matty-m00's - Rented List

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Asian horror cinema was already hitting strikes by the time the 1980s dawned and nowhere was more ahead of the curve than the then-British colony of Hong Kong. The city of neon lights and vibrant street life was no stranger to scary movies and Hex was perhaps the island's crowning achievement.

Released in 1980, and emerging from the legendary Shaw Bros Studios, whose knack for colourful landscapes and misty atmosphere remains legendary, 'Hex' tells a weird and wonderful story of witchcraft and wanton revenge! Directed by the late, great Kuei Chih-Hung, whose output also includes the frequently censored "nasty" 'The Killer Snakes' (1974), this formidable Eastern frightener has an abused woman caught in a strange mystery of manslaughter and macabre happenings. To say anything else would be to spoil one of the Orient's most influential terror titles, but rest assured that Hex has a few spooky surprises up its sleeve. Now gaining its worldwide, "Hex" may just be the greatest ghost story you have never seen!

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This darkly surreal gore-filled extravaganza delves into the murky world of master underground illusionist Montag the Magnificent (Crispin Glover). As part of his twisted late-night shows Montag selects female volunteers from his audience and seemingly dismembers them in front of a shocked crowd.

It's only later, when the volunteers dead bodies show up with the same wounds performed on stage, that suspicion falls on the magician. The investigators try to find out if it's just coincidence, or if it's the work of the world's most diabolically ingenious murderer...

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The Road is a thrilling and deeply moving tale of survival as a father and his young son journey across a barren, post apocalyptic America.

Respectfully adapted from Cormac McCarthy's hallowed novel, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.

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First there was an opportunity...then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.

They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

Legendary hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is forced out of retirement again by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome, where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.

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One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation. "Belladonna of Sadness" is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci with J.R.R. Tolkien influences.

The last film in the Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime and manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion), 'Belladonna' unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. A young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is assaulted by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran') who appears as a sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire. Extremely transgressive, 'Belladonna' is fueled by a mind-blowing Japanese psych rock soundtrack by noted avant-garde jazz composer Masahiko Satoh.

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A pitch black British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe , 'Prevenge' follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims.

Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood.

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Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with 'Alien: Covenant', a new chapter in the groundbreaking Alien franchise.

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

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Sophia (Catherine Walker) is grief-stricken and overwhelmed with sadness since the untimely death of her child.

In a desperate attempt to achieve some form of closure, she reaches out to Solomon (Steve Oram), an occultist with experience in an ancient invocation ritual that Sophia believes will allow her to make contact with her deceased child. Locked away in a remote country house, the pair undergo a long and arduous ritual, risking both their mental and physical safety as they attempt to access a world beyond their understanding. But when Solomon finds out that Sophia has not been truthful about her wish, a greater danger threatens them. In the dark, they find that they are no longer alone in the house. They are now in the world of real angels, and real demons.

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The Dakota Territories. 1879. A handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization.

Irish immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians. Experienced Indian fighters Will Parcher and John Clay form a posse and set out to rescue the kidnapped settlers, taking along a naïve teenager hoping to prove himself a man, an ex-slave looking for his place, and their ranch hand, Coffey. But as men vanish in the night, and horrific evidence accumulates with the dead and dying, the group discovers that their prey is far more terrifying than anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death.

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In this gooey gem of a monster-mash, Danny Lee plays a Hong Kong every-man who has been crippled and is down-on-his-luck - that is, until he learns of a spell that can turn him into a transformative and transmorphing pile of ferocious but malevolent mush.

Yes he is The Oily Maniac - and in this Cantonese predecessor to Troma's The Toxic Avenger, he is able to appear and re-appear at will, making if all the more tricky for his arch-enemies to dillute his delirious brilliance.

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Two young sisters are persuaded to model naked at a creepy old English manor house for a fashion shoot.

Sybil (Patricia Haines) is the sexually-charged owner of the modelling agency and part-time recruiter for a secret coven of witches devoted to orgiastic sex, lesbian excess and bloody sacrifice! Gerald Amberley (Neil Hallett) the owner of the manor house, sexually violates his new recruits, but is entranced by the sisters Christine (Ann Michelle) and Betty, played by Vicky Michelle of Allo! Allo! fame. Can cockney drug supplier Johnny (Keith L Buckley) save the sisters from the clutches of the evil witches' coven?

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Washed-up Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barratt) peaked with hit 1980s detective show Mindhorn, playing the titular Isle of Man sleuth with a robotic eye that allowed him to literally "see the truth".

Decades later, when a deranged Manx criminal demands Mindhorn as his nemesis, Thorncroft returns to the scene of his greatest triumphs for one last chance to reignite his glory days, professional credibility and even romance with former co-star/paramour Patricia Deville (Essie Davis).

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A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes (Ashley Judd) rents a room in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband (Harry Connick, Jr).

But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter (Michael Shannon), an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again. But Peter starts to imagine some horrific presence; he believes there is an infestation of bugs but Agnes can't see anything. As Peter's visions of bugs get more intense he starts to believe that they are crawling under his skin. Agnes will either have to convince Peter he is deluded or face up to the possibility that they may be the victims of a twisted government experiment.

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Bartleby is a highly stylised black comedy, a first-class satire on bureaucracy, alienated labour and divisions in modern society, and surrealist poem about lost humanity and compassion.

The Boss, (the deadpan David Paymer) hires Bartleby (Crispin Gover) to help with the filling and verification of claims. At first the model employee Bartleby begins to utter a simple but powerful refrain: 'I would prefer not to.' It is an issuance that wreaks havoc on the sane world of his workplace, a tiny institution founded on conformity and unmitigated compliance.