Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Terminator, The (1984)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton - Breakthrough film for Schwarzenegger and its director, it's a high–powered action fantasy that set a precedent for the genre. And 'I'll be…
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Sting, Joan Plowright, Denholm Elliott… - Scripted by Dennis Potter, this cult psychodrama is set in the unstable household of Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliot, which is invaded by an…
Tenebrae (Unsane) (1982)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi - Compelling Argento thriller, with a typically contorted plot design – about a crime writer, whose books stimulate copycat killings – used…
Dressed to Kill (1980)- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen - A slick video nasty involving a murderer, a prostitute, a psychiatrist, a bored housewife and her resourceful son. In reworking PSYCHO, De Palma…
Fight For Your Life (1977)- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd - A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
Frenzy (1972)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster… - Hitchcock's last really great thriller, concerning a Cockney strangler plaguing the streets of London and setting up Jon Finch as the wrong man.…
Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain… - A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics". WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
Play Misty for Me (1971)- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills… - The film that inspired FATAL ATTRACTION stars Clint Eastwood as a late night radio talkhost whose female fan goes way over the line.
And Soon the Darkness (1970)- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice - Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
Boston Strangler, The (1968)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy - Undeniably fascinating but somewhat static docudrama about placid 1960s serial–killer Albert De Salvo (Tony Curtis), who underwent…
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