Top Ten for 1985

Overview coming soon.
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1985

Top 5

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1. The Return of the Living Dead

USA / Dan O'Bannon / ★★★1/2

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2. Phenomena (Creepers)

Italy / Dario Argento / ★★★1/2

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3. Re-Animator

USA / Stuart Gordon / ★★★1/2

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4. Geung si sin sang (Mr. Vampire)

Hong Kong / Ricky Lau / ★★★1/2

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5. Day of the Dead

USA / George A. Romero / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Death Lullaby, The (Nido to Mezamenu Komori Uta) / Japan / Hiroshi Harada / ★★★1/2 

7. Fright Night / USA / Tom Holland / ★★★
8. Silip (Daughters of Eve) / Philippines / Elwood Perez / ★★★

9. Cemetery of Terror (Cementerio del terror) / Mexico / Rubén Galindo Jr. / ★★★
10. Midnight Hour, The (In the Midnight Hour) / USA [TV] / Jack Bender / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Afterman, The / Belgium / Rob Van Eyck / ★★1/2

- Alien Predator (Alien Predators; Cosmos Mortal) / Spain, USA / Deran Sarafian / ★1/2

- Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story (Schiave bianche - Violenza in Amazzonia) / Italy / Mario Gariazzo / ★★1/2

- Attack of the Beast Creatures (Hell Island) / USA / Michael Stanley / ★★1/2

- Bad Seed, The / USA [TV] / Paul Wendkos / ★★1/2

- Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (Oniroku Dan: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme) / Japan / Masahito Segawa / ★★1/2
- Bloodstream / UK / Michael J, Murphy / ★★

- Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues / USA / Charles B. Pierce / ★1/2

- Bride, The / UK, USA / Franc Roddam / ★★1/2

- Brutal Storm (Vahset Kasirgasi) / Turkey / Kadir Akgün / SBIG

- Cat's Eye / USA / Lewis Teague / ★★1/2

- Creature (Titan Find) / USA / William Malone / ★★

- Cut and Run (Inferno in diretta) / Italy / Ruggero Deodato / ★★

- Daemon / UK / Colin Finbow / ★1/2
- Dario Argento's World of Horror (Il mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento) / Italy [doc] / Michele Soavi / ★★★

- Dark Power, The / USA / Phil Smoot / ★★1/2

- Death Lullaby, The (Nido to Mezamenu Komori Uta) (1985; Hiroshi Harada) [anime] Japan

- Def-con 4 (Defense Condition 4) / Canada / Paul Donovan / ★★

- Demons (Dèmoni) / Italy / Lamberto Bava / ★★1/2

- Demon's Apartment (San geng ban ye gui nao fang) / Taiwan / Feng-Pan Yao / ★
- Document of the Dead / USA [doc] / Roy Frumkes / ★★★

- Don't Mess With My Sister (American Junkyard) / USA / Meir Zarchi / ★★1/2

- Dragon Against Vampire (Hong tiao jing) / Hong Kong, South Korea / "Lionel Leung" / ★1/2
- Dream Hunter Rem (Dorimu Hanta Remu) / Japan [animated] / Seiji Okuda / ★★1/2
- Electric Blue 32 (Electric Blue: Too Hot to Handle) / UK, USA / Robert Veze / ★★1/2
- Eternal Evil (The Blue Man) / Canada / George Mihalka / ★★1/2

- Evil Heart (Ubawareta shinzô) / Japan [short] / Hikari Hayakawa / ★★1/2

- Evils of the Night / USA / Mardi Rustam / ★1/2

- Faces of Death III / USA [doc] / John Alan Schwartz / ★

- Fly, The (De vlieg) / Netherlands [short] / Hans Heijnen / ★★

- Fogbrook Thing, The (The Berko Brothers) / Australia [short] / Mark Osborn / ★★★

- Formula for a Murder (7, Hyden Park: la casa maledetta) / Italy / Alberto De Martino / ★★1/2

- Fortress / Australia [TV] / Arch Nicholson / ★★★

- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning / USA / Danny Steinmann / ★★

- Fright Show (Cinemagic: Fright Show) / USA / Jeffrey Baker, Frank Kerr, Jon Mostow, Damon Santostefano and Richard Taylor / ★★

- Gakidama (The Demon Within; The Tasty Flesh) / Japan / Masayoshi Sukita / ★★1/2

- Galaxy Invader, The / USA / Don Dohler / ★1/2

- Ghost Story (Draugasaga) / Iceland [TV] / Viðar Víkingsson / ★★1/2
- Ghoulies / USA / Luca Bercovici / ★1/2
- Greedy Terror (Shock Chamber) / Canada [TV] / Steve DiMarco / ★1/2

- Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (Ginî piggu: Akuma no jikken) / Japan / Satoru Ogura / ★★

- Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood (Ginî piggu 2: Chiniku no hana) / Japan / Hideshi Hino / ★★

- Hard Rock Zombies / USA / Krishna Shah / ★1/2

- Haunted Romance, A (Zai shi feng liu jie) / Hong Kong, South Korea / Myeong-hwa Jo, Ching Luk / ★★
- Horror House on Highway Five (Horror House on Highway 5) / USA / Richard Casey / ★

- Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf / UK, USA / Philippe Mora / ★1/2

- Igor and the Lunatics (Bloodshed) / USA / Billy Parolini / ★

- Junior (A Cut Above) / Canada, USA / Jim Hanley / ★★

- Krai Thong 2 / Thailand / Neramit, Sompote Saengduenchai / ★★1/2

- Lifeforce (Space Intruders; Space Vampires) / UK, USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★

- Making Contact (Joey) / West Germany / Roland Emmerich / ★1/2

- Mansion of the Living Dead (La mansión de los muertos vivientes) / Spain / Jesus Franco / ★

- Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (Nudo e selvaggio) / Brazil, Italy / Michele M. Tarantini / ★★★

- Medium / Poland, West Germany / Jacek Koprowicz / ★★

- Murderlust (Mass Murder) / USA / Donald M. Jones / ★1/2

- Mutilator, The (Fall Break) / USA / Buddy Cooper / ★1/2

- Naked Vengeance (Vengeance) / Philippines, USA / Cirio H. Santiago / ★★1/2
- New Kids, The / USA / Sean S. Cunningham / ★★

- New York Centerfold Massacre, The / USA / Louis Ferriol / NO STARS!

- Night Caller (Ping an ye; Silent Night) / Hong Kong / Philip Chan / ★★

- Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A / USA / Jack Sholder / ★★1/2

- Night Train to Terror / USA / John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen and Gregg C. Tallas / SBIG

- Nothing Underneath (Sotto il vestito niente) / Italy / Carlo Vanzina / ★★

- Quiet Earth, The / New Zealand / Geoff Murphy / ★★★

- Revenge of the Teenage Vixens from Outer Space / USA / Jeff A. Ferrell / ★★1/2

- Ripper, The / USA / Christopher Lewis / ★★

- Satan's Whisper (Bisikan Setan) / Indonesia / B.Z. Kadaryono / ★★

- Savage Island / Italy, Spain, USA / Edoardo Mulgaria, Ted Nicolaou / ★1/2
- Silver Bullet / USA / Daniel Attias / ★★1/2

- Southern Shockers (El espiritu del zombie) / USA / David Coleman / ★★

- Strangeness, The / USA / Melanie Anne Phillips / ★★

- Strange Regression (Extraña Regresión) / Colombia / Jairo Pinilla Téllez / ★1/2

- Stuff, The / USA / Larry Cohen / ★★1/2

- Survival Earth (Survival 1990) / Canada [TV] / Peter McCubbin / ★1/2

- Teen Wolf / USA / Rod Daniel / ★1/2

- Tenderloin (Haven of Horror) / USA / Louis Ferriol / ★

- Tenement (Game of Survival) / USA / Roberta Findlay / ★★1/2

- Ten Little Maidens (Ten Lil' Maidens) / USA [X] / John Seeman / ★★1/2
- Terror at London Bridge (Bridge Across Time) / USA [TV] / E.W Swackhamer / ★★
- Terror on Tape / USA / Robert A. Worms III / ★★

- Thirteenth Day of Christmas, The ("Time for Murder" series) / UK / Patrick Lau / ★★1/2

- Transmutations (Underworld) / UK / George Pavlou / ★1/2

- Transylvania 6-5000 / USA, Yugoslavia / Rudy De Luca / ★1/2

- Treasure of the Amazon, The (El tesoro del Amazonas) / Mexico, USA / René Cardona, Jr. / ★★★

- Victims! / USA / Jeff Hathcock / ★1/2

- Warning Sign / USA / Hal Barwood / ★★

- White Jungle Slave (La esclava blanca) / Spain / Jesus Franco / ★
- Woodcutter (Lesorub; Lumberjack) / Soviet Union [short] / Evgeniy Yufit / ★1/2
- You Killed Me First / USA [short] / Richard Kern / ★★

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