10 More Underrated Horror Movies You Need To Watch
1. The Ritual
Taking on the classic horror movie cliches of 'something evil in the woods' is never a smart idea. Even more so something that comes for a group of ignorant, lost campers with no idea of what they're actually stumbling into, slowly getting picked off one by one as they continuously make terrible mistakes whilst panicked in the wilderness.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, The Ritual does all of this. But impressively, avoids getting derivative or weighed down with tropes by putting its own terrifying spin on Norse legend in the process.
Instead of simple witchery in the woods or a flesh eating monster left rule the abandoned forests, The Ritual has a completely unique creature at its core, with a whole new set of rules and appearances that make watching it a complete surprise as it transforms in its second half.
Combined with haunting flashbacks and the driving, strained force of a group of friends attempting to reconnect, and The Ritual is an emotional gut punch of a film that dresses up in cliches without ever actually being one itself.