Subgenre Sampler
Paranorma: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Don't Look Now (1973)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
- After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
- Legend of Hell House, The (1973)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill…
- Hoary British haunted house yarn based on Richard Matheson’s novel has four ‘experts’ (a skeptical physicist and his wife, a medium…
- Lost Hearts (1973)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Simon Gipps-Kent
- A powerful drama based on the ghost story by M. R. James about an elderly and excitable black magician who preys sinisterly upon children.
- Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
- Dir. Victor Erice
Feat. Ana Torrent
- Set after the Spanish Civil War, this gorgeous, moving still–life accounts a young girl's obsession with finding a 'spirit' after seeing…
- A Warning to the Curious (1972)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan
- A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…
- Baron Blood (1972)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti
- A resurrected 16th century warlock moves back into his old haunt to continue his macabre fantasies. A petrified Elke Sommer runs around in a…
- Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…
- Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
- Solaris (1972)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Juri Jarvet
- Brilliant imagery permeates this provocative insight into life on an isolated space station, where madness threatens all who work there. Paced to…
- Stone Tape, The (1972)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Jane Asher, Michael Bryant
- Interesting TV ‘one–off’ sees a boisterous electronic research–team set up in a run–down country estate, then become…
- Dunwich Horror, The (1970)
- Dir. Daniel Haller
Feat. Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley…
- Supernatural horror loosely adapting the novella of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, which builds on the Cthulhu Mythos.
Set in the fictional…