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Rental > Suspense/Crime > Psycho: 60 Films to Rent on DVD
Stepfather, The (1987)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Terry O'Quinn, Shelley Hack
- This psycho doesn't waste time with marriage guidance when a few waves of a machete is the quick and easy solution! Superior…
Cassandra (1986)
- Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. Tegan Charles, Tessa Humphries, Dylan O'Neill…
- Quite watchable Aussie horror is set around a young woman's visions of her brother stabbing somebody to death during her childhood years. Using a…
Terminator, The (1984)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
- Breakthrough film for Schwarzenegger and its director, it's a high–powered action fantasy that set a precedent for the genre. And 'I'll be…
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Sting, Joan Plowright, Denholm Elliott…
- Scripted by Dennis Potter, this cult psychodrama is set in the unstable household of Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliot, which is invaded by an…
Tenebrae (Unsane) (1982)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi
- Compelling Argento thriller, with a typically contorted plot design – about a crime writer, whose books stimulate copycat killings – used…
Dressed to Kill (1980)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen
- A slick video nasty involving a murderer, a prostitute, a psychiatrist, a bored housewife and her resourceful son. In reworking PSYCHO, De Palma…
Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
Frenzy (1972)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster…
- Hitchcock's last really great thriller, concerning a Cockney strangler plaguing the streets of London and setting up Jon Finch as the wrong man.…
Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)
- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain…
- A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics".
WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
Play Misty for Me (1971)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills…
- The film that inspired FATAL ATTRACTION stars Clint Eastwood as a late night radio talkhost whose female fan goes way over the line.