Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield…
- The zombie movie genre collides with distinctively British "lad humour" in this playful and wildly entertaining parody.
Centred around the…
Spider Forest (2004)
- Dir. Il-gon Song
Feat. Suh Jung, Woo-seong Kam
- A refined and non–linear 'K–horror' concerns an amnesiac filmmaker whose foggy memories of the recent past concern a vast wild forest, a…
Starship Troopers 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) (2004)
- Dir. Phil Tippett
Feat. Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch
- Sequel to Paul Verhoeven's satirical futuristic sci–fi, which achieves much of the same thing on a fraction of the budget. The plot this time…
Straight Into Darkness (2004)
- Dir. Jeff Burr
Feat. Ryan Francis, Scott MacDonald, Linda Thorson
- Grimy horror/war mishmash focused on two American soldiers on the run in Nazi–occupied France. Unapologetically violent, and made with a…
Tales from the Crapper (2004)
- Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Gabriel Friedman, Chad Ferrin
Feat. Julie Strain, Ron Jeremy, Trey Parker
- Definitively cr*ppy outcome for Troma (TOXIC AVENGER), created according to the 'Dog Pile 95 Doctrine of Digital Filmmaking', with two short…
They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004)
- Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…
- This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…
Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works.
'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
Village, The (2004)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody…
- A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
28 Days Later (2003)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson
- Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
Anatomie 2 (2003)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Competently staged sequel again set in a clinical German medical school, where a new student gradually uncovers a program of human experimentation…