Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Horror: 163 Films to Buy & Rent
- Hatching (2021)
- Dir. Hanna Bergholm
Feat. Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen
- Hanna Bergholm's feature debut has finally put Finland on the horror film map – an enchanting pubescent allegory about a 12–year–old…
- Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)
- Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
Feat. Dong-won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee
- A standalone sequel to the 2016 action–horror hit TRAIN TO BUSAN, with director Yeon Sang–ho returning for a less focused but no less…
- Bacurau (2019)
- Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Feat. Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen…
- Fiercely political and utterly distinctive film blending elements of neo–western, ethnography, gonzo and horror, set in a fictional Brazilian…
- Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho…
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- Good Manners (2017)
- Dir. Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Feat. Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano
- A genre–defying Portuguese film which artfully blends social satire and horror to tell the story of a nanny called Clara, who works for Ana, a…
- One Cut of the Dead (Kamera wo tomeruna!) (2017)
- Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Feat. Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama
- Ridiculously fun and gleefully inventive movie–within–a–movie where the crew of a low–budget zombie film are terrorised by…
- Terrified (Aterrados) (2017)
- Dir. Demián Rugna
Feat. Maxi Ghione, Elvira Onetto, Norberto Gonzalo…
- Supremely creepy yet thoughtful Argentine horror–drama set in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood plagued by paranormal occurrences. Stacked with…
- Thelma (2017)
- Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Eili Harboe, Henrik Rafaelsen, Kaya Wilkins…
- A gracefully unsettling Nordic thriller about a painfully shy young woman whose oppressed, conservative upbringing and burgeoning passion for a…
- Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
- Dir. Kentaro Hagiwara
Feat. Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu
- A live–action adaptation of the manga series by Sui Ishida. In modern day Tokyo, flesh–eating ghouls live among humans, and after…
- Personal Shopper (2016)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie…
- Utterly beguiling psychological horror closely following a troubled personal shopper to a fashion–world celebrity, who attempts to make contact…
- Raw (Grave) (2016)
- Dir. Julia Ducournau
Feat. Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf
- A bright young veterinary student and ardent vegetarian is unexpectedly subjected to a series of cruel hazing rituals in her first week at college,…
- Terraformars: The Movie (2016)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Kane Kosugi…
- A team of human exterminators are on a mission to wipe out a ridiculous cockroach infestation that plagues the red planet, after a terraforming…
- Under the Shadow (2016)
- Dir. Babak Anvari
Feat. Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi
- As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post–revolution, war–torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious, oppressive…
- Untamed, The (La región salvaje) (2016)
- Dir. Amat Escalante
Feat. Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza
- Unforgettable psycho–sexual horror featuring a multi–tentacled alien which becomes the source of obsession for members of a Mexican…
- Wailing, The (Goksung) (2016)
- Dir. Hong-jin Na
Feat. Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee
- A bumbling police officer in a rural South Korean town investigates a series of horrific murders in this deeply immersive occultist thriller by the…
- Baskin (2015)
- Dir. Can Evrenol
Feat. Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu…
- A police squad inadvertently wander into hell in this terrifying tour–de–force feature debut from Turkish director Can Evrenol, which…
- Lure, The (2015)
- Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska
Feat. Marta Mazurek
- Utterly beguiling musical horror set in Poland in the 1980's, following the fate of a pair of mermaid sisters as they struggle to integrate into a…
- Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)
- Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Martin Starr
- Direct sequel to the wintery zombie hit features more undead Nazis, Russkie POWs and other WWII foes.
- Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014)
- Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Feat. Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
- A languid and luscious Iranian immigrant take on the vampire myth set in the ghost–town of Bad City (filmed in California), where the remaining…
- Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh ich seh) (2014)
- Dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Feat. Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest
- A sleek, uncompromising psycho–thriller from the Michael Haneke school of Austrian austerity centred around twin boys whose perception of their…
- Killers (2014)
- Dir. Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Feat. Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Katzuo Kitamura
- A serial killer from Japan and Indonesia compete in a twisted game of one–upmanship by posting their latest sadistic crimes online in this…
- Over Your Dead Body (Kuime) (2014)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Ebizo Ichikawa, Miho Nakanishi…
- Takashi Miike takes his cues from the art of Kabuki in this chilly tale of how fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors as they rehearse a…
- Parasyte: Part One (2014)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…
- Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
- Borgman (2013)
- Dir. Alex Van Warmerdam
Feat. Jan Bijvoet, Jeroen Perceval , Hadewych Minis
- Unforgettably creepy home–invasion thriller from Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, where a rural vagrant preys on an arrogant upper class…
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de naze warui) (2013)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Kunimura Jun, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Fumi Nikaido
- Described by its creator as "an action film about the love of 35mm", this frenzied fanboy fiction from Shion Sono bears his trademark excess and…
- Dead Sushi (2012)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda
- An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
- Lesson of Evil (Lesson of the Evil) (2012)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Yamada Takayuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hideaki Ito
- Another manga adaption from director cult Takashi Miike based on the seinen manga on the same name.
A successful English teacher who is secretly a…
- Thale (2012)
- Dir. Aleksander Nordaas
Feat. Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold
- An artful, serious–minded horror fantasy based on the Norwegian legend of the Hydra – a seductive, shape–shifting Scandanavian…
- Four (2011)
- Four cutting–edge tales of horror from the creators of ONG BAK and 13: GAME OF DEATH.
Clean–up Day
Four friends are discussing the…
- Hell (2011)
- Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
Feat. Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler
- Earth has been parched by solar flares in this resourceful variation on the oft–told post–apocalyptic survival tale. Swiss–German…
- Juan of the Dead (2011)
- Dir. Alejandro Brugués
Feat. Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina
- A direct and surprisingly inspired Hispanic take on the SHAUN OF THE DEAD zom–com model that makes nifty use of its unique Cuban locale and…
- Livid (2011)
- Dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Feat. Chloé Colloud, Catherine Jacob, Marie Claude-Pietragalla
- The directors of the revered French horror film 'Inside' try their hand at the haunted house genre, with predictably savage but also surprisingly…
- Monk, The (2011)
- Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Deborah Francois, Sergi Lopez
- A devout monk (Cassell) experiences a crisis of faith which in turn manifests into a malevolent force in this abstract, atmospheric horror adapted…
- Sleep Tight (2011)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan…
- Unsettling portrait of a concierge who's romantic obsession with one of the tenants involves slowly sabotaging every aspect of her life.
- Bedevilled (2010)
- Dir. Chul-soo Jang
Feat. Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji
- Nasty, though serious–minded Korean horror about a city dweller who, upon returning to the remote island of her youth, discovers her childhood…
- Big Tits Zombie (The Big Tits Dragon) (2010)
- Dir. Takao Nakano
Feat. Saori Andô, Sola Aoi
- Big, dumb fun born from Japan's recent spate of outrageous splatter comedies, centred on three air–headed strippers who unwittingly unleash an…
- Caged (Captifs) (2010)
- Dir. Yann Gozlan
Feat. Zoé Félix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh
- Standard–issue captivity horror revolves around a humanitarian aid worker who is kidnapped by a group of masked assailants while in Eastern…
- I Saw the Devil (2010)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi
- Terrifying revenge thriller following a man on a hunt for the serial killer who murdered his pregnant wife. Exceedingly brutal, this makes for a…
- Julia's Eyes (2010)
- Dir. Guillem Morales
Feat. Belen Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui…
- Produced by Guillermo Del Toro this atmospheric chiller with a woman who is slowly losing her sight trying to investigate the mysterious death of…
- Kidnapped (Secuestrados) (2010)
- Dir. Miguel Ángel Vivas
- Brutally authentic Spanish horror in which three hooded criminals break into a family home in a gated community, holding the others hostage whilst…
- Last Circus, The (2010)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang
- Clown rivalries collide in this violent, OTT genre riot from Spanish trash auteur, Alex de la Iglesia, set at both ends of Franco's dictatorship…
- Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi
Feat. Yumi Sugimoto, Tak Sakaguchi
- Japan's outlandish splatter–comedy phase reaches its logical end point with this three–chapter collaboration between the most notorious…
- Rare Exports - A Christmas Tale (2010)
- Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Onni Tommita, Jorma Tommila
- A wicked brew of 80s adventure movie and twisted horror comedy, centred on an archaeological discovery which may prove to be the remains of the real…
- Troll Hunter (2010)
- Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Otto Jespersen
- Three college kids who set out to make a documentary about illegal bear hunters encounter more than bargained for in this thrilling Norwegian…
- We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht) (2010)
- Dir. Dennis Gansel
Feat. Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich
- A fraulein vampire flick of sleek, urbane sensibility, centred on an alpha–female vamp (Nina Hoss) who descends on Germany in search of a soul…
- 5150 Elm's Way (5150 Rue des Ormes) (2009)
- Dir. Éric Tessier
Feat. Marc-André Grondin, Normand D'Amour, Sonia Vachon…
- A man unwittingly places himself in the hands of a righteous, psychopathic chess player when he falls off his bike on a quiet suburban street and…
- Amer (2009)
- An experimental journey inside the mind of a sociopathic woman. Isolated chapters cover the details of her bizarre surreal childhood and sexually…
- Dead Snow (Død Snø) (2009)
- Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner
- Nordic splatter comedy pitches a group of fresh–faced medical students against a hoard of re–animated Nazis in the snowy highlands.…
- Ju-On: White Ghost / Jun-On: Black Ghost (2009)
- Dir. Ryuta Miyake
Feat. Hiroki Suzuki, Natsuki Kasa, Ichirota Miyakawa
- Two inclusions to the Japanese supernatural horror JU–ON series, released simultaneously. Both are a series of chronologically inconsistent…
- Red Nights (2009)
- Dir. Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud
Feat. Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng
- This tantalizing far East giallo offers both gruesome kill sequences and flamboyant erotic style in its story of a sadistic patron of the arts (NAKED…
- Thirst (Bakjwi) (2009)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Kim Ok-bin, Ha-kyun Shin
- A voracious vampire movie not afraid to explore the corrupting and liberating power of being undead, starring THE HOST’s burly Song Kang–ho…
- Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009)
- Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Eri Otoguro
- Another enjoyable stock effort from the makers of TOKYO GORE POLICE et. al, this combines home–brewed splatter, ropey special effects, and…
- [REC 2] (REC 2) (2009)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Feat. Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza
- Sequel to the smash Spanish fright fest has a Special Ops team heading into the quarantined apartment at the same time three teenagers let their…
- Dead in 3 Days (Dead in Three Days) (2008)
- Dir. Andreas Prochaska
- Chilling Austrian slasher involving a group of teenagers who must discover a serial killer’s identity in order to save themselves from getting…
- Let The Right One In (2008)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
- Sending many critics into raptures as a vampire flick to finally get excited about, this frost–bitten Swedish entry mixes social realism with…
- Machine Girl, The (2008)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Minase Yashiro, Asami Miyajima
- Brainless ultra–violence combines straighforward revenge narrative with a novelty twist: a plucky schoolgirl, whose stand against local…
- Martyrs (2008)
- Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
- You, the viewer, may feel martyred after enduring this unremittingly bleak French horror focused on a pair of unhinged women who seek revenge on the…
- Sauna (2008)
- Dir. Antti-Jussi Annila
Feat. Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko
- Something of a hybrid of the historical epic and ghost story, this unique genre entry from Finland concerns two brothers haunted by a young girl whom…
- Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
- Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny
- Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
- Apartment 1303 (2007)
- Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Noriko Nakagoshi
- A woman is led to investigates a series of suicides in an apartment after her sister moves in and then throws herself off the balcony during her…
- Dororo (2007)
- Dir. Akihiko Shiota
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Electrifying action fantasy based on a manga comic by the grandfather of Anime – Osamu Tezuka (ASTRO BOY), in which an abandoned samurai's son…
- Fear(s) of the Dark (Fears of the Dark, Peur(s) du noir) (2007)
- Dir. Blutch , Charles Burns, Marie Caillou
- Six dynamic and distinct graphic artists illustrate various primordial phobias using only 'light and dark' in this impressive compendium of animated…
- Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007)
- Dir. Xavier Gens
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan
- Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
- Kaidan (2007)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Kumiko Aso
- Period J–horror from the director of THE RING relays the ghostly tale of a samurai’s son attempting to escape an ancient curse laid on his…
- King of the Hill (El Rey de la montaña) (2007)
- Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Maria Valverde
- A well–crafted, believable take on the lost–in–the–woods genre, about a man who follows an attractive stranger into the…
- Orphanage, The (El Orfanato) (2007)
- Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Feat. Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo
- Exemplary exercise in suggestive horror storytelling from first time feature director Bayona, with Belen Rueda superb as a woman who returns to her…
- [REC] (REC) (2007)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
- Sinister Spanish horror, from European creepy movie maestro Jaume Balaguero, which follows a callout from a Barcelona fire station to an apartment…
- 13: Game Of Death (2006)
- Dir. Chukiat Sakveerakul, Stewart St. John
- Twisted Thai horror in which a down–and–out salesman, targeted by a mysterious phone call, is offered millions if he can complete 13…
- Darna Zaroori Hai (You Gotta Be Scared) (2006)
- Dir. Ram Gopal Varma
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Sunil Shetty
- Bollywood does horror in this six film omnibus told from the perspective of five children accosted by an old woman who begins to tell them stories…
- Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor, Daywatch) (2006)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov
- The vampiric Muscovite forces of Good and Evil fight it out again in this frenetic, fantastic FX fantasy every bit as good as the first one (NIGHT…
- Re-Cycle (Gwai Wik) (2006)
- Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
- Chinese gore connoisseurs Danny and Oxide Pang embark on another otherworldly excursion in this horror about an author who realises the supernatural…
- Retribution (2006)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara
- A skin–crawling 'mainstream' J–Horror from subtle spookmeister Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this trades heavily in established genre elements, but…
- Sheitan (2006)
- Dir. Kim Chapiron
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Roxane Mesquida
- A gaggle of young hedonists on a bender expend their energies at a disco and are invited by pouting barmaid Mesquida (A MA SOUER) to her remote…
- Them (Ils) (2006)
- Dir. Xavier Palud, David Moreau
Feat. Olivia Bonamy, Michael Cohen, Adriana Mocca…
- French horror that takes the 'home invasion' subgenre to chilling new heights, sees a young couple terrorized in their home by unseen intruders.…
- P (The Possessed) (2005)
- Dir. Paul Spurrier
Feat. Suangporn Jaturaphut
- A youngster’s flirtation with witchery and the occult gives rise to an unspeakable evil in this humid Thai horror.
Part soft–core porn,…
- Rampo Noir (Rampo jigoku) (2005)
- Dir. Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi, Atsushi Kaneko
Feat. Tadanobu Asano
- Salacious quartet of horror segments all featuring actor Tadanobu Asano, with directing duties taken by four Japanese indie mavericks, crafting arty…
- Red Shoes, The (Bunhongsin) (2005)
- Dir. Yong-gyun Kim
Feat. Hye-su Kim
- Asian horror's preoccupation with inanimate objects continues in this self–consciously stylish, blood–curdling spin on the Hans Christian…
- Reincarnation (2005)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Yuka
- Another freak–out from the dir. of THE GRUDGE that manages to transport the flaccid J–horror template into a more interesting,…
- Tokyo Zombie (2005)
- Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…
- An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
- Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) (2004)
- Dir. Oxide Pang
Feat. Race Wong, Rosanne Wong
- Dir. Oxide Pang's solo followup to THE EYE is also a voyeuristically themed nerve–shredder, set around a young and rich photography student…
- Dumplings (Gaau ji) (2004)
- Dir. Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Miriam Yeung
- Grotesque feature length version of Fruit Chan’s submission to the THREE…EXTREMES Asian horror omnibus, this time expanding the deplorable fable…
- Eye 2, The (Jian Gui 2) (2004)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Shu Qi, Jesdaporn Pholdee
- Another venture into Asian horror for the Brothers Pang, here thematically sequelling their 2002 hit with the tale of an unhappy woman who gains the…
- Ghost, The (Ryeong) (2004)
- Dir. Tae-Kyeong Kim
Feat. Ha-Neul Kim, Sang-Mi Nam
- Modest, but reasonably unnerving ghost story in which an amnesiac university student is seemingly last on a list of friends being dispatched one by…
- Infection (Kansen) (2004)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Michiko Hada, Shirô Sano
- A further twist on the vengeful spirit genre sees a burns patient return from the dead as a lethal infection, liquefying victims' internal organs in…
- Koma (2004)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Angelica Lee
- The attractive Lee plays a feckless young woman with kidney problems who gets caught up in a scandal involving a gang of organ thieves.
This…
- Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor, aka. Nightwatch) (2004)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov
- A mega–hit in its native Russia, this sci–fi–horror–action cocktail concerns a running battle on the mean streets of…
- Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
- Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
- Premonition (Yogen) (2004)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai
- Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…
- Spider Forest (2004)
- Dir. Il-gon Song
Feat. Suh Jung, Woo-seong Kam
- A refined and non–linear 'K–horror' concerns an amnesiac filmmaker whose foggy memories of the recent past concern a vast wild forest, a…
- They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004)
- Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…
- This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…
- Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works.
'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
- Anatomie 2 (2003)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Competently staged sequel again set in a clinical German medical school, where a new student gradually uncovers a program of human experimentation…
- Green Butchers, The (De grønne slagtere ) (2003)
- Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- Grim comedy focused on two down–and–out butchers who discover they can make a killing out of their customer's oblivious cannibalistic…
- Grudge 2, The (Ju-On 2) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie…
- Followup to the original Japanese version of dir. Takashi's own JU–ON, this proffers an almost identical vision, with a TV crew visiting the…
- Grudge, The (Ju-On) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
- A horror film that understands that fear is best painted blacker than molasses, this cult Japanese hit follows in the ghostly steps of the RING…
- High Tension (Haute tension, Switchblade Romance) (2003)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Cecile De France, Maïwenn
- A grisly yet indeed tense French horror movie directed with stunning virtuosity, about two women whose rural weekend getaway turns horrific when they…
- One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…
- Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
- Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa Hongryeon) (2003)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim…
- A further revelation of the K–horror genre, this enters the forboding world of two devoted sisters who endure the lakeside household of their…
- Dark Water (2002)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno
- Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
- Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
Imbued with a…
- Eye, The (2002)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou
- Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
- Fiancée of Dracula (2002)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Cyrille Gaudin, Jacques Orth, Thomas Smith
- A late addition in the filmography of cult fantasy director Jean Rollin, who once again turns his attention to vampire mythology in this tale of a…
- In My Skin (Dans Ma Peau) (2002)
- Dir. Marina de Van
Feat. Marina de Van
- A disturbing, cerebral manifest on the nature of self–mutilation, portrayed with serious conviction by writer/dir. Marina de Van, regular…
- Malefique (2002)
- Dir. Eric Valette
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac
- Imaginative, atmospheric low–budget French horror, set around the discovery of a dusty book of supernatural spells by four convicts in their…
- Phone (2002)
- Dir. Byeong-ki Ahn
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim
- Down the more cluttered and preposterous end of the Korean–horror genre, this finds a new cellphone being the centre of all the terror for an…
- Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase
- Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
- Three...Extremes 2 (Three) (2002)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim, Nonzee Nimbutr, Peter Chan
Feat. Leon Lai, Eric Tsang
- Dubbed the second entry in the THREE...EXTREMES horror series, this pan–asian omnibus actually precedes said anthology, offering a trio of…
- Vampire Hunters (2002)
- Dir. Wellson Chin
Feat. Ken Chang
- Typically enjoyable and overblown Hong Kong mayhem, where five powerful warriors battle the Vampire King and his followers.
Written and produced…
- Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) (2001)
- Dir. Christophe Gans
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Mark Dacascos
- A ripping, action–packed 18th century detective story based on the true–life case of the Beast of Gevaudan – a killer or creature who…
- Devil's Backbone, The (2001)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Frederico Luppi, Marisa Paredes
- This elegant amalgam of melodrama and horror movie set in a boys orphanage during the Spanish Civil War is rich in baroque atmospherics, and features…
- Isle, The (2001)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Suh Jung, Kim Yoo-Suk, Park Sung-Hee
- An art–shocker with a distinctly Asian streak of the perverse, this counterpoints a striking visual tableaux and tranquil setting with the…
- Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Kumiko Aso, Koji Yakusho, Koyuki…
- A clandestine by–product of the post–RING phenomenon, this refined and wholly disconcerting tale of a supernatural internet pandemic…
- Ring 2 (2001)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato
- Esteemable sequel to the 1998 original, this finds the supernaturally fatal videotape – the one that causes death, a week after watching it –…
- Shadow of the Wraith (Ikisudama) (2001)
- Dir. Toshiharu Ikeda
- Fitfully scary J–horror is set around a series of disconnected horrors in two halves: first, at a high school plagued by a creepy…
- Sleepless (Non ho Sonno) (2001)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli
- A welcome return to his 'giallo' roots by dir. Argento, turning a tangled tango between a serial–killer and recently–retired detective…
- Tomie: Re-birth (2001)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
- Third entry in the J–horror series continues the vile career of the titular schoolgirl, here playing a murder victim who comes back to haunt…
- Trouble Every Day (2001)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, Alex Descas…
- This messy yet mesmerizing tale of visceral sexual obsession has vamp Beatrice Dalle spoiling a couple's Paris honeymoon when she develops a carnally…
- Visitor Q (Bizita Q) (2001)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe…
- Miike Takashi's most controversial film – which in this case is really saying something – finally coming to video (?).
A legendarily…
- Anatomie (2000)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Franke Potente
- Franke Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) stars as a bright medical student at an elite college who discovers her fellow freshmen and women are turning up as…
- Isola (Tajuu jinkaku shôjo) (2000)
- Dir. Toshiyuki Mizutani
Feat. Yoshino Kimura
- Curious but finally rather tepid riff on the J–Horror genre has a psychic woman (Kimura) travelling to the city of Kobe to offer help in the…
- Pet Shop of Horrors (2000)
- Horror–tinged anime set in a mysterious pet shop in New York's Chinatown, where the androgynous proprietor 'Count D' has a sinister pet for…
- Ring 0 (2000)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Seilchi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka
- Prequel to the first RING film details the transformation of the innocent schoolgirl Sadako in 50s Japan into the murderous demon who haunts the…
- Seance (2000)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho
- A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
- Tomie: Replay (2000)
- Dir. Tomijiro Mitsuishi
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kenichi Endo, Tomorowo Taguchi
- Second (and best) installment in the manga–inspired series continues the vengeful streak of 'Tomie', the undying…
- Wild Zero (2000)
- Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf
- Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
- Charisma (1999)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi
- An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
- Criminal Lovers (Amants criminels, Les) (1999)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Natacha Regnier, Miki Manojlovic
- Before he made the lighter 8 WOMEN, dir. Ozon established his credentials with this twisted wee horror, which fearlessly ventures into sadistic and…
- Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
- Nameless, The (Los Sin Nombre) (1999)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde
- A family, devastated by the murder of their daughter, are sent into a fresh spin by her seeming re–appearance five years later in this visually…
- Tomie (1999)
- Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Miho Kanno
- A severed head in a paper bag mutates into the film's titular school girl from hell in this malevolent Japanese horror offering genuine creeps under…
- Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi
- A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
- Ring (Ringu) (1998)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada
- A cult phenomenon in Japan and everywhere else it’s played, it’s since spawned a sequel, a prequel, both a Korean and American remake, and its…
- Ring: The Spiral (Rasen) (1998)
- Dir. Jôji Iida
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani
- The 'lost' first sequel to RINGU, follows on from the tale of the lethal videotape and the demonic Sadako with the rather prosaic solution to the…
- Cure (1997)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki…
- Delivering one of the great, unsung horror movies, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa plumbs the depths of societal malaise with this novel take on serial…
- Funny Games (1997)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering…
- Michael Haneke’s disturbing, self–reflexive examination of violence, and violence as entertainment, in which two young men dressed in tennis…
- Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Udo Kier
- Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy.
Raising the…
- Day of the Beast (1996)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Alex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura
- If Almodovar made a horror movie it might look like this – beautifully shot and designed, funny and exciting. Though he can't quite sustain the…
- Ebola Syndrome, The (1996)
- Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Anthony Wong
- Birthed from the notorious "Category 3" underbelly of Hong Kong cinema, this close relative of THE UNTOLD STORY features another deranged murderer on…
- Satan Returns (1996)
- Dir. Allan Lam
Feat. Chingmy Yau, Donnie Yen
- On a rash mission to find the devil's daughter, a cult member with strange powers resorts to wrenching the hearts (and we mean literally) of women…
- Eko Eko Azarak (Wizard of Darkness, Birth of the Wizard, Misa the Dark Angel) (1995)
- Dir. Shimako Sato
Feat. Kimika Yoshino
- Highly impressive and lurid high–school horror, has a teenage girl (Yoshino) contending with coven of Satanic witches at her new school, who…
- Untold Story, The (1993)
- Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Danny Lee, Anthony Wong
- Outrageous gross–out thriller that may put you off Chinese food for life – based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took…
- Cronos (1992)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Frederico Luppi, Ron Perlman
- Elderly antique dealer Federico Luppi discovers the ancient (and sought–after) 'Cronos' device, which has the power to give eternal life, but…
- Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead (1990)
- Dir. Chun-Yeung Wong
Feat. Sonny Chang, Kathy Chow, Hei Man Chui
- In taking advantage of the relaxation of some Asian countries regarding nudity, this comic horror mixes erotic fantasy into a tale of a wimpish…
- Living Dead Girl, The (1982)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Marina Pierro, Francoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall
- Rollin's dream–like visual style dominates this Gallic blood–lusting romp about a sexy vampire whose trail of gore engulfs her in bitter…
- House By the Cemetery (1981)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza, Catriona MacColl…
- One of the most notable from the filmography of director Lucio Fulci is this haunted house movie in which the guests at a New England home are…
- Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) (1980)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- A groundbreaking Hong Kong blend of martial arts action, horror, and slapstick humour, set around Hung's attempts to battle the voodoo and hopping…
- Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979)
- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang
- A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
- Grapes of Death, The (Les Raisins de la Mort) (1978)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
- Eco–thriller set in the French countryside where a dangerous pesticide used in a local vineyard has turned residents into the walking dead.…
- House (Hausu) (1977)
- Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
- Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
- Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973)
- Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo
- Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
- Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian…
- A compelling Giallo mystery from Italian master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND) following a detective investigating a series of child murders in a southern…
- Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
- Dir. Aldo Lado, Vittorio De Sisti
Feat. George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi…
- Moody Italian giallo horror about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice.
The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation…
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli…
- Another brilliantly lurid psycho–sexual horror from Italian giallo master Sergio Martino (THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH).
Edwige Fenech…
- Daughters of Darkness (Le Rouge aux Levres) (1971)
- Dir. Harry Kumel
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau…
- Significant, sultry vampire horror, justly celebrated for its blend of understated dread, unusual eroticism and elegant trappings which has been…
- Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Bruno Corazzari…
- Mesmerising giallo horror starring 70's Italian cinema queen and frequent Martino collaborator Edwige Fenech as the socialite wife of a diplomat who…
- Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
- Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon
- Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu) (1970)
- Dir. Jaromil Jireš
Feat. Jaroslava Schallerová
- Mesmerising surrealist horror film from Czechoslovakia, following a young heroine as she encounters vampires, priests, and other fantasy characters…
- Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…
- A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest.
Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
- Cremator, The (1968)
- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova
- Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
- Kuroneko (1968)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
- Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe
- A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
- Roman Polanski Collection, The (Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac) (1962-1966)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
- The first three features of the Polish master – "Knife in the Water", "Repulsion" and "Cul–de–Sac".
- Eyes Without a Face (Yeux sans visage, Les) (1960)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
- Landmark European horror tells with French artistry and tonal malevolence the magnificent obsession of a surgeon determined to restore his…