Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Psycho: 90 Films to Rent on DVD
- Scream 3 (2000)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Less comic than before but otherwise it's more ironic psycho–trouble on the Woodsboro lot for regulars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David…
- Audition (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
- An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
- 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…
- Halloween H20 (1998)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis
- Or Halloween Twenty Years Later, adjourns from the original classic, undistracted by the whole lamentable trail of sequels (six at last count).…
- 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…
- 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).…
- 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…