Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 191 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blitz (2011)
- Dir. Elliott Lester
Feat. Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen…
- Subtlety–free actioner with Statham as a brutish cop given free reign to bring in a serial cop–killer. Almost oppressively violent with a…
- Scream 4 (2011)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Ghostface is back in this series 'reboot', with Campbell returning to the unfortunate town of Woodsboro and bringing with her more…
- Hatchet 2 (2010)
- Dir. Adam Green
Feat. Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd
- More gory homaging from Adam Green in this even nastier sequel that has our nominal heroine returning to the swamp with a crack team of killers to…
- Killer Inside Me, The (2010)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba…
- Casey Affleck disturbs as a psychotic small town sheriff struggling to cover his bloody tracks in this grim, stylish neo–noir.
Adroitly…
- Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009)
- Dir. Daniel Monzon
Feat. Alberto Ammann, Luis Tosar, Vincente Romero…
- A substantial hit in its native Spain, this brutal thriller doubles as an intelligent critique of the Spanish penal system, with a young prison guard…
- I'm Not Harry Jenson (2009)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson
Feat. Gareth Reeves, Ian Mune, Marshall Napier…
- Tensely conceived, enterprising Kiwi thriller finds a true crime novelist so deeply invested in the violent subject of his latest book, that he…
- Last House On The Left (2009)
- Dir. Dennis Iliadis
Feat. Sara Paxton, Monica Potter, Garret Dillahunt…
- Predictable remake to the 70s original sees a group of killers unknowingly take refuge with the vengeful parents of one of their victims.
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny…
- Dir. Werner Herzog and David Lynch as producer team up for this bizarre tale of an actor driven to murder his mother in sunny, suburban San Diego…
- Run Bitch Run! (2009)
- Dir. Joseph Guzman
Feat. Christina DeRosa, Cheryl Lyone, Peter Tahoe
- Cheap and nasty pastiche of old school grindhouse flicks that sees two Catholic schoolgirls seek brutal revenge on their attacker.
- Within the Whirlwind (2009)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart…
- The memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian academic sentenced to ten years labor in a Siberian Gulag, are brought to life in this harrowing account…