10 Most Obscure And Underrated Slasher Horror Movies

Skip Schoolnick's Hide and Go Shriek, billed as "The Last Game You'll Ever Play", has faded into the ignominious mists of obscurity over time, but the status of the 1988 gory romp as an underrated fan favorite remains firmly intact to this day.

Featuring a disturbing cross-dressing killer, the slasher bonanza revolves around a group of rebellious teenagers partying in a gargantuan furniture superstore belonging to one of the group's fathers, before finding themselves inexplicably hunted by the aforementioned killer. With hindsight, one could feasibly argue that, based on the picture's obviously laughably low budget, the producers conveniently managed to gain access to a suitable location and just decided to run with it. It's a shaky way of going about things, but somehow the debutant director manages to make it work.

Hide and Go Shriek does not possess an original premise by any means. The plot happily falls into all the usual played-out tropes, but somehow manages to do so in a manner that is not tiresome in the slightest. The deaths featured within Hide and Go Shriek are all suitably gruesome - it's hard to pick a personal highlight between the mannequin arm through the stomach and the slapstick decapitation by elevator car - and the depravedly twisted nature of the final twist makes this a can't-look-away ninety minute stretch.

The frightful flick stands as one of the more notable examples of a slasher that unashamedly adopts quite literally every tired cliché possible but somehow remains an enjoyable trip to the movies.