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Subgenre Sampler

 
BruiserBruiser (2000)
Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope
Jason Flemyng plays a weak–willed and miserable office executive who wakes to find he's literally lost his identity. His 'blank face' becomes…
CutCut (2000)
Dir. Kimble Rendall
Feat. Molly Ringwald
Solid Australian variation on SCREAM, with an imported Molly Ringwald helping complete a horror film abandoned some years before due to an…
Ed GeinEd Gein (In the Light of the Moon) (2000)
Dir. Chuck Parello
Feat. Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgrass
Sombre biopic of the 1950s Wisconsin serial–killer, whose macabre exploits were the basis for PSYCHO and many other movies. Steve Railsback…
Urban LegendUrban Legend (1998)
Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Alicia Witt, Danielle Harris
A serial killer is offing students in the manner of various urban legends (grisly rumours that become so commonly known they're accepted as fact).…
Jack FrostJack Frost (1997) Recommended
Dir. Michael Cooney
Feat. Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel
A modern Ed Wood–style horror comedy about a killer snowman terrorising a small rural community. While uneven, this is mostly better than it…
Guilty As Charged (1992)
Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Isaac Hayes
Resourceful and 'well–executed' black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a religious zealot who fries sinners in his home–made electric chair.…
Trauma (1992)
Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie
A young girl becomes convinced she will be the next victim after a seance reveals a murderer in their midst. Argento's first American film will…
Leatherface: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990)
Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. William Butler, Miriam Byrd-Nethery
Judging by the title this makes a bid in the horror franchise stakes, but death–by–chainsaw just never quite caught the teenage…
Stepfather 2, The (1989)
Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster
Terry O'Quinn returns for more slaying in suburbia in a better–than–average sequel. Highlight is a sequence that gives literal meaning to…
American GothicAmerican Gothic (1988)
Dir. John Hough
Feat. Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Sarah Torgov
Creepy psychos living on a remote isle make life hell for holiday–making teens. Sound familiar? It is, but done with a certain inventive…

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