10 Recent Underrated Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

10. Overlord

Kicking off here with a movie that at least made a profit, but with a gross of $41 million from a $38 million budget, only by the slimmest of margins. Still, that's better than some here, as we'll see soon.

Overlord had a bigger budget than you might expect from a horror movie, and had they been able to keep costs down, that $41 million would look much rosier. The pitch for the film though, with American soldiers dropped in Nazi territory and encountering zombies, is perfectly simple and comes with bags of potential. While Overlord didn't fully capitalise on it, it wasn't a total disaster either, and deserves more credit than it got.

The Nazi zombies angle draws obvious Call Of Duty parallels, though it's far more measured and creepy than that. There are, however, plenty of video game similarities to be seen, with the absorbingly dark environments, well shot stealth sequences and over the top villainy feeling like something from a console triple A.

Like many horror films, characters sometimes act in strange ways to expedite the plot, and you have to just go with it on the Nazi zombies thing after Dead Snow. If you can manage that though, you'll probably enjoy Overlord.