Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Psycho: 32 Films to Rent on VHS
- White of the Eye (1987)
- Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. David Keith, Cathy Moriaty, Art Evans…
- Smartly executed, disturbing thriller set in a small Arizona town where a psychotic balances his marital problems with his penchant for homicide.
- Blackout (1985)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine
- Above–average stalker whodunit.
- Mean Season, The (1985)
- Dir. Phillip Borsos
Feat. Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan…
- Hack reporter Kurt Russell's propensity for a story edges him dangerously close to crazed psycho Richard Jordan.
- Phenomena (Creepers) (1984)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi
- Argento once again forgoes plot to concentrate on his strengths, namely stalk and slash set pieces and kinetic visuals staged like a bad dream. VHS…
- Love Butcher, The (1982)
- Dir. Mikel Angel, Donald M. Jones
Feat. Eric Stern
- Amusing sleaze/cheesefest about a retarded, sexually frustrated gardener (Eric Stern) who harbours a slick, womanizing alter–ego, not to…
- Massacre at Central High (1976)
- Dir. Renee Daalder
Feat. Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine
- An estranged new student uses his homicidal tendencies for the public good, by eliminating trouble–makers in imaginative ways. The superior…
- Twisted Nerve (1968)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills
- Hywel Bennett is suitably creepy as a homicidal youth who befriends a nubile Hayley Mills. Unnerving gothic melodrama is well served by Bernard…
- Sadist, The (1963)
- Dir. James Landis
Feat. Arch Hall Jr.
- Like BADLANDS, this little–known drive–in flick is based on the infamous Starkweather murder spree of the late 50s, and is never less…
- Homicidal (1961)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin
- Twisted, camp and expensively photographed B–movie follows the antics of a dispicable platinum blond, whose bouts of psychotic murder serve an…
- Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Dick Miller, Ed Nelson
- This has the twin distinction of being both a hilarious send–up of 'beat' culture and a ripping black comedy. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a…