Subgenre Sampler
Television > Horror: 67 Films to Buy & Rent
- It (Stephen King's It) (1990)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Tim Curry
- Stephen King's lengthy novel is adapted for the small screen here with a younger audience in mind. Tim Curry stands out as the nasty force behind the…
- Amazing Stories (TV Series) (Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories) (1985)
- Fantasy/supernatural series created by Steven Spielberg in the spirit of the TWILIGHT ZONE, featuring self–contained stories of the macabre and…
- Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) (1983-1988)
- This popular horror/fantasy anthology TV series from the 1980's features more misses than hits, but all are gloriously tacky relics of their time.…
- Darkroom (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. James Coburn
- James Coburn hosts this cultish NIGHT GALLERY spinoff, with weekly episodes presenting two or three shorts tales of the mysterious and macabre.
- Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors…
- The last gasp of the Hammer Horror franchise was this low–budget TV series. Combining some inventive plotting, gore and a little nudity with…
- Monster Squad (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Fred Grandy
- Short–lived kids show has wax museum figures Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein come to life to help young mortal Fred Grandy (Gopher from THE…
- Signalman, The (1976)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott
- Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'.
Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
- Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
- 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…
- Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972)
- Feat. Vikki Chambers
- A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…