Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Squirm (1976)
- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy
- A storm–toppled powerline drives large (and vicious) sandworms out the surrounding swamp–waters, terrifying the local populace in this…
To the Devil...a Daughter (1976)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski
- A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.
Ash Tree, The (1975)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood
- Short film adaptation of the ghost story by M R James. A man of leisure inherits the family estate after his uncle dies, and finds himself…
Blue Sunshine (1975)
- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Zalman King
- Clinical, worthy Cronenberg–style horror about people who took an experimental strain of LSD in the 60's to emerge 10 years later as balding,…
Crazies, The (1975)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones
- Underrated low–budgeter about germ warfare, a personal favourite of Romero's. Fast–paced editing creates some real excitement.
Ghoul, The (1975)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, John Hurt
- In the foggy moors of the 1920's, one of Peter Cushing's 'gate crashers' disappears and turns up dismembered, initiating a disturbing pattern. …
Jaws (1975)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw
- Brilliantly executed, famously scary Spielberg pic about a killer fish. Spawned three forgettable sequels (also available!) and dozens of imitations.
Le Orme (Footprints on the Moon) (1975)
- Dir. Luigi Bazzoni
Feat. Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Klaus Kinski…
- Italian B–movie with director Luigi Bazzoni following in Argento's footsteps to tell a story of the psychological unraveling of an isolated…
Race with the Devil (1975)
- Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates
- Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and their bell–bottomed chicks go east in a Winnebago, but are plagued en route by an occult conspiracy. Memorably…
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…
- Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…