Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror: 1597 Films to Rent
Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (1964-1992)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- A superb, forty–year anthology of the terrifying, eccentric short films of Jan Svankmajer, the influential and cutting edge Czech…
Kwaidan (1964)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe
- A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price
- Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Masque of the Red Death (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…
- The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…
- Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
Nightmare (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…
- Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
Phantom of the Opera (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…
- British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux.
The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Connie Mason, William Kerwin
- One of the more enjoyable of Herschell Gordon Lewis' early gore efforts, with a better and funnier idea than most – southern town celebrates…
Black Sabbath (Three Faces of Fear) (1963)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi…
- Finely wrought three–part portmanteau film from the talents of Italian horror–maestro Mario Bava. Boris Karloff provides the…
Blood Feast (1963)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
- Blame this one! – The pioneer of the splatter film, the first to graphically depict human entrails etc. Very bad acting and a ludicrous plot…