Subgenre Sampler
Paranorma: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006)
- Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer
- Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
- 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…
- Hypnotic (Doctor Sleep) (2002)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson…
- The smouldering Visnjic (THE DEEP END) plays a hypnotherapist who has the gift of receiving startling visualisations from the minds of his…
- Inner Senses (Yee do hung gaan) (2002)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Maggie Poon
- A loner psychologist (Cheung) falls for a suicidal woman he is treating for her constant, gloomy visions of the dead, in this stylish Asian riff on…
- 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…
- Mothman Prophecies, The (2002)
- Dir. Mark Pellington
Feat. Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton…
- Drawing on an actual event and mythical explanation, this eerie tale concerns widower reporter Richard Gere, who becomes embroiled in the hunt for a…
- 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…