Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Psycho: 90 Films to Rent on DVD
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
- Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Robert Englund
- Apparent conclusion to the long tired 'Elm St.' series has ol' pizza face invading the dreams of adolescents nationwide in 2001. Further installments…
- Misery (1990)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. James Caan, Kathy Bates
- You'll have a far from miserable experience watching novelist James Caan nursed back to health by his psychotic number one fan (Kathy Bates in an…
- Shocker (1990)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Michael Murphy, Peter Berg
- Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repair man meets his maker on death row...or has he? A frenetic mix of coal black humour and graphic violence from the…
- Intruder (1989)
- Dir. Scott Spiegel
Feat. Elizabeth Cox, Renee Estevez, Dan Hicks…
- Under–seen late entry from the 80's slasher cycle from EVIL DEAD co–writer Scott Spiegel.
A claustrophobic thriller set entirely in a…
- Terror at the Opera (Opera) (1989)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini…
- A sort of DIVA of the horror genre, Argento happily abandons plot mechanics to provide a bravura display of his technical skill. Contains at least…
- Anguish (1987)
- Dir. Bigas Luna
Feat. Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul…
- What starts off as a run–of–the–mill slasher suddenly takes a turn into a highly effective movie–within–a–movie.…
- Flowers in the Attic (1987)
- Dir. Jeffrey Bloom
Feat. Louise Fletcher, Kristy Swanson, Victoria Tennant
- Adaptation of the Virginia Andrews book, about attic–bound children.
- Stepfather, The (1987)
- Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Shelley Hack
- This psycho doesn't waste time with marriage guidance when a few waves of a machete is the quick and easy solution! Superior…
- Cassandra (1986)
- Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. Tegan Charles, Tessa Humphries, Dylan O'Neill…
- Quite watchable Aussie horror is set around a young woman's visions of her brother stabbing somebody to death during her childhood years. Using a…
- Stagefright (Deliria) (1986)
- Dir. Michele Soavi
Feat. David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti
- Highly admired by some, this stylish Italian slasher–horror concerns an insane actor who escapes confinement and stumbles into the rehearsals…