Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Psycho: 101 Films to Rent
- 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…
- Scream (1996)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…
- The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
- Guilty As Charged (1992)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Isaac Hayes
- Resourceful and 'well–executed' black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a religious zealot who fries sinners in his home–made electric chair.…
- Trauma (1992)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie
- A young girl becomes convinced she will be the next victim after a seance reveals a murderer in their midst. Argento's first American film will…
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
- Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Robert Englund
- Apparent conclusion to the long tired 'Elm St.' series has ol' pizza face invading the dreams of adolescents nationwide in 2001. Further installments…
- Leatherface: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990)
- Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. William Butler, Miriam Byrd-Nethery
- Judging by the title this makes a bid in the horror franchise stakes, but death–by–chainsaw just never quite caught the teenage…
- Misery (1990)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. James Caan, Kathy Bates
- You'll have a far from miserable experience watching novelist James Caan nursed back to health by his psychotic number one fan (Kathy Bates in an…
- Shocker (1990)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Michael Murphy, Peter Berg
- Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repair man meets his maker on death row...or has he? A frenetic mix of coal black humour and graphic violence from the…