Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Fly, The (1986)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis
- Cronenberg's most accessible work is an ingenious re–working of the 1958 film that works as well for its contemporary audience as the original…
From Beyond (1986)
- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree
- The director of RE–ANIMATOR interprets another great H.P. Lovecraft story as a kinky, effects–laden romp about monsters unleashed from a…
Gothic (1986)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
- Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
House (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt
- Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
Island of the Alive (It's Alive 3) (1986)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Karen Black
- Eschewing the subtle creepiness of the first ALIVE movies, this goes for a more blackly comical tale of mutant babies, placed out of harm's way on a…
King Kong Lives (1986)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton
- A truly blasphemous sequel to the already inessential 1976 remake, has the big ape somehow survive the fall from the World Trade Centre but needing a…
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
- Dir. Stephen King
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington
- Dubbed the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE of the '80's, Stephen King's attempt to direct this film about demonic trucks fails miserably, but all is not lost…
Night of the Creeps (1986)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…
- Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Nomads (1986)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down
- Murky plot sees Pierce Brosnan discovering Indian spirits terrorising L.A.
Rawhead Rex (1986)
- Dir. George Pavlou
Feat. David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Lora Lunny
- Scripted by cult novelist Clive Barker, a demonesque monster runs riot in an Irish village where an American historian is staying with his family.