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

You've seen some weird movie monsters, but how about a movie where the creature is...ice cream? Yep, that's the plot of this completely real cult hit from 1985. In The Stuff, railroad workers are out one night when they discover a mysterious white substance coming out of the ground. Naturally they decide to eat it, and when they realize it tastes good, it's quickly sold around the nation in supermarkets everywhere.

Of course it's a huge success, as the company markets it as being an ice cream that has no calories, failing to mention the whole thing about it being some weird goop that nobody knows much about. Well, it's later revealed that The Stuff is a living organism that takes over the brain and turns those who eat it into mindless zombies, which becomes a not so subtle metaphor for capitalism turning Americans into mindless consumers of whatever crap is put on store shelves. Could this be any more '80s?

It's all very self-aware and silly, though, and the death scenes are classic, gory goodness. In the movie's best scene, out of absolutely nowhere in the middle of a conversation, this guy's head just freaking bursts open and The Stuff starts flooding out. It's so relentlessly nasty that it's hilarious, and that's what these '80s horror movies were best at.