Subgenre Sampler
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- Last House on the Left, The (1972)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
- Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
- And Soon the Darkness (1970)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice
- Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
- Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The (1970)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall
- The milestone debut from the supreme Italian horror–meister Dario Argento, this set the pattern for his many many subsequent forays into…
- I Drink Your Blood (1970)
- Dir. David Durston
Feat. Bhaskar , Rhonda Fultz, Lyn Lowry
- A Manson–style hippie–cult make trouble in a small village but taste the wrath of a young boy who infects their meat pies with rabies –…
- Gruesome Twosome (1967)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
- Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
- Repulsion (1965)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve
- Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
- Dementia 13 (1963)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
- An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
- Circus of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…
- After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
- Psycho (1960)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles…
- Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career.
A plethora of…
- She-Creature, The (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…
- A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…