Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Psycho: 60 Films to Rent on DVD
- When Strangers Appear (Shearer's Breakfast) (2001)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Barry Watson, Kevin Anderson…
- A piquant little thriller set at a lonely country rest–stop – Foxton standing in for Oregon – with dir. Reynold’s (HEAVEN, THE…
- Harry, He's Here to Help (With a Friend Like Harry,Who Needs Enemies?) (2000)
- Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas
- French festival–hit that invokes the delicious menace of Alfred Hitchcock with its insidious central character, Harry (Sergi Lopez) who invites…
- Tell Me Something (2000)
- Dir. Chang Yoon-Hyung
Feat. Han Suk-gyu, Shim Eun-ha
- A fine slice of Korean “giallo”, this is detective pulp of the lacquered–black, rain–drenched variety, with perverse/macabre…
- Psycho (1998)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
- Colour remake of Hitchcock's most famous film closely follows the original but never comes close to being anything other than a cheap gimmick.
The…
- Fear (1996)
- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, Alyssa Milano…
- Thriller from the Hollywood cookie–cutter about a chaste Daddy's girl who gets involved with creep Mark Wahlberg, who just gets creepier by…
- Seven (Se7en) (1995)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow…
- Director David Fincher imbues the hackneyed serial–killer genre with astonishing directorial flair, while bringing an influential 'underground'…
- Jack Be Nimble (1993)
- Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Alexis Arquette
- Alexis Arquette gets his American tongue around a Kiwi accent to portray an abused twin who finally reunites with his estranged sister. Though this…
- Sliver (1993)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger
- Sharon Stone rents an apartment which has not only hosted a number of in–house murders, but is also under constant surveillance by a perverted…
- Vanishing, The (1993)
- Dir. George Sluzier
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis…
- The director remakes his classic Dutch thriller for subtitle–phobes. Keifer Sutherland anguishes while Jeff Bridges hams it up as the eccentric…
- Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Rebecca De Mornay, Annabella Sciorra, Julianne Moore…
- Scheming psycho–nanny Rebecca De Mornay dismantles the idyllic homelife of Annabella Sciorra, to compensate her own miscarriage. Slick suspense…