Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Psycho: 105 Films to Buy & Rent
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer…
- Wes Craven takes the townies–breakdown–in–the–desert chestnut to its logical extreme, where it turns out the hills also have…
Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
- Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
Feat. Roger Michael Watkins
- Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…
Deep Red (1976)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi
- David Hemmings plays a touring pianist in Rome who witnesses the slaying of a psychiatrist. Cat–and–mouse murder mystery is one of the…
Blue Sunshine (1975)
- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Zalman King
- Clinical, worthy Cronenberg–style horror about people who took an experimental strain of LSD in the 60's to emerge 10 years later as balding,…
Black Christmas (1974)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder…
- A superior precursor to psychological 'slasher' films like HALLOWEEN, this is set around a group of women in a sorority house, about to return home…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
Candy Snatchers, The (1973)
- Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza
- An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
Deranged (1973)
- Dir. Alan Ormsby
Feat. Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
- Closely modelled on the exploits of Ed Gein (whose notoriety also inspired PSYCHO and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), Roberts Blossom is…
Sisters (1973)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Margot Kidder
- This early De Palma film is a gripping account of a woman (Margot Kidder) who discovers her twin sister is a homicidal maniac. Features an…
Theatre of Blood (1973)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
- Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…