Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Psycho: 14 Films to Rent on VHS
- Bruiser (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…
- Cut (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 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 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 Frost (1997)
- 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 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…