Horror Movies of the '80s Quiz

That's right, eight movies, nearly one per year, as Hollywood did its best to capitalize on a psychopath wearing a hockey mask.

"Gremlins" was too violent for its PG rating. The MPAA created the PG-13 rating to prevent another generation from the emotional trauma of watching cute, furry creatures turn into bloodthirsty demons.

Nicholson continued a trend of playing unhinged characters, this time a possessed writer named Jack Torrance.

He wrote and produced the movie. Another famous Hollywood man, Tobe Hooper, did the directing.

"Altered States" was no slasher — Barrymore and the rest of the cast explored the dark side of psychoactive drugs and lab experiments and how they affect the human mind.

"The Evil Dead" creator also directed "Darkman," as well as three Spider-Man movies.

Most of the nine sequels went directly to video and have gained a large cult following.

A splash of water causes the mogwais to replicate; some of them turn out to be violently aggressive.

The cemetery reanimates his young son, but his son's gentle soul has been replaced by pure evil.

Five "Elm Street" movies helped to cement Freddy Krueger as one of the ironic villains of the '80s.

A seance gone wrong marks the beginning of scary supernatural events in New York City.

The original "Halloween" was released in 1978, three years before the sequel.

The eerie scene in which Carol Anne says "they're here" has become one of the most iconic lines from horror movies.

In "Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI," Jason is tied to a boulder and sunk into a lake. But don't worry — he'll be back.

It is loosely based on two real-life killers, but it is a mishmash of ideas, not a true story.

A whopping four "Halloween" movies were released in the 1980s, including "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers."

"Critters" creators insisted that their script existed long before "Gremlins," but they still tweaked "Critters" to avoid accusations of copying the more famous film.

With more than $460 million in box office earnings, "Friday the 13th" just edges out "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Set in California, it portrays evil spirits that abscond with a terrified family's youngest daughter.

Liquid nitrogen sprays all over the Blob, causing it to freeze and shatter into countless Blob pieces.

Carpenter's "The Thing" effectively blended horror with science fiction and convinced many people that Antarctica was better left uninhabited.

King appeared in "Creepshow," alongside other notable talent such as Ted Danson and Leslie Nielsen.

The Cenobites are extradimensional weirdos who appear in all nine "Hellraiser" films.

In "The Company of Wolves," Lansbury is a kindly grandmother who is murdered by a werewolf.

Walken plays Johnny Smith, a man who awakens from a coma with weird psychic abilities that land him in strange and unnerving situations.

A hole in the backyard turns into a gate that demons use to invade and wreak havoc across the land.

Swayze might not have appeared, but "The Lost Boys" was packed with big names such as Corey Haim, Jami Gertz and Alex Winter.

The witch says that a corpse, combined with a splash of blood, will avenge the death of the father's son.

"The Fly" was certainly scary enough to scare people into the theater; it was director David Cronenberg's most successful box office hit.

"The Howling" was so successful that it spawned seven sequels.