Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
- Twisted Nerve (1968)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills
- Hywel Bennett is suitably creepy as a homicidal youth who befriends a nubile Hayley Mills. Unnerving gothic melodrama is well served by Bernard…
- Gruesome Twosome (1967)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
- Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe…
- A masterpiece of crime fiction adapted from Truman Capote’s novel about events surrounding the senseless murder of an innocent family by two…
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
- A blind Audrey Hepburn is trapped in her apartment by psycho–beatnik Alan Arkin, who's looking for hidden heroin. Based on a stageplay, this…
- Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten
- Macabre shocks and bitter twists spike this outrageous gothic melodrama about an ageing, lonely Bette Davis disturbed by pressure from council…
- Repulsion (1965)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve
- Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
- Spider Baby (1964)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- More of a twisted black comedy than a traditional horror flick – a threesome of child monsters and their ‘uncle’ rabidly protect their rural…
- Strait-Jacket (1964)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
- Dementia 13 (1963)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
- An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
- Sadist, The (1963)
- Dir. James Landis
Feat. Arch Hall Jr.
- Like BADLANDS, this little–known drive–in flick is based on the infamous Starkweather murder spree of the late 50s, and is never less…