80's Zombie Movies
by henrydorr | created - 27 Mar 2012 | updated - 01 Dec 2014 | PublicZombies are distinct from ghosts, mummies, or vampires, so this list does not include films devoted to these types of undead. (Kung Fu Zombie Vs Tigerkralle is not on imdb)
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1. After Death (1989)
Unrated | 84 min | Action, Horror
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a ... See full summary »
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni, Jim Gaines
Votes: 2,891
2. The Aftermath (1982)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
An astronaut battles mutant cannibals after returning from space to find Earth ravaged by nuclear and biological war.
Director: Steve Barkett | Stars: Steve Barkett, Lynne Margulies, Sid Haig, Christopher Barkett
Votes: 1,014
3. The Alien Dead (1980)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A meteor hits a houseboat, turning its occupants into zombies feeding on alligators. As reptiles dwindle, they target townspeople. A scientist investigates disappearances caused by the undead houseboat dwellers.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey
Votes: 1,273
4. Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985)
82 min | Horror
Survivors of a shipwreck wash up on an island, and run into small vicious creatures.
Director: Michael Stanley | Stars: Robert Nolfi, Julia Rust, Robert Lengyel, Lisa Pak
Votes: 725
5. Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodeling." When they can't pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Vic Tayback, Frank Gorshin, Art Metrano, Rodney Eastman
Votes: 199
6. The Beyond (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John
Votes: 25,338 | Gross: $0.12M
7. Toxic Zombies (1980)
R | 89 min | Horror
Marijuana growers deep in the woods are hit with a new toxic herbicide, and they turn into mindless cannibals killing everyone they come into contact with.
Director: Charles McCrann | Stars: Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon
Votes: 1,156
8. Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Unrated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
Director: Glen Coburn | Stars: Dan Gallion, Thom Meyers, Charles Coburn, Christopher Heldman
Votes: 732
9. C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
Director: David Irving | Stars: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 4,038
10. The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror
A group of Southern deer hunters stop at a church graveyard in the woods. Their activities arouse the corpses of long-dead Confederate soldiers, who attack them.
Director: Tony Malanowski | Stars: Steve Sandkuhler, Christopher Gummer, Rebecca Bach, Judy Dixon
Votes: 811
11. Curse of the Zombie (1989)
78 min | Horror
Archaeologists looking for artifacts in Thailand meet black magic and zombies sent by an evil Shaman..
Director: Hao Li | Stars: Siu-Kwan Lau, Na An, Ah-Jiu, Tak Bei
Votes: 38
12. Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
Director: Frank Agrama | Stars: Brenda Siemer Scheider, Barry Sattels, George Peck, John Salvo
Votes: 1,310
13. Day of the Dead (1985)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy
Votes: 74,413 | Gross: $5.80M
14. Dead & Buried (1981)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield
Votes: 14,931 | Gross: $0.22M
15. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,242 | Gross: $3.59M
16. The Dead Next Door (1989)
Unrated | 78 min | Horror
An elite anti-Zombie team is assembled by the Government to cope with an ever-growing undead infection and the religious cult zealots who fanatically protect the festering foes.
Director: J.R. Bookwalter | Stars: Pete Ferry, Bogdan Pecic, Michael Grossi, Jolie Jackunas
Votes: 3,408
17. The Dead Pit (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, Danny Gochnauer
Votes: 2,922
18. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,529 | Gross: $2.40M
19. Evil Dead II (1987)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva
Votes: 182,031 | Gross: $5.92M
20. Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
Suburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer.
Director: James Aviles Martin | Stars: Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen, Valorie Hubbard
Votes: 1,285
21. Goremet, Zombie Chef from Hell (1986)
67 min | Comedy, Horror
A cannibal opens up a seafood restaurant, and kills and cooks people to serve to his customers.
Director: Don Swan | Stars: Theo Depuay, Kelley Kunicki, C.W. Casey, Alan Marx
Votes: 335
22. Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Unrated | 82 min | Horror
An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WWII comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Manuel Gélin, Eduardo Fajardo, France Lomay, Jeff Montgomery
Votes: 2,606
23. Hard Rock Zombies (1984)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
A freshly-out-of-the-grave band of Hard Rock Zombies is thirsting to take their sweet revenge, as they give the performance of a lifetime.
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: E.J. Curse, Geno Andrews, Sam Mann, Mick McMains
Votes: 1,775
24. Heavy Metal (1981)
R | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.
Directors: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami, Barrie Nelson, Paul Sabella, Jack Stokes, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Harold Whitaker | Stars: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks
Votes: 38,194
story "B-17"
25. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras
Votes: 5,929
26. Hellgate (1989)
R | 91 min | Horror
A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Levey | Stars: Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran
Votes: 1,799
27. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,263
28. Hysterical (1982)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to write the great American novel. Unfortunately for him, the lighthouse he is renting is inhabited by the spirit of a woman... See full summary »
Director: Chris Bearde | Stars: Bill Hudson, Mark Hudson, Brett Hudson, Cindy Pickett
Votes: 917
29. I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.
Director: John Elias Michalakis | Stars: Michael Rubin, Steve McCoy, George Seminara, Craig Sabin
Votes: 951
30. I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I. (1982)
105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A pair of criminal brothers survive an airplane crash and discover a plot by aliens from outer space to conquer Earth by turning human beings in zombies. The FBI gets involved and wants the brothers to infiltrate the alien force.
Director: Marius Penczner | Stars: Larry Raspberry, John Gillick, James Raspberry, Jeff Bailey
Votes: 192
31. Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
Two children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang.
Director: Patrick Regan | Stars: Fabian, Marilyn Burns, Jon Cedar, Marvin Miller
Votes: 333
32. Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty, he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him... See full summary »
Director: Shan Hua | Stars: Billy Chong, Lau Chan, Chung-You Chang, Kang-Yeh Cheng
Votes: 505
Kung Fu Zombie !!!
33. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
93 min | Horror
A group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery's monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño, Albino Graziani
Votes: 811
Mansion of the Living Dead
34. Mausoleum (1983)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A 10 year-old girl, mourning the death of her mother, becomes possessed by a demon who has been preying on her female ancestors for centuries. Years later, the demon starts to take over, both mentally and physically.
Director: Michael Dugan | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Bobbie Bresee, Norman Burton, Maurice Sherbanee
Votes: 3,094
35. Night of the Comet (1984)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 24,165 | Gross: $14.42M
36. Night of the Creeps (1986)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Votes: 26,129 | Gross: $0.59M
37. Night of the Living Babes (1987 Video)
60 min | Comedy, Horror
Two guys trying to find a brothel come across a group of beautiful female zombies.
Director: Gregory Dark | Stars: Michelle Bauer, Andy Nichols, Louie Bonanno, Connie Woods
Votes: 129
38. Night Life (1989)
R | 89 min | Horror
Archie is a "brain" at a small town high school who works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile ... See full summary »
Director: David Acomba | Stars: Scott Grimes, John Astin, Cheryl Pollak, Anthony Geary
Votes: 899
39. Night of the Zombies (1981)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA ... See full summary »
Director: Joel M. Reed | Stars: Jamie Gillis, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Shoshana Ascher
Votes: 745
40. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,734
41. One Dark Night (1982)
PG | 89 min | Horror
As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.
Directors: Tom McLoughlin, Michael Schroeder | Stars: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights
Votes: 3,755
42. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 115,114 | Gross: $57.47M
43. Devil Fetus 2: The Rape After (1984)
88 min | Horror
The figure of an evil genius is stolen by a photographer. At night the genius comes to life and rapes his girlfriend while both of them are drunk.
Director: Moon-Tong Lau | Stars: Cheng-Yu Chang, Tsui Sul, Yau-Hau Chan, Wai Man Chun
Votes: 152
The Rape After
44. Redneck Zombies (1989 Video)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks the liquor they produced turns into zombies.
Director: Pericles Lewnes | Stars: Steve Sooy, Anthony M. Carr, Ken Davis, Stan Morrow
Votes: 3,228
45. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews
Votes: 68,958 | Gross: $14.24M
46. Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Curious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: James Karen, Thom Mathews, Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen
Votes: 21,570 | Gross: $9.21M
47. The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
A chemical company manager and his secretary are both involved in corruption, sabotage and blackmail, which leads to toxic waste turning corpses into killer zombies.
Director: Pierre B. Reinhard | Stars: Cornélia Wilms, Kathryn Charly, Anthea Wyler, Véronique Catanzaro
Votes: 854
48. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield
Votes: 27,654 | Gross: $19.60M
49. Spirit vs. Zombi (1988)
91 min | Adventure, Horror
Director: Chi-Wei Yu | Stars: Hui-Chun Chen, Chu-Chiu Yuan, Feng Ku, Shen Yuen
Votes: 11
Spirit Vs. Zombie
50. The Discarnates (1988)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Atsuko Kawata
Votes: 487
Summer Among the Zombies aka : Ijintachi tono natsu
51. The Supernaturals (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a... See full summary »
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Nichelle Nichols, Talia Balsam, Bradford Bancroft
Votes: 800
52. Surf II (1983)
R | 86 min | Comedy
A disgruntled nerd, who was bullied in high school, creates Buzz Cola, a soft drink that turns surfers into mindless zombies.
Director: Randall M. Badat | Stars: Eddie Deezen, Linda Kerridge, Terry Kiser, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 1,115
53. The Video Dead (1987 Video)
R | 90 min | Horror
A family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.
Director: Robert Scott | Stars: Michael St. Michaels, Thaddeus Golas, Douglass Bell, Al Millan
Votes: 4,735
54. Waxwork (1988)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror
A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Jennifer Bassey, Joe Baker
Votes: 14,043 | Gross: $0.81M
55. Working Stiffs (1989 Video)
61 min | Comedy, Horror
From the Sideshow Cinema archives! An unscrupulous temp agency finds a way create the ideal work force. Raise the dead and send them off on jobs. No pay, no lunches,no insurance needed. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Legge | Stars: Beverly Epstein, Bruce Harding, Tony Ferreira, Michael Legge
Votes: 29
56. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,500
57. Zombie Brigade (1989)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When an amusement park is built on the grounds of an old cemetery, the dead rise to take revenge.
Directors: Carmelo Musca, Barrie Pattison | Stars: John Moore, Khym Lam, Geoffrey Gibbs, Leslie Wright
Votes: 239
58. Death House (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
Director: John Saxon | Stars: Dennis Cole, Anthony Franciosa, Dino Paskas, Dana Lis Mason
Votes: 603
59. Zombie High (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.
Director: Ron Link | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Richard Cox, Kay E. Kuter, James Wilder
Votes: 1,449 | Gross: $0.02M
60. Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An expedition in the East Indies, encounters not only the cannibals they were looking for, but also an evil scientist and his zombie army.
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O'Neal
Votes: 5,898
61. Zombie Island Massacre (1984)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Americans on vacation in the Caribbean take a tour of a nearby island at night and watch a local voodoo ritual. Soon after, they find themselves stranded on the island and under attack by unseen foes. One by one they meet violent ends.
Director: John Carter | Stars: David Broadnax, Rita Jenrette, Tom Cantrell, Diane Clayre Holub
Votes: 1,019
62. Zombie Lake (1981)
R | 90 min | Horror
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.
Directors: Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Stars: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans
Votes: 3,587
63. Zombie Nightmare (1987)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
A mother resorts to voodoo to get back at those who killed her son.
Directors: Jack Bravman, John Fasano | Stars: Adam West, Jon Mikl Thor, Tia Carrere, Manuska Rigaud
Votes: 3,797
64. FleshEater (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
A group of college students on an overnite hayride come across a group of maneating zombies. They must fight for their lives while trying to escape and warn the authorities.
Director: S. William Hinzman | Stars: S. William Hinzman, John Mowod, Leslie Ann Wick, Kevin Kindlin
Votes: 2,011
Zombie Nosh
65. Zombie Rampage (II) (1992 Video)
89 min | Horror
A young man on the way to meet friends at a train station is derailed into a world full of zombies, homicidal gangs and serial killers in this Niagra of gore.
Director: Todd Sheets | Stars: Dave Byerly, Erin Kehr, Stanna Bippus, Beth Belanti
Votes: 266
66. Zombie vs. Ninja (1989)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ethan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Pierre Kirby, Edowan Bersmea, Dewey Bosworth, Thomas Hartham
Votes: 627
67. Robo Vampire (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission.
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Robin Mackay, Nian Watts, Harry Myles, Joe Browne
Votes: 1,503
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