Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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,…
- Black Christmas (1974)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder…
- A superior precursor to psychological 'slasher' films like HALLOWEEN, this is set around a group of women in a sorority house, about to return home…
- Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper…
- A genuine oddity, this musical/horror spans both dir. De Palma’s satirical and horror periods, with the story of the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA updated…
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
- Candy Snatchers, The (1973)
- Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza
- An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
- Deranged (1973)
- Dir. Alan Ormsby
Feat. Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
- Closely modelled on the exploits of Ed Gein (whose notoriety also inspired PSYCHO and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), Roberts Blossom is…
- Sisters (1973)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Margot Kidder
- This early De Palma film is a gripping account of a woman (Margot Kidder) who discovers her twin sister is a homicidal maniac. Features an…
- Theatre of Blood (1973)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
- Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…
- Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
- Flesh and Blood Show, The (1972)
- Dir. Pete Walker
Feat. Ray Brooks, Patrick Barr, Jenny Hanley…
- Horror following the fates of two British thespians who audition for a play being rehearsed at an abandoned theatre by the sea, but the entire…