List of horror films of 1983 explained

A list of horror films released in 1983.

Title	Director(s)	Cast	Country	Notes
	American Nightmare		Lawrence Day, Michael Ironside, Lora Staley	Canada
	Amityville 3-D		Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Lori Loughlin	United States
data-sort-value="Blade"	A Blade in the Dark		Andrea Occhipinti, Anna Papa, Fabiola Toledo	Italy
	Boogeyman II	,	Rhonda Aldrich, Shoto von Douglas, Shannah Hall	United States		^[1]
	Christine			United States
	Cujo		Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelley	United States
	Curtains			Canada
style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Deadly"	The Deadly Spawn		Tom de Franco, Charles George Hildebrandt, Richard Lee Porter		United States		^[2]
	Death Warmed Up		Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn	Australia New Zealand		^[3]
data-sort-value="Demon Dans"	Le Démon dans l'île		Anny Duperey, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Santini	France		^[4]
data-sort-value="Demon Murder"	The Demon Murder Case			United States	Television film	^[5]
data-sort-value="Demons Ludlow"	The Demons of Ludlow		Paul von Hausen, Stephanie Cushna	United States		^[6]
data-sort-value="Devonsville"	The Devonsville Terror			United States
	Dracula Tan Exarchia		Konstantinos Tzoumas, Vangelis Kotronis	Greece
	Eyes of Fire		Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley	United States
data-sort-value="Final Terror"	The Final Terror		Rachel Ward, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah	United States
	Frightmare		Barbara Pilavin, Leon Askin, Jennifer Starrett	United States		^[7]
data-sort-value="Grizzly II"				United States
data-sort-value="Hansel and Gretel"	Hansel and Gretel			United States	TV movie^[8]
data-sort-value="House Long"	House of the Long Shadows
data-sort-value="Hunger"	The Hunger			United Kingdom
	Jaws 3-D			United States
	Julie Darling			Canada West Germany		^[9]
data-sort-value="Keep"	The Keep			United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Killing Satan"	The Killing of Satan		Ramon Revilla, Elizabeth Oropesa	Philippines
	Mausoleum			United States
	Mongrel			United States		^[10]
	Mortuary			United States
data-sort-value="Mountaintop"	Mountaintop Motel Massacre		Anna Chappell, Amy Hill	United States
data-sort-value="Night Dismember"	A Night to Dismember			United States
	Nightmares		Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Veronica Cartwright	United States		^[11]
	Of Unknown Origin		Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale	United States Canada
	Ogroff		Howard Vernon	France		^[12]
	Olivia		Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr.	United States		^[13]
	One Dark Night		Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman	United States
	Panic Beats			Spain
data-sort-value="Prey"	The Prey		Debbie Thureson, Steve Bond	United States		^[14]
	Psycho II		Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia, Meg Tilly	United States
	Scalps			United States		^[15]
	Screamtime	, Stanley A. Long	Vincent Russo, Michael Gordon, Marie Scinto	United Kingdom
	Skullduggery		Thom Haverstock, Wendy Crewson	Canada
	Sledgehammer		Ted Prior, Linda McGill	United States
	Sleepaway Camp			United States
	Sole Survivor		Anita Skinner, Kurt Johnson	United States		^[16]
	Something Wicked This Way Comes			United States
	Spasms			Canada		^[17]
	Sweet Sixteen			United States		^[18]
		,,,	Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow	United States		^[19]
	Videodrome			Canada
	Zeder		Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Cesare Barbetti	Italy		^[20]

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External links

• Horror films of 1983 on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Boogeyman II. Allmovie. August 7, 2011. Mannikka, Eleanor.
2. Web site: The Deadly Spawn. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Beldin, Fred.
3. Web site: Death Warmed Up. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
4. Web site: Le Démon dans l'île. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Mannikka, Eleanor.
5. Web site: The Demon Murder Case. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
6. Web site: The Demons of Ludlow. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Brennan, Sandra.
7. Web site: Frightmare. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
8. Web site: Hansel and Gretel. Screen Rant. September 29, 2020.
9. Web site: Julie Darling. DVD Verdict. September 20, 2011. Rode, Josh.
10. Web site: Mongrel. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Bush, John.
11. Web site: Nightmares. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Mannikka, Eleanor.
12. Web site: Big Hair and Bad Blood: VHS-Era Horror Obscurities From A to Z. The New York Times. Pipenburg. Erik. October 26, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180118181023/https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/big-hair-and-bad-blood-vhs-era-horror-obscurities-from-a-to-z/. January 18, 2018.
13. Franzen. Jeff. 1998. 44. Video Watchdog. Ulli Lommel: Stranger in Paradise. 37–39. 1070-9991. Starbrite. Cincinnati, Ohio.
14. News: The Courier-Journal. The Prey trade advertisement. Louisville, Kentucky. November 4, 1983. 35. Newspapers.com.
15. Web site: Scalps. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Beldin, Fred.
16. Web site: Sole Survivor. DVD Verdict. September 20, 2011. Becker, Tom.
17. Web site: Spasms. Canuxploitation. September 28, 2011. Miller, Rhett.
18. Web site: Sweet Sixteen. DVD Verdict. September 20, 2011. Kulik, Christopher.
19. Web site: Twilight Zone---The Movie. Allmovie. June 12, 2020. Hassen, Kristie.
20. Web site: Zeder. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Deming, Mark.