10 Messed Up '80s Horror Movies That Must Be Seen To Be Believed

There's something magical about 1980's horror movies that simply can't be found in any film made before or since. On the outskirts of all the classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining there were your cheesy movies full of giant monsters, gross out special effects, and some of the most incomprehensible plots you'll ever find on the big screen.

During this time, the genre began to see a shift back to the schlocky movies of the late 1950s like Attack of the Crab Monsters and Earth vs. The Spider. While the majority of horror films in the '70s were rather serious, featuring realistic killers and reflecting anxiety over the Vietnam war, the '80s were anything but. Filmmakers got back into making fun, intentionally goofy movies with Ash Williams killing zombies while spouting one liners, calling on you to turn off your brain and have a good time.

This was also the age of glorious practical effects and meticulously designed creatures, as opposed to just making every movie monster with CGI. Looking back, though, some filmmakers may have taken this idea of producing crazy, messed up, borderline incomprehensible movies a bit too far...

Street Trash is, as the title suggests, complete and utter trash, but if that's what you're looking for, you won't be disappointed. In this 1987 movie, a guy who owns a liquor store in New York City finds a 60 year old bottle of wine called Tenafly Viper in his basement. It's gone bad, but he decides to sell it to hobos for one dollar a bottle anyway.

Little does he know that drinking Viper causes a person to violently melt away into nothing, because that's what happens when you drink old wine, right? In one of the first scenes, a man drinks a bottle and his skin begins to melt, his bones actually start breaking away from his body, and he sinks into a toilet. He tries grabbing on the lever to get out, but he just ends up as a liquefied head floating in the toilet covered in some gross blue substance. That sequence sets the tone for everything that comes after, which is equally as repulsive.

Seemingly trying to top itself and make viewers want to vomit, there's another scene where a bunch of hobos play football with a severed penis. Just...why? If you're looking for a gross out movie to make you constantly ask what the hell you're watching, Street Trash certainly delivers.