CRITTERS (1986)
A group of small alien creatures escape a prison transport ship and are pursed by two shape-shifting bounty hunters to Earth.
DEMONS (1985) • DEMONS 2 (1986)
Demons are unleashed in a cinema and, later, a high-rise building.
CLOCKWISE (1986)
An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
French writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is...
JAKE SPEED (1986)
In a world where all famous pulp fiction heroes are real, one of them, Jake Speed, agrees to help desperate a woman save her sister from a sadistic white slaver called Sid, who's operating in Africa.
RAWHEAD REX (1986)
A monstrous pagan god is released from its underground prison by an unwitting farmer, then goes on a rampage across the Irish countryside...
HOUSE (1986) • HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY (1987) • HOUSE III: THE HORROR SHOW (1989) • HOUSE IV: THE REPOSSESSION (1992)
HOUSE (1986) Steve Miner’s an unsung hero of cult ’80s movies, having earned his stripes working on Wes Craven’s The Last House on the...
FROM BEYOND (1986)
Two scientists create a machine which allows people to see beyond normal perception into another dimension, but find themselves attacked by horrifying life forms...
30 Years On: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA was released across the US on this day, 30 years ago. To celebrate, we've investigated the origins of this flop summer movie from 1987 that became a cult favourite...
POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE (1986)
The original Poltergeist casts a shadow its sequels and remake are doomed to sit under; in terms of objective quality, place in urban legend...