Best Slasher Movies & TV Series of the 1980s

Looking for the best slasher movies and TV series of the 1980s? These 96 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Student Bodies 1981 ★ 5.2

Blood Tracks 1985 ★ 4.0

Anthropophagous 1980 ★ 5.4

Graduation Day 1981 ★ 5.2

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland 1989 ★ 5.4

The Final Terror 1983 ★ 5.1

Don't Answer the Phone! 1980 ★ 4.6

Cheerleader Camp 1988 ★ 5.0

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood 1988 ★ 5.5

Memorial Valley Massacre 1988 ★ 4.2

Cutting Class 1989 ★ 5.1

The Mutilator 1985 ★ 5.1

Death Ship 1980 ★ 5.1

Boardinghouse 1982 ★ 3.7

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child 1989 ★ 5.4

New Year's Evil 1980 ★ 4.9

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 1989 ★ 5.3

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning 1985 ★ 5.3

Splatter University 1984 ★ 4.1

Scalps 1983 ★ 3.9

The Forest 1982 ★ 3.9

Scream 1981 ★ 4.0

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan 1989 ★ 4.9

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 1987 ★ 4.4