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Theme: Films of 1989

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Out of the Body (1989)

19 September 202419 September 2024

Rating: ½

Astral Killer

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Actors: Mark Hembrow, Tessa Humphries, John Clayton, John Ley, …
Category: Horror

Paperhouse (1989)

22 August 20095 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Girl Builds a House in Dreams

Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Charlotte Burke, Glenne Headly, Gemma Jones, Ben Cross
Category: Horror

Parents (1989)

9 January 201131 January 2025

Rating: ★★

Paranoia Comedy/Boy Thinks His Parents Are Cannibals

Director: Bob Balaban
Actors: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Deborah Rush
Category: Horror

Party Line (1989)

6 January 20031 September 2022

Rating: ★

Phone Chatline Psycho-Thriller

Director: William Webb
Actors: Richard Hatch, Leif Garrett, Shawn Weatherly, Richard Roundtree
Category: Horror

Patlabor: The Mobile Police (1989)

26 September 200427 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Anime/Police Amok-Robot Squad

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction

Pet Sematary (1989)

15 December 200518 October 2023

Rating: ★★½

Resurrection of the Dead/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Mary Lambert
Actors: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist, …
Category: Horror

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989)

11 December 201419 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Modernised The Phantom of the Opera

Director: Richard Friedman, Tom Fries
Actors: Derek Rydall, Morgan Fairchild, Kari Whitman, Rob Estes, …
Category: Horror

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

6 January 20035 July 2024

Rating: ★★★

Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House/Time Travel

Director: Dwight H. Little
Actors: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Molly Shannon, …
Category: Horror

Prancer (1989)

25 December 201312 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Girl Discovers Santa’s Reindeer

Director: John Hancock
Actors: Rebecca Harrell, Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Ariana Richards, …
Category: Fantasy

PsychoCop (1989)

21 February 201921 February 2019

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film/Psycho Police Officer

Director: Wallace Potts
Actors: Bobby Ray Shafer, Palmer Lee Todd, Jeff Qualle, Dan Campbell, …
Category: Horror

Puppetmaster (1989)

15 May 200119 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Malevolent Dolls

Director: David Schmoeller
Actors: Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Robin Frates, Jimmie F. Skaggs, …
Category: Horror

Redneck Zombies (1989)

2 May 201915 September 2020

Rating: 0­

Zombie Comedy

Director: Pericles Lewnes
Category: Horror

The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

6 July 20005 December 2024

Rating: ½

Comic-Book Mutant Superhero

Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Dick Durock, Sarah Douglas, …
Category: Science Fiction

Rules of Engagement (1989)

13 February 202024 November 2022

Rating: ★★½

Impending Nuclear War

Director: Robert Walker
Actors: Kenneth Cranham, Karl Johnson, Cathy Tyson, Amanda Fawsett, …
Category: Science Fiction

Rush Week (1989)

9 November 200010 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Bob Bralver
Actors: Pamela Ludwig, Roy Thinnes, Dean Hamilton, Todd Eric Andrews, …
Category: Horror

The Salute of the Jugger (1989)

19 April 200116 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Post-Holocaust Sports Team

Director: David Peoples
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Max Fairchild, …
Category: Science Fiction

Santa Sangre (1989)

31 July 201028 June 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Surrealism/Psychologically Disturbed Mime Artist

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Axel Jodorowsky, Guy Stockwell, Adan Jodorowsky
Category: Fantasy

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

17 October 199910 May 2024

Rating: ★★

Sexual Rondeau Comedy/Ghost

Director: Paul Bartel
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ray Sharkey, …
Category: Fantasy

Sea of Love (1989)

11 May 20017 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Psycho-Thriller/Romance

Director: Harold Becker
Actors: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Richard Jenkins, …
Category: Horror

Second Sight (1989)

8 July 20007 March 2025

Rating: 0­

Psychic Detective Agency

Director: Joel Zwick
Actors: John Larroquette, Bronson Pinchot, Stuart Pankin, Bess Armstrong, …
Category: Fantasy

Shocker (1989)

31 January 201022 April 2021

Rating: ★

Executed Killer’s Supernatural Revenge

Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy, Cami Cooper, …
Category: Horror

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: You Better Watch Out! (1989)

24 December 201921 December 2023

Rating: ★★

Christmas Slasher Film/Resurrected Killer

Director: Monte Hellman
Actors: Bill Moseley, Richard Beymer, Eric Da Re, Laura Elena Harring, …
Category: Horror

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

1 January 200110 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Arabian Nights Adventure

Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actors: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, …
Category: Fantasy

Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

8 July 20208 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Slasher Film

Director: Michael A. Simpson
Actors: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver
Category: Horror

Slipstream (1989)

20 January 200118 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Post-Holocaust Adventure

Director: Steven Lisberger
Actors: Bill Paxton, Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, …
Category: Science Fiction

Society (1989)

4 April 200025 December 2023

Rating: ★★★

Secret Society of Shape Changers

Director: Brian Yuzna
Actors: Billy Warlock, Devin Devasquez, Ben Slack, Evan Richards, …
Category: Horror

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

31 August 20028 February 2025

Rating: ★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: William Shatner
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Lawrence Luckinbill, …
Category: Science Fiction

Stepfather II (1989)

8 June 200021 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Psycho Stepfather

Director: Jeff Burr
Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Caroline Williams, Jonathan Brandis, …
Category: Horror

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)

17 August 20223 July 2025

Rating: ★★

Modern Vampires

Director: Anthony Hickox
Actors: David Carradine, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler, Maxwell Caulfield, …
Category: Horror

Sweet Home (1989)

27 December 201827 January 2020

Rating: ★★½

Gonzo Japanese Haunted House Film

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Category: Horror

Teen Witch (1989)

8 September 202123 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Teenage Witch Comedy

Director: Dorian Walker
Actors: Robyn Lively, Zelda Rubinstein, Dick Sargent, Shelley Berman, …
Category: Fantasy

Ten Little Indians (1989)

25 June 202425 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Agatha Christie Murder Mystery

Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Actors: Donald Pleasance, Herbert Lom, Frank Stallone, Brenda Vaccaro, …
Category: Horror

The Terror Within (1989)

20 October 202028 August 2024

Rating: ★★

Mutant Monster

Director: Thierry Notz
Actors: Andrew Stevens, George Kennedy, Terri Treas, Starr Andreeff, …
Category: Science Fiction

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

5 November 200026 January 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Man-Machine Fusion

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
Category: Science Fiction

To Die For (1989)

14 June 200230 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Vampire Romance

Director: Deran Sarafian
Actors: Sydney Walsh, Brendan Hughes, Amanda Wyss, Scott Jacoby, …
Category: Horror

Transylvania Twist (1989)

23 April 202012 September 2024

Rating: ★★

Horror Parody

Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Teri Copley, Steve Altman, Robert Vaughn, Ace Mask, …
Category: Horror

U.H.F. (1989)

6 July 19992 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Cable Station Hijinks/Various Parodies

Director: Jay Levey
Actors: Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy, David Bowe, …
Category: Science Fiction

Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb (1989)

31 October 200510 May 2021

Rating: ★★½

Anime/Perverse Demon Wars

Director: Hideki Takayama
Category: Horror

Violent Shit (1989)

16 March 202220 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Splatter and Gore/Psycho Film

Director: Andreas Schnaas
Actors: Andreas Schnaas
Category: Horror

Warlock (1989)

8 October 20056 June 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Witchfinder Pursues Warlock Through Time

Director: Steve Miner
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Lori Singer
Category: Horror

When the Whales Came (1989)

10 August 20158 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Period Drama/Preventing a Whale Curse

Director: Clive Rees
Actors: Paul Scofield, Helen Mirren, David Threlfall, John Hallam, …
Category: Fantasy

Wicked Stepmother (1989)

31 August 20013 January 2023

Rating: 0­

Witch Moves In Comedy

Director: Larry Cohen
Actors: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander, …
Category: Fantasy

Wired (1989)

11 April 20052 August 2019

Rating: ★

Surreal John Belushi Biopic

Director: Larry Peerce
Actors: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Gary Groomes, …
Category: Fantasy

The Wolves of Willougby Chase (1989)

31 July 20104 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Victorian Children’s Fantasy

Director: Stuart Orme
Actors: Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Richard O'Brien, Geraldine James, …
Category: Fantasy

The Woman in Black (1989)

2 January 202029 May 2023

Rating: ★★

Ghost Story

Director: Herbert Wise
Actors: Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Ryall, Clare Holman, …
Category: Horror

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