Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Suspense &g: 30 films to Buy on VHS
Fracture (2004)
- An impressively staged adaptation of Maurice Gee's novel "Crime Story", set around two equally fractured families who enter each other's orbit after…
- VHS $10
Spooked (2004)
- An ambitious though uneven thriller based on the true–life NZ case of a computer expert who ended up with disc–fulls of incriminating…
- VHS $10
Matchstick Men (2003)
- A moderately engaging caper comedy from dir. Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage as an obsessive–compulsive type whose profession as a conman…
- VHS $19.95
Monster (2003)
- Powerful dramatization of the story of female serial–killer Aileen Wournos, strong enough to support an astonishing, Oscar–winning…
- VHS
$25 $12.50 | Poster (VG) $12.95
Gang Tapes (2001)
- An original twist on the largely moribund 'gangbanger' thriller, in which the camcorder home–videos of a ghetto–based gang member are…
- VHS $24.95
Brother (2000)
- Dir. Kitano’s first US film fuses his touch for wincingly intense violence with a ironical, comic streak that plays off the dynamics of the…
- VHS $10
Exposure (2000)
- Moody thriller about a former war photographer, now washed up doing nude shots in New Zealand, who becomes embroiled in a murder…
- VHS $10
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)
- The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
- VHS
$25 $12.50
Stickmen (2000)
- A crowd–pleasing and assured sports–fetish movie, this doesn't shy from being dubbed 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Pool Cues', with its…
- VHS $5
Scarfies (1999)
- Kiwi icons – Dunedin, rugby, Flying Nun music, student life – upholster a formula but well–executed crime plot in which five…
- VHS $10