10 Best Under-The-Radar Horror Movies

10. The Serpent & The Rainbow

Bill Pullman is a pretty famous actor, best known for his roles in Independence Day, Casper, Lake Placid, While You Were Sleeping, and Spaceballs. However, in 1988, Pullman teamed with famed horror director, Wes Craven, for the bizarre zombie movie you probably haven't seen, The Serpent & The Rainbow.

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Pullman stars as anthropologist Dennis Alan, who travels to Haiti to study a drug that is supposedly raising the dead. Not only is the location of a war-torn Haiti an interesting backdrop for a movie, but the twist of a radical drug seemingly causing the dead to rise adds a spin to the tired zombie genre.

Of course, all is not as it seems and there's some shady characters, a love interest, and even some voodoo; which all ties together to make a fun, albeit very odd, bow.

This under-the-radar horror flick truly is a deep cut from both Pullman and Craven's catalogue, especially considering it came after A Nightmare On Elm Street, but it's well worth a watch.

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