10 Horror Movies Hiding In Plain Sight

10. Upstream Color

Shane Carruth has directed two features during his surprisingly long film-making career. The first is the mind-melting time travel film Primer, a movie requiring a video game style guidebook to understand, and the second is the experimental drama Upstream Color.

The narrative follows two people trying to reclaim their lives after being previously kidnapped and violated by a mysterious man. It’s a beautiful movie about the human condition and what ties us together. Though, it wouldn’t be on this list if it didn’t have some horror in it.

There’s a completely unexpected moment early on where a woman attempts to remove a long worm-like parasite inside her body with a knife, the viewer watching it wiggle under her skin as she desperately tries to catch it. It's body horror at its purest. Cringe-worthy doesn’t even cover it.

That alone is enough to secure it a spot on this list, but what really helps it is the overall tone. Everything in Upstream Color feels off from the start. There’s this nagging feeling that something is wrong mixed under all its beauty.

The best part though? Carruth offers no answers. The lack of closure makes this oddly unsettling feeling stick with you long after the credits roll.