10 More Perfect Horror Movies You've Never Heard Of

As far from a conventional horror movie as they come, Shinichiro Ueda's One Cut of the Dead is a Japanese zom-com that flexes, stretches and breaks just about every generic and filmic boundary using only a tight 90 minutes of your time and a £20,000 budget.

The movie sees a director and his crew face the rising dead in a remote abandoned facility that was apparently used for supernatural experiments during WWII. They must face off against zombies and each other, while attempting to capture the whole affair in a single take.

One Cut of the Dead uses the device of a film within a film to perfection, shooting on location with a director who will literally go to any length to bag the perfect scene. Everything is low budget -- especially the score -- and yet One Cut of the Dead is far more than the sum of its parts, rapidly settling into its own unique filmic vocabulary and having as much fun as it can with it.

Its constant pace and perfect comedy beats make One Cut of the Dead an easy watch, no matter how much shaky cam or amateur dramatics, and, without giving too much away, it manages to step well outside its own boundaries, turning its brilliant effects and acting on their head several times in an unexpectedly creative fashion.