6 Old-School Horror Movies for Nostalgic '80s and '90s Scares - Netflix Tudum

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    Old-School Horror Movies That’ll Make You Sleep with the Lights On

    From shape-shifters to creepy nannies, these films are full of vintage scares.

    By Caitlin Busch
    July 24, 2026

All scares are good scares. Highbrow or lo-fi, a bump in the night or a bucket of blood, supernatural entities or serial killers — why limit yourself to just one type of horror movie? If you want something old-school that’ll keep you up at night, the ’80s and ’90s served up many flavors of terror — films about interlopers seeking ill-advised revenge, knife-brandishing butchers (of both the masked and toy variety) hunting their victims with glee, and unwitting heroes battling preternaturally vicious beasts.

Keep scrolling for all kinds of retro horror flicks that will scare you silly, now streaming on Netflix.

Child's Play 2

Wanna play? Don Mancini’s Good Guy returns to wreak giddy havoc in this 1990 sequel. Two years ago, Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) barely survived his run-in with Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), the murderous doll possessed by the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray. With his mother institutionalized, Andy is taken in by foster parents Phil (Gerrit Graham) and Joanne (Jenny Agutter). But just as Andy begins to settle in and connect with his new foster sister, the disaffected Kyle (Christine Elise), Chucky arrives — he’s been resurrected by his profit-obsessed manufacturers. Can Andy endure another bloody round with his “friend to the end,” or will Chucky have the last laugh? Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks) and Beth Grant (Remarkably Bright Creatures) co-star.

Child's Play 2
1h 23m   R   1990
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