10 Hidden Gem Supernatural Horror Movies

These days, Mike Flanagan is famed for The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Doctor Sleep and, to a lesser extent, Oculus, Hush, Gerard's Game, and Ouija: Origin of Evil. Back before any of those projects, though, Flanagan wrote and directed the independent film Absentia; a film for which he took to Kickstarter to help get funded.

In Absentia, Courtney Bell's pregnant Tricia Riley is left stunned when her missing husband Daniel returns after a mysterious seven-year absence. As for the title of the film, this relates to Tricia finally getting to a point in her life where she has accepted her husband is likely dead, and so is preparing to publicly declare that so - an act known as pronouncing someone as being "dead in absentia".

When her ex-addict sister Callie (Katie Parker) comes to stay, Tricia has her sibling assist her in formalising Daniel's death certificate and help her to move house. As the moving date edges closer, troubled Tricia starts to have feverish nightmares and visions of her hubby that are put down to guilt.

It's only once when Tricia decides to go on a date with a local cop that a barefoot, bloody, painfully thin Daniel resurfaces. With a spooky tunnel, plenty of questions and even an eerie creature at its core, Absentia is totally worth hunting down.