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Rental > Horror > Paranorma: 162 Films to Rent on DVD
Fog, The (1980)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…
- A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
Shining, The (1980)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
- Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker…
- One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
- James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Changeling, The (1979)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
- An impeccably crafted ghost story that demands to be taken seriously, not least because of the dignified casting of George C. Scott as a recently…
Salem's Lot (1979)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
- Creepy Stephen King story made for TV, but no less scary for it. The town of Salem don't take kindly to nosy strangers!
Audrey Rose (1977)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck…
- Soberly told thriller which has a seemingly happy couple disturbed by a stranger's (Hopkins) claim that their child is his daughter, in reincarnated…
House (Hausu) (1977)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
- Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
Suspiria (1977)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett
- This is the quintessential Dario Argento feature – a hysterical gothic nightmare about a girl trapped in a sinister ballet academy.
Visually…
Signalman, The (1976)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott
- Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'.
Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…