Every decade produces some amazing horror movies, but there was something extra special about the boom the genre experienced during the 1980s. When I throw on an old horror movie for background noise (and yeah, I know, the sounds of death shouldn’t be background noise), I’m probably picking something from the '80s. There was an exciting level of experimentation with genre mashing that allowed horror to take on all types of forms, proving it to be one of the most versatile categories in cinema.