Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror: 1596 Films to Rent
Poltergeist (1982)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight…
- A rowdy spirit disrupts suburban tranquility for an average family when it kidnaps their 5–year–old daughter. The horror film receives an…
Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
- Dir. Amy Holden Jones
Feat. Robin Stille, Michelle Michaels, Michael Villella…
- Iconic 80s slasher movie, if only for its plainly prosaic title. Set around a group of teenage girls whose overnight get–together, spiced by…
Swamp Thing (1982)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
- Wes Craven's tongue–in–cheek film version of a popular D.C. comic book character, makes no apology for its cheesy make–up and…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
- Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal
- TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
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…
Thing, The (1982)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…
- Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
Xtro (1982)
- Dir. Harry Bromley Davenport
Feat. Maryam d'Abo, Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer
- Sci–fi horror about a man who is abducted by aliens, then shows up three years later looking for his son. Pretty good fun, with some…
Alison's Birthday (1981)
- Dir. Ian Coughlan
Feat. Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou Brown
- Low–budget Ocker entry into the occult genre with Samuel's birthday celebrations with her Aunt and Uncle going horribly awry.
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter
- Screamingly funny resuscitatation of the werewolf genre is great fun for the whole family, replete with Oscar–winning effects and many a great…
Beyond, The (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck
- This eerie celluloid nightmare from Italian gore–meister Fulci can be fully appreciated in this uncut version, restoring its succession…