10 Underrated Horror Movies Currently Streaming On Netflix
2. Demonic
What's It About? A detective (Frank Grillo) and a psychologist (Maria Bello) investigate the deaths of five ghost-hunters who were killed at the notorious Livingstone House.
The story of the murdered group unfolds via flashback - but was this crime the work of the devil, or is one of the people involved responsible?
Why You Should Watch It: Most supernatural horror movies have only the central haunting - vengeful spirits, trapped souls, that sort of thing - as the main way of keeping you interested.
As a result... you're not really interested. You know that, 99 percent of the time, the good guys will discover the demon, discover said demon's motive, and get rid of them by the end of the movie. Tension exists only in the moment-to-moment scary scenes, and not in the story as a whole.
Demonic does something different here; as you'd expect, it too contains a central ghostly problem, but there's also a murder investigation that runs tangential with the story of the kids poking around the creepy old house.
So, in the present day, you're watching Detective Lewis and psychologist Klein inspect the crime scene and interview witnesses, and via flashback, you're shown what actually happened to the group, with both timelines culminating in a neat little twist.
It's hard to fathom why Demonic was criminally overlooked upon its release. With names like James Wan involved, you'd have expected a lot more interest - it's an engaging tale that plays with an established formula in a smart way.