Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror: 1601 Films to Rent
No One Can Hear You (2001)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Kelly McGillis, Craig Parker, Barry Corbin…
- A serial–killing axe–fest set in the USA, but filmed in Auckland, New Zealand.
Over the top performances almost lend camp appeal to…
Others, The (2001)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes, Christopher Eccleston
- Ghostly tale in the classic tradition of Henry James, conjuring a spectral fog of unease from a gaunt mansion on the island of Jersey in 1945,…
Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Kumiko Aso, Koji Yakusho, Koyuki…
- A clandestine by–product of the post–RING phenomenon, this refined and wholly disconcerting tale of a supernatural internet pandemic…
Queen of the Damned (2001)
- Dir. Michael Rymer
Feat. Stuart Townsend, Lena Olin, Vincent Perez…
- Anne Rice’s literary vampire Lestat, last seen as Tom Cruise in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, (here Stuart Townsend) shrugs off a 200 year sleep to…
Requiem (2001)
- Dir. Hervé Renoh
Feat. Patrick Dell'Isola, Moussa Maaskri, Julie-Anne Roth
- Stylish French action horror in which four vicious convicts hole up in a remote Cistercian monastery. Terrorising the monks and a young woman who has…
Ring 2 (2001)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato
- Esteemable sequel to the 1998 original, this finds the supernaturally fatal videotape – the one that causes death, a week after watching it –…
Session 9 (2001)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Josh Lucas…
- A “haunted house” movie with a difference, this is an intense, thinking person’s spook session involving a team of tradesmen hired to clean up…
Shadow of the Wraith (Ikisudama) (2001)
- Dir. Toshiharu Ikeda
- Fitfully scary J–horror is set around a series of disconnected horrors in two halves: first, at a high school plagued by a creepy…
Shaft, The (Down) (2001)
- Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Naomi Watts, James Marshall, Ron Perlman…
- Wildly tongue–in–cheek remake of the dir.'s own THE LIFT, here with a New York City elevator going on a murderous rampage in its…
Sleepless (Non ho Sonno) (2001)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli
- A welcome return to his 'giallo' roots by dir. Argento, turning a tangled tango between a serial–killer and recently–retired detective…