Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Paranorma: 168 Films to Rent
- 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…
- 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…
- 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. …
- 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…
- ...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
- Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell
- Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
- Don't Look Now (1973)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
- After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
- Legend of Hell House, The (1973)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill…
- Hoary British haunted house yarn based on Richard Matheson’s novel has four ‘experts’ (a skeptical physicist and his wife, a medium…
- Lost Hearts (1973)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Simon Gipps-Kent
- A powerful drama based on the ghost story by M. R. James about an elderly and excitable black magician who preys sinisterly upon children.
- A Warning to the Curious (1972)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan
- A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…