Subgenre Sampler
Serial Killers: 160 Films to Buy & Rent
- How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
- Dir. Luke Ricci
Feat. Dameon Clarke, Matther Gray Gubler, George Wyner…
- Droll satire of the motivational speaker circuit with serial killer Clarke leading his proteges through a ten step program on their way to becoming…
- Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
- Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
- MR 73 (The Last Deadly Mission) (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Philippe Nahon
- Rock solid policier stars Daniel Auteuil as a drunken, burnt–out cop whose shot at redemption comes in the form of a woman requiring protection…
- Surveillance (2008)
- Dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Feat. Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James…
- Divisive thriller following two FBI agents who must piece together three very different eyewitness accounts of a murder in a small town, in order to…
- Trick 'r Treat (Trick or Treat) (2008)
- Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin…
- Well–crafted horror that interweaves five spooky stories on the same Halloween night, subverting familiar urban legends into unexpected new…
- Untraceable (2008)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. Diane Lane, Billie Burke, Colin Hanks
- Contemporary cyber–thriller starring Diane Lane as an FBI agent tracking a serial killer who uses Internet hits to decide how quickly he will…
- Whitechapel (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton
- Atmospheric detective show focused on a group of detectives who are trying to track down a Jack The Ripper copycat.
Filmed entirely in the East…
- Anamorph (2007)
- Dir. Henry Miller
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Clea Duvall
- Moody thriller in which Willem Dafoe plays detective to a delusional psychopath who leaves each crime scene in the style of a painting…
- Death Proof (2007)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan…
- Tarantino, that great galloping genre geek, further indulges his jones for '70s B flicks and sexual kicks with his half of the 'Grindhouse' double…
- Disturbia (2007)
- Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Carrie-Anne Moss, Shia LaBeouf, David Morse…
- Highly suspenseful retake of Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW, about a high–school senior who suspects his neighbour is a notorious serial…