12 Hidden Horror Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen

12. Phenomena

Suspiria helmer Dario Argento is equally renowned and frowned upon amongst horror fans for his beautifully realised, artful horror films and their less-than-gentle treatment of female bodies respectively.

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But as controversial as the Tenebre director is, there's no denying the filmmaker is a dark wizard with a camera, as epitomised by 1985's faintly ludicrous but undeniably effective Phenomena.

One of Argento’s best, this trippy horror is built on a brilliant early Jennifer Connelly performance with the young starlet playing a girl besieged by nightmares of a serial killer thanks to her pesky telekinesis. The star struggles to stop the murderer before they cause another elaborate, gory, meticulously filmed death sequence in a gory horror all the better for how over-the-top it is.

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