10 Horror Films That Aren't Talked About Enough

In this criminally underrated Spanish film, a young girl named Teresa enrolls in a French girls’ boarding school run by a cruel headmistress, who resides with her creepy-ass son, Luis. Luis doesn’t mingle with the girls at the school, at his mother’s insistence. Of course, this being a horror movie, the students begin mysteriously vanishing one by one. When the precise nature of the missing girls’ fates is finally revealed to the audience, it’s far more disturbing than anyone could’ve guessed.

Director Narciso Ibanez Serrador’s other significant horror film, Would You Kill a Child?, seems to be much better known and more widely referenced by horror lovers today. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also a cracking film, but The House That Screamed is far superior.

Unlike most entries on this list – that are indeed highly underappreciated, but aren’t exactly on the same level as the deserving classics of the genre – it is absolutely astonishing that this film hasn’t come to be regarded as one of the greats of the 1960s. After all, it closely follows the peak of the horror-thriller (Psycho; Peeping Tom; Les Diaboliques) – and this gem easily holds its own with the best of them.