Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror > Paranorma: 162 Films to Rent on DVD
- House That Dripped Blood, The (1970)
- Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott…
- Juicy if variable four–part portmanteau film written by PSYCHO scribe, Robert Bloch, and adorned by the Cushing/Lee double–act as well as…
- Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern
- Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
- Gorgon, The (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…
- A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe
- A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
- Haunting, The (1963)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…
- Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie.
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- Terror, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff
- A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
- A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
- House On Haunted Hill (1958)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
- Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
- Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent
- This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
- Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
- A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors.
SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…