Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
- Dir. Jim Gillespie
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller
- A slick teen horror outing from the writer of SCREAM gives an ironic lift to several old Urban Legends, only this time with a straight…
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
- Dir. Danny Cannon
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt
- While unpredictable in its specifics, this sequel follows the same straight–faced, moderately scary path as its predecessor. Jennifer Love…
- Nightwatch (1998)
- Dir. Ole Bornedal
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette
- Ewan MacGregor checks in for morgue attendance in this Anglo remake of the director's own Danish thriller.
Must confess, we never watched this…
- Party Monster - The Shockumentary (1998)
- Dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- Compulsively sordid true story of one Michael Alig, whose success as a New York night club impresario devolved into drug abuse and the brutal murder…
- 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…
- Urban Legend (1998)
- Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Alicia Witt, Danielle Harris
- A serial killer is offing students in the manner of various urban legends (grisly rumours that become so commonly known they're accepted as fact).…
- Jack Frost (1997)
- Dir. Michael Cooney
Feat. Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel
- A modern Ed Wood–style horror comedy about a killer snowman terrorising a small rural community. While uneven, this is mostly better than it…
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
- Uncle Sam (1997)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Leslie Neale, David "Shark" Fralick, Isaac Hayes…
- Solid cast of exploitation 'character actors' lifts this quasi–satirical slasherfest about a Gulf War casualty who rises from his resting place…
- 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…