10 Best Under-The-Radar Horror Movies
5. Hush
How can you defend yourself from a predator breaking into your home when you're deaf? That's the premise of Hush, and it's genuinely horrifying.
The movie sees the hearing-impaired protagonist living alone in the woods, soon to be the victim of a masked killer. As she sits unaware on her couch, with the masked man tapping the window behind her, you can't help but feel the hairs raise on your arms and neck. It's one of the few horror movies in which you really root for the protagonist to beat the killer, which immediately makes the stakes infinitely higher than normal.
Speaking of whom, the bad guy here is not some freakish, unstoppable monster, he's just a normal man who wants to commit a horrible crime. And that is far scarier.
Hush is a devilishly smart house-invasion movie that pays homage to classics like Halloween while imbuing it with new life.