Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Deviltry: 81 Films to Buy & Rent
- Lady Death (2004)
- Elevated feature–length anime based on the "Lady Death" comic series about a beautiful girl accused of consorting with the devil and sentenced…
- Cradle of Fear (2002)
- Dir. Alex Chandon
Feat. Dani Filth
- An imprisoned child–killer wreaks vengeance on his enemies with the help of a satanic angel played by rock star Dani Filth.
Told as four…
- Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)
- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu
- A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan.
Imbued with a…
- Frailty (2002)
- Dir. Bill Paxton
Feat. Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
- After a spiritual visitation, Bill Paxton and his two young sons take an axe to unsuspecting “evil–doers” in the late 1970s, while…
- Malefique (2002)
- Dir. Eric Valette
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac
- Imaginative, atmospheric low–budget French horror, set around the discovery of a dusty book of supernatural spells by four convicts in their…
- Long Time Dead (2001)
- Dir. Marcus Adams
Feat. Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont
- Though hip, slick and atmospheric, this British horror entry for the multiplexes is at once straight–faced and silly, and strictly…
- Truth About Demons, The (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons) (2001)
- Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Karl Urban, Katie Wolfe, Jonathan Hendry…
- A sceptical occult investigator (Karl Urban) can't shake off the increasingly grotesque visions that are seemingly the handywork of a vengeful…
- Lost Souls (2000)
- Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…
- Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
- Ninth Gate, The (2000)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin…
- An unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) is sent to Europe by a mysterious tycoon (Frank Langella) to recover an authentic, elusive (and of course,…
- Stigmata (1999)
- Dir. Rupert Wainwright
Feat. Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne
- Throwback to the heyday of the 'religious horror film' of the 1970s (see THE EXORCIST, THE OMEN), this dense thriller has atheist Patricia Arquette…