Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Foreign Cinema: 159 Films to Rent
- Seance (2000)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho
- A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
- Tomie: Replay (2000)
- Dir. Tomijiro Mitsuishi
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kenichi Endo, Tomorowo Taguchi
- Second (and best) installment in the manga–inspired series continues the vengeful streak of 'Tomie', the undying…
- Wild Zero (2000)
- Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf
- Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
- Charisma (1999)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi
- An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
- Criminal Lovers (Amants criminels, Les) (1999)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Natacha Regnier, Miki Manojlovic
- Before he made the lighter 8 WOMEN, dir. Ozon established his credentials with this twisted wee horror, which fearlessly ventures into sadistic and…
- Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
- Nameless, The (Los Sin Nombre) (1999)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde
- A family, devastated by the murder of their daughter, are sent into a fresh spin by her seeming re–appearance five years later in this visually…
- Tomie (1999)
- Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Miho Kanno
- A severed head in a paper bag mutates into the film's titular school girl from hell in this malevolent Japanese horror offering genuine creeps under…
- Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi
- A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
- Ring (Ringu) (1998)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada
- A cult phenomenon in Japan and everywhere else it’s played, it’s since spawned a sequel, a prequel, both a Korean and American remake, and its…