10 Best Under-The-Radar Horror Movies
Diamonds shining amidst the riff-raff of masked slashers and eye-rolling poltergeists!
Horror movies have been around since the advent of film and somewhere along the way, studios realised you could make a scary flick for cheap and reap the benefits of teens and sadists looking for a quick thrill.
As such, we've been inundated with so many crappy horror movies that one could easily begin to believe the entire genre to be... a bit crappy.
Well that just isn't true. By God it isn't! Horror is alive and well, ironically, and amidst all the soulless cash-ins and maddeningly misguided missteps, there are more than a few hidden gems; you just gotta wipe some blood off of the diamond to see it!
These movies represent some of the best the genre has to offer. From idiosyncratic zombies to nosey neighbours, hair-raising aliens to Neo-Nazi nut-jobs, this list has all the horror and macabre your twisted mind could ever ask for!
10. The Serpent & The Rainbow
Bill Pullman is a pretty famous actor, best known for his roles in Independence Day, Casper, Lake Placid, While You Were Sleeping, and Spaceballs. However, in 1988, Pullman teamed with famed horror director, Wes Craven, for the bizarre zombie movie you probably haven't seen, The Serpent & The Rainbow.
Pullman stars as anthropologist Dennis Alan, who travels to Haiti to study a drug that is supposedly raising the dead. Not only is the location of a war-torn Haiti an interesting backdrop for a movie, but the twist of a radical drug seemingly causing the dead to rise adds a spin to the tired zombie genre.
Of course, all is not as it seems and there's some shady characters, a love interest, and even some voodoo; which all ties together to make a fun, albeit very odd, bow.
This under-the-radar horror flick truly is a deep cut from both Pullman and Craven's catalogue, especially considering it came after A Nightmare On Elm Street, but it's well worth a watch.