Subgenre Sampler
Paranorma: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Alison's Birthday (1981)
- Dir. Ian Coughlan
Feat. Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou Brown
- Low–budget Ocker entry into the occult genre with Samuel's birthday celebrations with her Aunt and Uncle going horribly awry.
- Beyond, The (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck
- This eerie celluloid nightmare from Italian gore–meister Fulci can be fully appreciated in this uncut version, restoring its succession…
- Entity, The (1981)
- Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver
- Controversial sleazy horror, which has Barbara Hershey sexually molested by an invisible demon. Psychiatrist Ron Silver thinks it’s all in her…
- Ghost Story (1981)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Fred Astaire, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Melvyn Douglas…
- Eerie chiller based on the Peter Straub potboiler has four elderly gentlemen who are bound by a dark secret gather each week to tell each other…
- Survivor, The (1981)
- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten
- Aussie horror following a pilot who is the only survivor of a crashed Boeing 747–200, and subsequently begins to experience strange…
- Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980)
- Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
- Black Cat, The (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Patrick Magee
- Village crank Patrick Magee is suspected in a gruesome series of killings, linked by the presence of the black puss. Dodgy (dubbed) acting aside,…
- Boogeyman, The (1980)
- Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James…
- Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement.
An American production starring…
- Fog, The (1980)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…
- A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
- Shining, The (1980)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
- Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…