Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Paranorma: 168 Films to Rent
- Dark Water (2002)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno
- Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
- Darkness (2002)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen…
- The dir. of THE NAMELESS proffers a largely familiar tale of a family relocating to a remote Spanish farm, and becoming entrapped in a supernatural…
- DreamCatcher (2002)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore…
- Four childhood friends, who share psychic powers and an annual appointment to go male–bonding in the Maine backwoods, are inadvertantly drawn…
- Eye, The (2002)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou
- Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
- Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
- Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
- A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
- Phone (2002)
- Dir. Byeong-ki Ahn
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim
- Down the more cluttered and preposterous end of the Korean–horror genre, this finds a new cellphone being the centre of all the terror for an…
- Ring, The (2002)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox
- Fitfully creepy American remake of the influential Japanese horror film that surprisingly manages to replicate the foreboding (and uniquely Japanese)…
- They (2002)
- Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Laura Regan
- Wes Craven 'presents' this supernatural suspenser, which though unambitious, presents its scenario with enough artful suggestion to interest…
- Devil's Backbone, The (2001)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Frederico Luppi, Marisa Paredes
- This elegant amalgam of melodrama and horror movie set in a boys orphanage during the Spanish Civil War is rich in baroque atmospherics, and features…
- Others, The (2001)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes, Christopher Eccleston
- Ghostly tale in the classic tradition of Henry James, conjuring a spectral fog of unease from a gaunt mansion on the island of Jersey in 1945,…