Subgenre Sampler
Deviltry: 112 Films to Buy & Rent
Devilman (2004)
- Dir. Hiroyuki Nasu
Feat. Hisato Izaki
- Clunky live–action manga adaptation saddles a dorky teenager with the fate of mankind, forcing him to adopt the characteristics of a…
Eternal (2004)
- Dir. Wilhelm Liebenberg
Feat. Sarah Manninen, Caroline Néron
- A rather anaemic vampire thriller has the attractive Néron play the modernday Montreal incarnation of the bloodthirsty Countess Bathory, who uses…
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, James D'Arcy, Isabella Scorupco
- A latterday prequel to the horror series starring Stellan Skarsgard as Father Merrin, who rediscovers his lost faith in East Africa upon his first…
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…
Shortcut to Happiness (Devil and Daniel Webster, The) (2004)
- Dir. Alec Baldwin
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt…
- Alec Baldwin's sole directorial outing is something of a misfire, with Baldwin as a struggling author who's Faustian bargaining is his…
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…