmed in 1983 and added by Gordon himself. It also features a brand new score and other changes and the whole thing differs greatly from the original 82-minute theatrical version.
A Próxima Vítima (1983)A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.
Au-delà de minuit (1983)A fancy dress ball takes place in a strange palace. The host is unknown. The theme: "your idea of human representation”. During the course of this mysterious and rather frightening evening, each guest is transformed into his own character and the intrigue thickens.
Cazador de Demonios (1983)At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by a nahual (Wolfman)
El fantasma de la ópera (1983)La diva de la Ópera de Budapest se suicida después de que el propietario arruinara su carrera por haber rechazado sus insinuaciones pero su director-esposo, al que se creía muerto en un incendio, planea vengarse de todos los que considera responsables de su suicidio.
Opsesija (1983)A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.
夢女恨 (1983)One night in Taipei, a female factory worker is killed on her way home. Koh Kang-young, the lead detective, concludes that she was killed by a poisonous snake from the bite marks left on the victim's neck. Reporter Lee Ok-jung rebuts his theory in her article. Through this incident, Detective Koh and Ok-jung meet frequently and they become friends. Afterwards, two more women are killed in the same manner. It is revealed that Ok-jung can't account for her whereabouts for each murder. When another murder is committed, Detective Koh finds out the truth about Ok-jung. When Ok-jung was three, a unique snake bit her. Therefore, she kills people by biting them like a poisonous snake.
