Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Foreign Cinema: 156 Films to Rent on DVD
- Dororo (2007)
- Dir. Akihiko Shiota
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Electrifying action fantasy based on a manga comic by the grandfather of Anime – Osamu Tezuka (ASTRO BOY), in which an abandoned samurai's son…
- Fear(s) of the Dark (Fears of the Dark, Peur(s) du noir) (2007)
- Dir. Blutch , Charles Burns, Marie Caillou
- Six dynamic and distinct graphic artists illustrate various primordial phobias using only 'light and dark' in this impressive compendium of animated…
- Frontier(s) (Frontiers) (2007)
- Dir. Xavier Gens
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan
- Bludgeoning sadistic fantasy, following in the footsteps of other French exponents of the rather unsavoury torture–porn mini–genre, this…
- Kaidan (2007)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Kumiko Aso
- Period J–horror from the director of THE RING relays the ghostly tale of a samurai’s son attempting to escape an ancient curse laid on his…
- King of the Hill (El Rey de la montaña) (2007)
- Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Maria Valverde
- A well–crafted, believable take on the lost–in–the–woods genre, about a man who follows an attractive stranger into the…
- Orphanage, The (El Orfanato) (2007)
- Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Feat. Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo
- Exemplary exercise in suggestive horror storytelling from first time feature director Bayona, with Belen Rueda superb as a woman who returns to her…
- [REC] (REC) (2007)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
- Sinister Spanish horror, from European creepy movie maestro Jaume Balaguero, which follows a callout from a Barcelona fire station to an apartment…
- 13: Game Of Death (2006)
- Dir. Chukiat Sakveerakul, Stewart St. John
- Twisted Thai horror in which a down–and–out salesman, targeted by a mysterious phone call, is offered millions if he can complete 13…
- Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor, Daywatch) (2006)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov
- The vampiric Muscovite forces of Good and Evil fight it out again in this frenetic, fantastic FX fantasy every bit as good as the first one (NIGHT…
- Re-Cycle (Gwai Wik) (2006)
- Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
- Chinese gore connoisseurs Danny and Oxide Pang embark on another otherworldly excursion in this horror about an author who realises the supernatural…