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Welcome rankers and non-rankers alike to "Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror". Over the past few months, the rankers here watched or rewatched 30 juggernauts of the 80s horror scene ranging from cult classics to mainstream smashes known and referenced the world over. It was the decade that brought us slashers, iconic monsters, and some of the most famous & chilling practical effects ever put to screen. And now, they will be definitively ranked - which films were the scream of the crop, or, when it came to the 80s, was dead better?

The rankers:
Bitto
Evilordexdeath
Fortybelowsummer
Inviso
Jcgamer107
Johnbobb
Karo
Lightning
Mythiot
Plasmabeam
Rockus
Seginustemple
Snake

The films
The Changeling (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Possession (1981)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Creepshow (1982)
Basket Case (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Christine (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Gremlins (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Phenomena (1985)
Re-Animator (1985)
Fright Night (1985)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The Fly (1986)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Predator (1987)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Childs Play (1988)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Points will be in the next post