Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
- Frenzy (1972)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster…
- Hitchcock's last really great thriller, concerning a Cockney strangler plaguing the streets of London and setting up Jon Finch as the wrong man.…
- Gore, Gore Girls, The (1972)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin
- Trash–king Hershell Gordon Lewis hung up his film–making hat after this effort about the serial murders of Go–Go dancing strippers,…
- Last House on the Left, The (1972)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
- Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
- Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)
- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain…
- A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics".
WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
- Play Misty for Me (1971)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills…
- The film that inspired FATAL ATTRACTION stars Clint Eastwood as a late night radio talkhost whose female fan goes way over the line.
- And Soon the Darkness (1970)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice
- Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
- Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The (1970)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall
- The milestone debut from the supreme Italian horror–meister Dario Argento, this set the pattern for his many many subsequent forays into…
- I Drink Your Blood (1970)
- Dir. David Durston
Feat. Bhaskar , Rhonda Fultz, Lyn Lowry
- A Manson–style hippie–cult make trouble in a small village but taste the wrath of a young boy who infects their meat pies with rabies –…
- Boston Strangler, The (1968)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
- Undeniably fascinating but somewhat static docudrama about placid 1960s serial–killer Albert De Salvo (Tony Curtis), who underwent…
- Pretty Poison (1968)
- Dir. Noel Black
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld
- A fan of PSYCHO? Then check out Anthony Perkins in this chilling tale of a couple of psychos in love. Tuesday Weld glitters as a teenage bad seed.