Subgenre Sampler
Paperhouse (1988)- Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill - Beautifully photographed English spook story about a schoolgirl who can enter a netherworld by simply drawing it on paper. A thinking person's…
Rouge (1988)- Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung - Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung - The first of a marvellous trilogy of outrageous fantasies set in Ming Dynasty–era China, in which student Leslie Cheung falls in love with an…
Gothic (1986)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson - Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner… - Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
House (1986)- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt - Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
Wraith, The (1986)- Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn… - Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
Mr. Wrong (1985)- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton - A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
Christine (1983)- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul - A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983)- Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…
- An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
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