Subgenre Sampler
Psycho: 194 Films to Buy & Rent
- Knife in the Water (1962)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
- The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono…
- Joan Crawford and Bette Davis scheme and brood in this memorable gothic melodrama about an aged child star and her embittered and jealous sister who…
- Homicidal (1961)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin
- Twisted, camp and expensively photographed B–movie follows the antics of a dispicable platinum blond, whose bouts of psychotic murder serve an…
- Circus of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…
- After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
- While Hitchcock's PSYCHO received raves reviews and general acceptance, Michael Powell's equally contentious but brilliant film was condemned as…
- Psycho (1960)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles…
- Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career.
A plethora of…
- Psycho Collection, The (Psycho, Psycho 2, Psycho 3, Bates Motel TV-Movie, Psycho 4, Psycho Remake) (1960-1998)
- Feat. Anthony Perkins
- Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Ed Nelson
- This has the twin distinction of being both a hilarious send–up of 'beat' culture and a ripping black comedy. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a…
- She-Creature, The (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…
- A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
- Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)
- Dir. Gerd Oswald
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward…
- The first and best version of Ira Levin's (ROSEMARY'S BABY) early novel, in which status–anxious student Wagner plots the murder of his…