In this post, we’re taking a look at the horror films of 1989.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

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4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

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3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

• The Fly II – The story follows the son of Veronica Quaife and Seth Brundle, a scientist who became a human-fly hybrid as a result of an experiment gone awry, and searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father’s experiments. Directed by Chris Walas.
• Pet Sematary – After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead. Directed by Mary Lambert.
• Fright Night Part 2 – Following the plot of the first film, it focuses on Charley Brewster who, now a college student, encounters a group of vampires led by a beautiful woman who is seeking him out. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace.

2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

• Leviathan – The crew of an underwater geological facility stalked and killed by a hideous mutant creature. Directed by George P. Cosmatos.
• 976-EVIL – A seemingly harmless telephone service endows a young man named Hoax with supernatural powers turning him into a satanic killer. Directed by Robert Englund.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan – Set one year after the events of The New Blood, the film follows Jason as he stalks a group of high school graduates on a ship en route to New York City. Directed by Rob Hedden.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child – The film follows Krueger, using a now pregnant Alice Johnson’s baby’s dreams to claim new victims. Directed by Stephen Hopkins.
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers – It follows serial killer Michael Myers who again returns to the town of Haddonfield to murder his traumatized niece, Jamie Lloyd, with whom he now shares a telepathic connection. Directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard.
• Shocker – After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police. Directed by Wes Craven.

1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

• Puppet Master – The film stars Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Matt Roe and Kathryn O’Reilly as psychics who are plotted against by a former colleague, using puppets animated by an Egyptian spell. Directed by David Schmoeller.

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