10 Best Under-The-Radar Horror Movies
3. Dark Skies
Dark Skies is a great alien movie starring Keri Russell and J.K. Simmons. It kind of ties the haunted house tropes with a possession storyline, and it's pretty darn affecting.
Dark Skies comes to you from the geniuses over at Blumhouse Productions, and serves as a fairly unique take on the alien genre. The plot revolves around The Barrett Family, who live in idyllic American suburbia. The mother is a real-estate agent, the dad is unemployed, and the two sons are... well, kids.
Strange things befall the family, like birds flying into the house and killing themselves. As the family start to discover mysterious beings watching over them as they sleep at night, they are desperate to find answers and a solution.
It's chilling stuff and Keri Russell gives a predictably captivating performance as the mother trying to hold everything together as it falls apart. Then there's the J.K. Simmons cameo that will give your goosebumps goosebumps.