Research: history of horror 1981 - 2000

This period of time was also quite good for horror films because this is when some more classics were made and ideas had adapted even further giving different approaches to horror movies that people didn't expect. Also i believe that in this time they improved on the ideas given by the previous years making them very good.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984

is about a pedophile who was hunted down by the local community then burnt alive. He then came back to kill the children of the people who killed him in their dreams and as they died in their dreams they would also die in real life. for me this was a scary film as it was different to most horror films as it was done in their dreams.

HellRaiser 1987

This was a very scary movie as it was very gory and the killer as not human and already has pins in his head thus the name pinhead.  the plot is An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover, who's being chased by demons after he escaped from their  Hell.

Aliens 1986
A team of people go to a planet in which they encounter aliens all ready their and they have lost contact with time and others so they are stuck up there. From this came all of the alien films also they made alien vs predator which was very entertaining for me.

Child's play 1988
is a film about a boy who is given a present by his mother bu then they find out that the doll is possessed by a serial killer. this was not a great horror for me but it was good for others as they may have found it scary as it was a different idea of the doll being the killer




The woman in Black 1989
A widow dies in a house in which an estate agent tries to sell the house but as he does a series of unusual events occur. This film has recently been remade and has been told to be very scary.







The silence of the lamb 1991
This films is about a cannibal who would kills his victim then eat them. this is most probably the most popular films based around cannibalism as it is so known.







Candy man 1992
The plot of The Candy man, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.i have not seen this film but i have heard about it and heard how scared some people got by it. 



Scream 1996

For me this has to be my favorite horror film. the reason why this is, is because it was one of the first horror films i ever watched therefor i was scared by this one for years also once i faced my fears and watched it the plot of the films was very good as it is not just a typically psychopath and there were stories behind it. the film was successful and went on to having four other films which i enjoyed also. 

The blair which project
Three film students go missing after traveling into the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about the local Blair Witch legend leaving only their footage behind. this films was filmed completely as a POV (point of view) showing first person as if you where there which made it more intense.