Subgenre Sampler
Paranorma: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Boo (2004)
- Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. M. Steven Felty
- A group of college students venture into an abandoned hospital on Halloween night for a cheap laugh, and end up trapped there while a gaggle of…
- Dead Birds (2004)
- Dir. Alex Turner
Feat. Henry Thomas, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Isaiah Washington…
- After a botched bank robbery during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate outlaws hole up in an abandoned plantation, finding themselves the…
- Eye 2, The (Jian Gui 2) (2004)
- Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Shu Qi, Jesdaporn Pholdee
- Another venture into Asian horror for the Brothers Pang, here thematically sequelling their 2002 hit with the tale of an unhappy woman who gains the…
- Grudge, The (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Bill Pullman…
- Unnerving imagery and soundscapes abound in the Japanese director's remake of his own horror film for a western audience, that while recast with…
- Hex (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender
- Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
- Hide and Seek (2004)
- Dir. John Polson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen…
- Bogeyman horror which has psychologist De Niro withdrawing to a lakeside mansion for some quiet time with his daughter, recently traumatized by her…
- Kingdom Hospital (TV Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd…
- Horror–writer Stephen King expands his King–dom with a solid adaptation of dir. Lars von Trier's celebrated Danish TV series "The…
- Marebito (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara…
- A delve into more conventional 'horror' for dir. Shimizo (THE GRUDGE), still retaining considerable austerity and dread with his fable of urban fears…
- Saint Ange (Sanatorium) (2004)
- Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Virginie Ledoyen, Katriona MacColl, Lou Doillon
- A young woman (Ledoyen) journeys into the remotes of the French Alps to help clean up an abandoned orphanage, but soon begins to notice strange…
- Village, The (2004)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody…
- A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…