10 Terrifying Horror Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen

10. YellowBrickRoad (2011)

A low-budget indie with enough tension to hold up a bridge, YellowBrickRoad hasn't travelled far in the 12 years since its release, but with some nuts-n-bolts filmmaking and a loose thematic concern with The Wizard of Oz, it pulls something unnervingly scary out of the bag.

The film follows the first official expedition to a small town where, in 1940, the entire populace walked off into the hills and never came back. Intent on finding answers and willing to go to any lengths to get them, the crew sent to do the job fall apart some five days into the wilderness, succumbing to a madness brought on by sinister, ever-present music.

YellowBrickRoad is not exactly Oscar-worthy, nor is it going to impress on a technical level, and yet while there's not a known name in the cast or a single special effect to be found throughout, it makes the most of what it's got. The performances are surprisingly immersive, and the sense of dread that seeps in during the first act sustains until the end, carried along on such a simple device that bigger, wealthier horror outfits are surely kicking themselves they didn't think of it first.