10 Criminally Underrated British Horror Films

5. A Lonely Place To Die

Melissa George is the Scream Queen of the "bargain basket" genre, but occasionally she is capable of picking a little gem of a project and delivering great work in it. This and Triangle are moments in which she's chosen wisely and shone brightly. The film follows a group of five mountaineers who, whilst hiking, discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness and become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the girl's kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety. A Lonely Place To Die is an accomplished cat-and-mouse thriller that moves like a bullet out of a gun and enters deftly into the horror genre along the way. Its subplot doesn't work but isn't present enough to derail the film as a whole, and there's some weaker characterisation and even weaker acting. But none of it distracts from the rapid pacing and brilliantly executed set-pieces lined up in quick succession of each other.