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Director: Richard Stanley
Writer: Richard Stanley
Release Year: 1992

A psychotic mix of horror and western, South African style!

In the early 90s, South African director Richard Stanley was a young director with a short but promising career directing music videos and documentaries. After finishing his first feature length film, the horror and sci-fi hybrid “Hardware” in 1990, Stanley started working on his dream project: a horror film very loosely based on the Nhadiep, a Namibian mythical serial killer.

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Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Tom Holland
Release Year: 1983

Coming home is hard to do.

More than twenty years after the events of the first film, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is released from the asylum and returns to the Bates Motel. Lila Loomis (Vera Miles)—who apparently married her sister’s boyfriend Sam—objects to his release in the strongest possible terms, but Dr. Bill Raymond (Robert Loggia) assures her that Bates is restored to sanity. Others, including Norman himself, are not so sure….

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Director: Anthony Perkins
Writer: Charles Edward Pogue
Release Year: 1986

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

The film opens with novice nun Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid) accidentally causing the death of another nun in a scene swiped from Vertigo. She decides to leave the order and catches a ride with general-purpose sleazebag Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey). After being left alone on the road, she finds her way to an out-of-the-way motel run by an interesting man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)….

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Director: Ivan Nagy
Writer: Paul Hart-Wilden
Release Year: 1993

It’s All Fun and Games Until Ted Raimi Loses His Mind. . .and His Shirt

Dennis Skinner (Ted Raimi) is your average, everyday young man, but with a dark secret life. When he rents a room from a lonely housewife (Ricki Lake), he finds a trusting soul with whom he can feel safe. But a prostitute (Traci Lords) who knows Skinner’s secret is dead set on ending his path of destruction.

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