18 Again (1988)
Rating: ★★
Grandfather/Grandson Bodyswap
Director: Paul Flaherty
Actors: George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Jennifer Runyon, Anthony Starke, …
Category: Fantasy
976-Evil (1988)
Rating: ★★
Demonic Telephone Line
Director: Robert Englund
Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sandy Dennis, Patrick O'Bryan, Jim Metzler, …
Category: Horror
The Acid House (1998)
Rating: ★★★½
Irvine Welsh Anthology/Bizarre Transformations
Director: Paul McGuigan
Actors: Ewen Bremner, Jemma Redgrave, Martin Clunes, Stephen McCole, …
Category: Fantasy
Akira (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Psychic Powers Amok
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Science Fiction
Alice (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Surreal Claymation Alice in Wonderland Adaptation
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Actors: Kristyna Kohoutova, Camilla Power
Category: Fantasy
Alien from L.A. (1988)
Rating: ★★
Gonzo Adventures Underground
Director: Albert Pyun
Actors: Kathy Ireland, William R. Moses, Thom Mathews, Deep Roy, …
Category: Science Fiction
Alien Nation (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Human-Alien Buddy Cop Film
Director: Graham Baker
Actors: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevin Major Howard, …
Category: Science Fiction
Amsterdamned (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Serial Killer Prowls the Canals of Amsterdam
Director: Dick Maas
Actors: Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Tatum Dagelet, Serge-Henri Valcke, …
Category: Horror
Apartment Zero (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Sinister Roommate/Weird Psychological Games
Director: Martin Donovan
Actors: Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith, …
Category: Horror
Appleseed (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad
Director: Katsuyoshi Katayama
Category: Science Fiction
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Rating: ★
Alcoholic Millionaire Comedy/Ghost Butler
Director: Bud Yorkin
Actors: Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, John Gielgud, Cynthia Sikes, …
Category: Fantasy
As Time Goes By (1988)
Rating: ★★
Gonzo Time Travel
Director: Barry Peak
Actors: Nique Needles, Bruno Lawrence, Marcelle Schmitz, Mitchell Faircloth, …
Category: Science Fiction
Bad Dreams (1988)
Rating: ★★
Cult Survivor Haunted by Dream Killer
Director: Andrew Fleming
Actors: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Harris Yulin, …
Category: Horror
Bad Taste (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Splatter Comedy/Alien Invasion
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Peter Jackson
Category: Horror
Beetlejuice (1988)
Rating: ★★★½
Gonzo Afterlife Comedy
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, …
Category: Fantasy
Big (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Boy Wakes Up in a Man’s Body
Director: Penny Marshall
Actors: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, Jared Rushton, …
Category: Fantasy
Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Overgrown Adolescent’s Absurdist Adventures
Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: Pee-Wee Herman, Paul Reubens, Valeria Golino, Kris Kristofferson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Blob (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Monster Movie
Director: Chuck Russell
Actors: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Joe Seneca, Donovan Leitch, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Brain (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Giant Evil Brain
Director: Ed Hunt
Actors: Tom Breznahan, Cyndy Preston, David Gale, George Buza
Category: Science Fiction
Cameron’s Closet (1988)
Rating: ★★
Demon in the Closet
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Actors: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Tab Hunter, Gary Hudson, …
Category: Horror
The Carpenter (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Ghostly Handyman
Director: David Wellington
Actors: Wings Hauser, Ron Lea, Jon Cuthbert
Category: Horror
Catacombs (1988)
Rating: ★★
Evil Stirs Beneath a Monastery
Director: David Schmoeller
Category: Horror
Child’s Play (1988)
Rating: ★★
Possessed Doll
Director: Tom Holland
Actors: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, …
Category: Horror
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
Director: Marilyn Fox
Actors: Barbara Kellerman, Richard Dempsey, Sophie Wilcox, Jonathan R. Scott, …
Category: Fantasy
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Rating: 0
Alien Visitors/Rejuvenated Geriatrics
Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Wilford Brimley, …
Category: Science Fiction
Cop (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Disturbed Cop Hunts Serial Killer
Director: James B. Harris
Actors: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Raymond Barry, …
Category: Horror
Critters 2 (1988)
Rating: ★
Malicious Alien Creatures
Director: Mick Garris
Actors: Scott Grimes, Don Opper, Terrence Mann, Barry Corbin, …
Category: Science Fiction
Da (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Autobiography of an Irish Childhood/Cranky Father’s Ghost
Director: Matt Clark
Actors: Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, William Hickey
Category: Fantasy
Dead Heat (1988)
Rating: ★
Cop and his Zombie Partner
Director: Mark Goldblatt
Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, …
Category: Horror
The Dead Pool (1988)
Rating: ★
Dirty Harry vs a Psycho
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson, Evan C. Kim
Category: Horror
Dead Ringers (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Disturbed Twin Psychology
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Category: Horror
Deadly Dreams (1988)
Rating: ★
Dream Horrors
Director: Kristine Peterson
Category: Horror
The Deceivers (1988)
Rating: ★★
Indian Thuggee Cults
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, David Robb
Category: Horror
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Suburb of Tokyo Taken Over by Demonic Forces
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Category: Fantasy
Doin’ Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Rating: ★★
Possibly Alien Teenager
Director: Charles Matthau
Actors: Adam West, Candice Azzara, Martha Scott, Matt Adler, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dr Hackenstein (1988)
Rating: 0
Mad Scientist
Director: Richard Clark
Actors: David Muir, Stacey Travis, Anne Ramsey, Phyllis Diller, …
Category: Horror
Dracula’s Widow (1988)
Rating: ★
Dracula’s Wife in the Present-Day
Director: Christopher Coppola
Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Lenny Von Dohlen, Josef Sommer, Rachel Jones, …
Category: Horror
Dream Demon (1988)
Rating: ★★
Nightmare and Reality
Director: Harley Cokliss
Actors: Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, …
Category: Horror
The Dreaming (1988)
Rating: ★
Cursed Aborigine Artefacts
Director: Mario Andreacchio
Actors: Penny Cook, Arthur Dignam, Gary Sweet, Patrick Frost, …
Category: Horror
Earth Star Voyager (1988)
Rating: ★★
Space Expedition
Director: James Goldstone
Actors: Brian McNamara, Duncan Regehr, Julia Montgomery, Tom Breznahan, …
Category: Science Fiction
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Bimbo Horror Hostess
Director: James Signorelli
Actors: Elvira, Cassandra Peterson, W. Morgan Sheppard, Edie McClurg
Category: Horror
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Idiot Aids Santa Claus
Director: John Cherry
Actors: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Robert Lesser
Category: Fantasy
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Rating: ★
Slasher Film/Psychic Powers
Director: John Carl Buechler
Actors: Lar Park Lincoln, Kane Hodder, Terry Kiser, Kevin Blair, …
Category: Horror
Gandahar (1988)
Rating: ★★
Animation/Planetary Adventure
Director: Rene Laloux
Actors: Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer, Glenn Close, Penn Jillette, …
Category: Science Fiction
Ghosthouse (1988)
Rating: ★★
Haunted House/Italian Horror
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Actors: Greg Scott, Lara Wendel, Mary Sellers, Donald O'Brien
Category: Horror
Ghosts … of the Civil Dead (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Brutally Tough Future Prison
Director: John Hillcoat
Actors: David Field, Nick Cave, Vince Gil
Category: Science Fiction
The Girl in a Swing (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Haunting
Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas Le Prevost, Lynsey Baxter
Category: Horror
Grandmother’s House (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Psycho-Thriller
Director: Peter Rader
Actors: Eric Foster, Brinke Stevens, Len Lesser
Category: Horror
Hack-o-Lantern (1988)
Rating: 0
Halloween Killings
Director: Jag Mundhra
Actors: Hy Pyke, Gregory Scott Cummins
Category: Horror
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Rating: ★½
Slasher Film
Director: Dwight H. Little
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George Wilbur, …
Category: Horror
Hanussen (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Charismatic Clairvoyant/Hypnotist
Director: Istvan Szabo
Category: Fantasy
Haunted Summer (1988)
Rating: ★
Mary Shelley-Lord Byron Meeting
Director: Ivan Passer
Actors: Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, Laura Dern, Alex Winter
Category: Horror
Heart of Midnight (1988)
Rating: ★
Disturbed Psychology Psycho-Thriller
Director: Matthew Chapman
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Frank Stallone, James Rebhorn, …
Category: Horror
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Sadomasochistic Demons
Director: Tony Randel
Actors: Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, …
Category: Horror
Hero and the Terror (1988)
Rating: ★½
Cop vs Psycho
Director: William Tannen
Actors: Chuck Norris, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran, Ron O'Neal
Category: Horror
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: Skip Schoolnik
Category: Horror
High Spirits (1988)
Rating: ★★
Haunted Castle Comedy
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Beverly D'Angelo, …
Category: Fantasy
Hobgoblins (1988)
Rating: 0
Malicious Alien Critters
Director: Rick Sloane
Actors: Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan, Steven Boggs, Kelley Palmer, …
Category: Science Fiction
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Ancient Egyptian Chainsaw Worshipping Cult
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Actors: Linnea Quigley, Gunnar Hansen, Jay Richardson, Michelle Bauer, …
Category: Horror
Hot to Trot (1988)
Rating: 0
Talking Horse Comedy
Director: Michael Dinner
Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, John Candy, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Madsen, …
Category: Fantasy
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)
Rating: 0
Werewolves
Director: John Hough
Actors: Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss
Category: Horror
I Saw What You Did (1988)
Rating: ★★
Prank Phonecall Psycho-Thriller
Director: Fred Walton
Actors: Shawnee Smith, Tammy Lauren, Robert Carradine, David Carradine, …
Category: Horror
Incident at Raven’s Gate (1988)
Rating: ★★
Mysterious Unexplained Events
Director: Rolf de Heer
Actors: Steven Vidler, Vince Gil, Ritchie Singer, Max Cullen, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)
Rating: ★★
Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up
Director: Nicholas Corea
Actors: Bill Bixby, Eric Kramer, Lou Ferrigno, Steve Levitt, …
Category: Science Fiction
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here (1988)
Rating: 0
Aliens Invade Movie Theatre/1950s SF Film Clip Compilation
Director: George Maitland
Actors: Christian Lee, Mel Welles, Janice Fabian, Larry Bagby III, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Invisible Kid (1988)
Rating: 0
Invisible Teen Comedy
Director: Avery Crounse
Actors: Jay Underwood, Karen Black, Nicholas de Toth, Mike Genovese
Category: Science Fiction
Jack the Ripper (1988)
Rating: ★★
Jack the Ripper Killings/TV Mini-Series
Director: David Wickes
Actors: Michael Caine, Lewis Collins, Armand Assante, Michael Gothard, …
Category: Horror
Jack’s Back (1988)
Rating: ★★
Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Copycat
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Actors: James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Robert Picardo, Chris Mulkey, …
Category: Horror
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988)
Rating: 0
Underground Adventures
Director: Rusty Lemorande, Albert Pyun
Actors: Nicola Cowper, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Jeremy Crutchley
Category: Science Fiction
Kadaicha (1988)
Rating: ★
Aborigine Curse
Director: James Bogle
Actors: Zoe Carides, Natalie McCurry, Bruce Hughes
Category: Horror
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Rating: ★★
Clown Alien Invaders
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Actors: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Kiss (1988)
Rating: 0
Sinister Aunt
Director: Pen Densham
Actors: Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Peter Dvorsky
Category: Horror
Lady in White (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Ghost Story
Director: Frank LaLoggia
Actors: Lukas Haas, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Alex Rocco, …
Category: Horror
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Rating: ★★
Snake Priestess/Campy Horror
Director: Ken Russell
Actors: Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, …
Category: Horror
The Land Before Time (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Animation/Talking Dinosaurs
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Will Rynn, Judith Barsi, …
Category: Fantasy
Longing For Eternity (1988)
Rating: ★
Artificial Womb/Immortality Drug
Director: Robert Favreau
Actors: Danielle Proulx, Marc Messier, Patricia Nolin, Paul Savoie, …
Category: Science Fiction
Mac and Me (1988)
Rating: 0
Cute Alien
Director: Stewart Raffill
Category: Science Fiction
Maniac Cop (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Disfigured Psycho Cop
Director: William Lustig
Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, William Smith, …
Category: Horror
Me and Him (1988)
Rating: 0
Man and His Talking Penis Comedy
Director: Doris Dörrie
Actors: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson, …
Category: Fantasy
Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Atrocities in a Japanese Concentration Camp
Director: T.F. Mous, Tun Fei Mou
Category: Horror
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Rating: ★★★½
Magical Realism
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: John Heard, Christopher Walken, Melanie Griffith, Chuck Vennera, …
Category: Fantasy
Miracle Mile (1988)
Rating: ★★★½
Impending Nuclear Strike on L.A. Comedy
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Mykelti Williamson, Robert DoQui, …
Category: Science Fiction
Monkey Shines (1988)
Rating: ★★
Psychic Link with a Monkey
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Stanley Tucci, Joyce Van Patten, …
Category: Horror
Moonwalker (1988)
Rating: ★
Michael Jackson Anthology/Michael Jackson Superhero
Director: Jim Blachfield, Jerry Kramer, Will Vinton, Colin Chilvers
Actors: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Brandon Adams, Kellie Parker
Category: Fantasy
Mortuary Academy (1988)
Rating: ★★
Bad Taste Mortuary Comedy
Director: Michael Schroeder
Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Perry Lang, Christopher Atkins, …
Category: Horror
Mr Vampire 4 (1988)
Rating: ★★
Hong Kong Hopping Vampire Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Actors: Anthony Chan, Wu Ma, Yuen Wah, Ho Kin Wai
Category: Fantasy
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Alien Visitor Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Actors: Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Jon Lovitz, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Mediaevals Time-Travel to the Present-Day
Director: Vincent Ward
Actors: Hamish MacFarlane, Bruce Lyons, Marshall Napier, Noel Appleby, …
Category: Fantasy
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Rating: 0
Anarchic Girl
Director: Ken Annakin
Actors: Tami Erin, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull, George Dicenzo, …
Category: Fantasy
A Nightmare on Elm Street IV: The Dream Master (1988)
Rating: ★
Dream-Invading Boogey Man
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Ken Sagoes, …
Category: Horror
Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
Rating: ★★
Vampire Film
Director: Augusto Caminito
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi, …
Category: Horror
Not Of This Earth (1988)
Rating: ★
Alien Vampire
Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Roger Lodge, …
Category: Science Fiction
Oliver & Company (1988)
Rating: ★★½
Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Director: George Scribner
Actors: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Natalie Gregory, Cheech Marin, …
Category: Fantasy
On the Silver Globe (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Colonisation of a Alien Planet
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Actors: Michal Bajor, Maria Pakulnis, Krzysztof Kolberger
Category: Science Fiction
The One Game (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Reality Games
Director: Mike Vardy
Actors: Stephen Dillane, Patrick Malahide, Pippa Haywood, Kate McKenzie, …
Category: Fantasy
Peacock King (1988)
Rating: ★★
Wu Xia Film
Director: Ngai Kai Lam
Actors: Yuen Biao, Narumi Yasuda, Gloria Yip, Siu-fung Wong, …
Category: Fantasy
Phantasm II (1988)
Rating: ★★★½
Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: James Le Gros, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Paula Irvine, …
Category: Horror
Pin (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Man’s Disturbed Relationship with a Sinister Anatomical Dummy
Director: Sandor Stern
Actors: David Hewlett, Cyndy Preston, Terry O'Quinn, John Pyper-Ferguson, …
Category: Horror
Poltergeist III (1988)
Rating: ★★
Haunting
Director: Gary Sherman
Actors: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nancy Allen, …
Category: Horror