10 Most Underrated Horror Movies Of The Decade

8. Absentia (2011)

Nothing sells horror like the simple, creepy idea of someone disappearing and then reappearing mysteriously after a while. Just look at the Bible. That's like the most famous book of all time or something.

Anyway, Absentia isn't a horror movie about Jesus, it's an underseen, independent chiller/thriller about a pregnant woman whose husband disappears and then disturbingly turns back up just as she's about to have him declared dead in absentia. It was made by Mike Flanagan, partly thanks to Kickstarter, well before he made a name for himself as one of the most talented scare-makers working today with the likes of Oculus, Hush and Gerald's Game.

It's unnerving and crucially very scary with an inventive, original story that's part body-snatchers and part boogeyman and it deserves a lot more of the positive attention Flanagan's later films received.