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Rental > Horror > Foreign Cinema: 109 Films to Rent on DVD
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, and…
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 of…
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…