20 Most Underrated Horror Movies EVER

Though indifferently received by critics and audiences alike in 1976, Burnt Offerings is a stone cold banger, actually.

You've certainly heard the premise before, of a family moving into a big remote mansion only to soon enough begin experiencing Very Creepy Things, but Dan Curtis' film has a unique style and tonality that's very much its own.

Furthermore, Robert Marasco's original novel actually inspired Stephen King to write The Shining, so there's that.

Balanced precariously yet ultimately successful between campy pulp and controlled slow-burn, Burnt Offerings manages to be creepy without deigning to cheap blood-letting, it's a marvel to look at, and the performances from Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis are terrific.

Of all the films on this list, Burnt Offerings is the one that, above all others, perhaps deserves to finally graduate to full-on cult classic status, considering how it's spent an entire half-century waiting to get its fair due.