10 More Perfect Horror Movies You've Never Heard Of

Is it a psychological horror? Is it a war movie? Is it a human drama? Well, it's kind of all three. Defying categorisation, Zana folds horror tropes and imagery into a stark portrayal of Kosovo life, while dissecting the fallout from the country's infamous late-nineties war, all building to a revelatory climax.

A decade after the war, Lume's (Adriana Matoshi) nightmares are haunted by a blood-soaked youngster, while in her waking life she suffers the personal and social retribution of struggling to conceive. Unable to live up to her husband and stepmother’s desires of a larger family, Lume is taken to snake oil healers who treat her infertility against her will. Afflicted by PTSD, her struggles build and hallucinations threaten to separate Lume from her reality altogether.

Zana has the tense family elements of the likes of Hereditary (2017), played against extended nightmare sequences, witch doctors and mysterious pregnancies, all of which ask us whether we want to write events off as social prejudice or embrace the presence and possibility of something more supernatural. Genre purists may be unsatisfied with the socio-political drama at the film's core, but its meditation on loss is uniquely dark and frequently terrifying, especially surrounded as it is by blood and ghosts.