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Rental > Television > Paranorma: 35 Films to Rent
- Lovecraft Country (TV Series) (2020)
- Feat. Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors
- Examining racism in America's past through an unexpected genre, this HBO horror series follows a young black man across a segregated 1950s United…
- Outsider, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb…
- Slow burning crime TV series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, with Ben Mendelsohn playing a troubled detective in the Cherokee City…
- Haunting of Hill House, The (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Anthony Ruivivar, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser…
- Loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson, this modern serialized version flashes between past and present as a fractured…
- Wellington Paranormal (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Jemaine Clement, Jackie Van Beek
Feat. Karen O’Leary, Mike Minogue, Maaka Pohatu
- An inspired spin–off TV series from WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS that expands the role of lovably clueless police officers O'Leary and Minogue…
- Preacher (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joe Gilgun…
- Much acclaimed adaptation of the DC Comics series with Dominic Cooper as a small town preacher possessed by a supernatural force.
- Enfield Haunting, The (2015)
- Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Chilly British horror mini–series from the director of the Danish series THE KILLING, based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book 'This House Is…
- Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Nicholas Pinnock, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie
- TV miniseries following a female vicar who works as an exorcist. Cheerfully creepy Middle–England gothic from the pen of supernatural mystery…
- Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series) (2012)
- Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall…
- Atmospheric 3–part BBC adaptation of the novel by prolific British horror writer James Herbert that connects a supernatural mystery between two…
- Fades, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer…
- Adventurous BBC supernatural thriller concerns the apocalyptic visions of an English teenager, who comes to learn that the dead spirits only he can…
- Marchlands (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston…
- Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
- Haven (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour
- An FBI agent finds herself inextricably linked to the paranormal activity in the fictional north eastern town of Haven, Maine, in this eccentric…
- Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet (TV Series) (2010)
- Comedian Leigh "That Guy" Hart fronts this irreverent, ham–fisted send–up of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, visiting various corners…
- Being Human (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, Aidan Turner
- Supernatural sitcom has three British twenty–somethings struggling with their respective alter–egos as a vampire, ghost and werewolf.
- Rabbit Fall (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Andrea Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Peter Kelly Gaudreault
- Unusual curio traces life in the small Canadian town of Rabbit Fall with new cop Menard having more than just petty crime to contend with as she…
- Death Note (TV Series) (Deathnote) (2006)
- Anime serial of the cultish good vs. evil parable follows on from the manga and live–action versions in retelling the battle between a cocky…
- Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim
- Further primetime paranormal activity, with a prissy Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small town newlywed overcoming her initial skepticism at being able to…
- Medium (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber
- Moderately–spooky paranormal soap–opera with Patricia Arquette playing a psychic attached to the DA's office in Phoenix, Arizona, who…
- Supernatural (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
- Two brothers scour the countryside for urban myths and legends, stumbling upon various paranorma, horror movie moments and other unexplained events…
- Hex (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender
- Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
- Kingdom Hospital (TV Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd…
- Horror–writer Stephen King expands his King–dom with a solid adaptation of dir. Lars von Trier's celebrated Danish TV series "The…
- Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005)
- Feat. Eliza Dushku
- Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
- Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006)
- Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer
- Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
- Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
- Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
- A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
- Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005)
- Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs
- A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
- Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
- Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
- Sleepwalker Project, The (TV Series) (Sleepwalkers) (1997)
- Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts
- With a premise that's a cut above the usual sci–fi series imagination, this has a team of researchers at the Morpheus Institute use special…
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe (TV Series) (1994)
- Follow–up to the popular MYSTERIOUS WORLD series with Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigating more strange phenomena around the…
- Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…
- An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
- Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980)
- Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
- Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson
- A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
- Signalman, The (1976)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott
- Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'.
Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
- A Warning to the Curious (1972)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan
- A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…
- Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…
- Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
- Stone Tape, The (1972)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Jane Asher, Michael Bryant
- Interesting TV ‘one–off’ sees a boisterous electronic research–team set up in a run–down country estate, then become…
- Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (TV Series) (1968)
- Feat. Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare
- Fondly remembered sitcom based on the R. A. Dick novel (itself made into a 1947 film) about a young widow and family who befriend a ghost haunting…