10 Essential Thriller Movies of the 1980s

8º – Body Double (Brian De Palma, 1984)A man is completely obsessed with the figure of a young neighbor, secretly observing her, until an unfortunate event changes the course of everything. Film directed by one of the great masters of the history of the suspense in the cinema, ‘Body Double’ is a film that explores, above all, sexuality, entering a world of diverse fetishes, always having in the background its plot that develops in a cadenced form.

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7º – The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)After his girlfriend inexplicably disappears from a gas station, a man finds himself completely obsessed with finding out what had happened to his lifemate. Suspense sad and based on the development of life to frighten the viewer, ‘The Vanishing’ is a terrifying work on the strangest human motivations and the impossibility that we have to overcome certain facts of our history.

 

6º – The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)After escaping from an attempted murder of a man to whom he has taken a ride, a young man ends up encountering an insoluble ordeal when the man decides to pursue him in order to consummate his desire to kill him. Frantic, the work runs away from the traditional of the genre for the time, basing its plot on unappealing resolutions.

 

5º – Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)A man was in an accident, finding out later that, in fact, what he had seen had been murder. Using Brian De Palma’s best-known film elements, ‘Blow Out’ is a great movie and one of the best suspensions of the decade.

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