Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1659 Films to Buy & Rent
Kitchen Sink (1989)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Theresa Healy, Peter Tait, Anagretta Christian
- Three shorts from director Alison Maclean. Her 1989 award–winning Gothic horror is here paired with two earlier works, TALKBACK (1987), and the…
Nightbreed (1989)
- Dir. Clive Barker
Feat. Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg
- Novelist Clive Barker's follow–up film to HELLRAISER is again saturated with fantastic monsters and bone–crunching visuals. A dark adult…
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child, A (1989)
- Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Robert Englund
- Fourth sequel milks the wise–cracking dream–demon premise to the point of exhaustion. Still, the franchise continues to provide a handy…
Parents (1989)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis
- Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
Pet Sematary (1989)
- Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
- A competent scarefest scripted by Stephen King from his own novel about a country doctor's experiences with things that won't stay dead.
Puppet Master, The (1989)
- Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle
- Puppetsploitation movie from Charles Band's Full Moon production house about a group of psychics who find themselves plotted against by a former…
Return of the Swamp Thing, The (1989)
- Feat. Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Dick Durock
- Everyone's favourite muck–encrusted plant–man is back in a sequel so bad, it's better than the original!
The campy…
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher
- Tobe Hooper's so–bad–its–not–bad cheapie about a man suffering from troubling side–effects after the nuclear explosion…
Stepfather 2, The (1989)
- Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster
- Terry O'Quinn returns for more slaying in suburbia in a better–than–average sequel. Highlight is a sequence that gives literal meaning to…
Stephen King's World of Horror (1989)
- Doco covering the various facets of Stephen King's works, plus tributes to fave movies.