Subgenre Sampler
Paranorma: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Rouge (1988)
- Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung
- Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
- Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung
- The first of a marvellous trilogy of outrageous fantasies set in Ming Dynasty–era China, in which student Leslie Cheung falls in love with an…
- Gothic (1986)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson
- Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…
- Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
- House (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt
- Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
- Wraith, The (1986)
- Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn…
- Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
- Mr. Wrong (1985)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton
- A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
- Christine (1983)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
- A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
- Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…
- An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight…
- A rowdy spirit disrupts suburban tranquility for an average family when it kidnaps their 5–year–old daughter. The horror film receives an…