12 Underrated Recent Horror Movies You NEED To See

It's understandable that even obsessive horror fans have trouble keeping up with the constant deluge of releases within the genre at times.

After all, the traditionally low budget of horror movies means there's always a steady stream of films vying for the attention of genre lovers and casual filmgoers alike. As a result, often times a superb horror flick can end up falling through the cracks and viewers miss out on another great piece of genre filmmaking.

Particularly since the advent of streaming, it's nigh on impossible to keep up with all the releases across all platforms, which is why this list is here to spotlight some horrors from recent years which went under a lot of radars.

Some of the movies listed here are genre mash ups, intense thrillers which take a turn for the horrific late in the game, or dark fairy tales which toy with creepy supernatural themes.

But they're all horrors which didn't get the love they deserved upon their initial release, and films which deserve to be sought out both by hardened horror heads and anyone in search of an off the beaten path source of scares.

So get ready for more ghosts, eels, dream ghouls, cults, demons, goblin faeries, neo Nazis, and complex metaphors for gender as performance than any horror fan could get through in one marathon sitting.

Released in 2015, We Are Still Here was the first major film from future Mohawk helmer Ted Geoghegan, and the film served as a stylish calling card for the director.

A tense, strange, chilling ghost story meets siege movie, the flick follows a pair of grieving parents who move into a remote country house, only to encounter the unsettling presence of their dead son... or someone claiming to be his spirit, at least. Naturally the pair invite over their friend, a medium, to contact this ghostly presence... And all Hell quite literally breaks loose.

Twisty and inventive, this effort takes the story of two older-than-average horror protagonists and sprinkles it with devilish unexpected turns which, along with a stellar performance from scream queen Barbara Crampton, elevates the potentially tired haunted house premise.