Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Monster Mash: 127 Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…
- Blob, The (1988)
- Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Kevin Dillon
- Effects–laden remake of the 50's classic sees Kevin Dillon get into some very sticky situations. Infamous for its…
- Child's Play (1988)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…
- 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
- Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, A (1988)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Robert Englund
- The franchise, now in full commercial flight, but bereft of new ideas, resorts to self–parody with Freddy Pizza Face Krueger having a riot…
- Pumpkinhead (1988)
- Dir. Stan Winston
Feat. Lance Henriksen
- Trashy directing debut for f/x expert Winston, with Lance Henrikson summoning up a vengeful demon.
- Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987)
- Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…
- Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
- Critters (1986)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane
- A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
- Chiller (1985)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill…
- Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
- Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987)
- Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano
- GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…