Underrated Movies

[KittyHead]

What do you think are some of the most underrated horror movies?

Id have two that come to my mind right now:

Dead Silence. Im sure A LOT of people will disagree with me on this one. But I think it gave a breath of fresh air to the classic ghost story sub-genre. Sure, it was predictable and the acting was sub-par, but I thought it was genuinely creepy and aesthetically pleasing to watch.

Also, The Fearless Vampire Killers. Yes, its comedy/horror. But brilliantly done so. It totally achieves being completely hilarious and completely chilling at the same time. The score is also a plus. Whats more, is I think I get ultra chilled watching Sharon Tate look amazing and well, we all know what happened to her irl.

Anywho, what about yours? :hapwave:

[woodenheart]

Nightbreed...when the name Clive Barker is heard they think of Hellraiser.
Session 9....psychological and creepy
The Night Flyer....The reporter and the killer he is after are very much alike.

[Slayer]

Intruder and Street Trash

[UzumakiW]

Messiah of Evil

[FrighT MasteR]

Dead Silence. Im sure A LOT of people will disagree with me on this one. But I think it gave a breath of fresh air to the classic ghost story sub-genre. Sure, it was predictable and the acting was sub-par, but I thought it was genuinely creepy and aesthetically pleasing to watch.

:die:

[Metapher]

Redneck Zombies - One of my favorite zombie flicks, and Troma flicks.
Silver Bullet - One of the few werewolf movies that's close to being scary.
The Beast Must Die - Just a fun film.
Brainscan - Trickster kicks ass.
Cemetery of Terror - I thought it was a pretty fun mix of Evil Dead, Halloween and zombies.
Burial Ground - Just brilliant crapiness.
Graveyard Disturbance - Hey, it's bad, but it's really entertaining.
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle - Very cool movie that I rarely hear anything about.
Stephen King's The Shining - Better than the original. Yupp. Shut up.
The Ugly - Well made psychological film.

[3/6]

redneck zombies is fuckin sweet :rocker:

[koolmike]

The Hidden
Beneath Still Waters
Shock Waves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Nildtjq0k&feature=related
Horror Express
Visiting Hours

[Shreds_of_Flesh]

Triloquist :starefreak:

[woodenheart]

Dead Silence. Im sure A LOT of people will disagree with me on this one. But I think it gave a breath of fresh air to the classic ghost story sub-genre. Sure, it was predictable and the acting was sub-par, but I thought it was genuinely creepy and aesthetically pleasing to watch. :celebrate::celebrate::celebrate:

[KING]

THE STUFF!

[KING]

Triloquist :starefreak:

:rocker:

[steelba]

this thread again :myhead:

[BooBerry]

Shut up Steelba and just join in. You know you want too.

Anyways, I'm going to agree with Meta with Silver Bullet. And while it wasn't really horror (dark drama really) I always thought The Quiet was under rated. One of the better dark-side-of-suburbia flicks.

[FrighT MasteR]

Triloquist :starefreak:

Triloshit :smokin2:

[woodenheart]

Triloshit :smokin2:

Triloexcellence....:heart:

[grlxx]

Alot of the movies in my collection alone, define underrated..but here's a few

-The Woman in Black (great ghost story/performed play as well) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/)
-Beneath Still waters (one of my many favorite supernatural movies) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371572/)
-The House where evil Dwells (I don't care what others say...it's freakin brilliant!) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084096/)
-The Midnight Hour (best. movie. EVER. shown on Lifetime, halloween early 90's) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089593/)

[koolmike]

Alot of the movies in my collection alone, define underrated..but here's a few

-The Woman in Black (great ghost story/performed play as well) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/)
-Beneath Still waters (one of my many favorite supernatural movies) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371572/)
-The House where evil Dwells (I don't care what others say...it's freakin brilliant!) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084096/)
-The Midnight Hour (best. movie. EVER. shown on Lifetime, halloween early 90's) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089593/)

All good.

[Cataclysm]

this thread again :myhead:

Yep. It's not UHM unless we have one of these underrated/overrated threads show up atleast once a month.

[steelba]

Shut up Steelba and just join in. You know you want too.

stupid b00fairy :stone:

[Titanosaurus]

Both Psycho II and Psycho III.
Event Horizon.
William Girdler's Grizzly.:lol2:

[slimeisacharacter]

Event Horizon would be my choice. Known by most horror folks, but really under appreciated film in general.

[C.H.U.D.]

-Midnight (hillbilly satanists always rule!)
-The Deadly Spawn (gory alien monsters who will kick your ass)
-Killer Workout aka Aerobicide (hilariously "80's" slasher)
-The Rejuvenator (gooey experiements!)
-Cut & Run (more of a cannibal/jungle/exploitation)
-Blood Freak (pro-Jesus, anti-drug, turkey monster 70's flick)

...just a few lesser known titles that come to mind.

[Moar Brains]

Videodrome - Haven't heard many people talk about it, it's great.
Bug - William Friedkin + Psychological Thriller = Masterpiece.
Schramm - Really great psychological journey through a disturbed mind.
Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat - Intentionally funny this time. Hilarious.
Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - No-one talks about how great this movie is. Haha.

[LadyFrankenstein]

-Midnight (hillbilly satanists always rule!)
-The Deadly Spawn (gory alien monsters who will kick your ass)
-Killer Workout aka Aerobicide (hilariously "80's" slasher)
-The Rejuvenator (gooey experiements!)
-Cut & Run (more of a cannibal/jungle/exploitation)
-Blood Freak (pro-Jesus, anti-drug, turkey monster 70's flick)

...just a few lesser known titles that come to mind.

Ha! Cut and Run - Michael Berryman and Willie "Buddy" Aames ( Charles in Charge fan)
Never hear anyone mention this. Pretty good flick.
Killer Workout....I have that under the title Bitch Witch, was hoping they'd release it and clean up the picture.
Gotta love the Deadly Spawn, especially when that lady gets her face ripped off. And the kid gets my vote for toughest kid in ever in a movie. He stood there and watched his mom's severed head get devoured by monsters and took it like a man!

Was Midnight about the girl who gets molested by her step dad and runs away only to be caught by some weirdos? I know there are 2 movies w/ the same name, but that's the only one I can remember.

[Max Power]

Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - No-one talks about how great this movie is. Haha.

Already a classic to me. One of the very best horror movies of this decade. The only pure slashers I hold higher are Halloween '78 and Sleepaway Camp 1 +2 and Friday the 13th. I exclude NOES and Child's Play. Not slashers to me.

[C.H.U.D.]

Ha! Cut and Run - Michael Berryman and Willie "Buddy" Aames ( Charles in Charge fan)
Never hear anyone mention this. Pretty good flick.
Killer Workout....I have that under the title Bitch Witch, was hoping they'd release it and clean up the picture.
Gotta love the Deadly Spawn, especially when that lady gets her face ripped off. And the kid gets my vote for toughest kid in ever in a movie. He stood there and watched his mom's severed head get devoured by monsters and took it like a man!

Was Midnight about the girl who gets molested by her step dad and runs away only to be caught by some weirdos? I know there are 2 movies w/ the same name, but that's the only one I can remember.

Yeah, that's the same "Midnight" I was talking about. Cool flick, not for everybody though.

[levil666]

Event Horizon would be my choice. Known by most horror folks, but really under appreciated film in general.

Great point, incredibly Event Horizon is totally underrated. Freaky as hell too, literally. Frailty is another that is not paid enough recognition.

[LadyFrankenstein]

Great point, incredibly Event Horizon is totally underrated. Freaky as hell too, literally. Frailty is another that is not paid enough recognition.

"Where we are going, we don't need eyes to see". Used to be so scared when he turned around to face the camera after he said that.
Frailty was excellent, I don't hear much about that movie either which is strange.

Gotta agree with Leslie Vernon, that was one of the best slasher/ newer films I've seen in a long time.

And yes, I would also agree Midnight is not for everyone andwas pretty young when I saw it too! Really great list of movies in here!

[Moar Brains]

Already a classic to me. One of the very best horror movies of this decade. The only pure slashers I hold higher are Halloween '78 and Sleepaway Camp 1 +2 and Friday the 13th. I exclude NOES and Child's Play. Not slashers to me.

Haha, it was straight to DVD I believe right? Cause I got it in a special edition alongside 2 other movies.

[QueenofHorror]

Bloody New Year
Night of the Demons
Blood Massacre
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

[JerkyPuck]

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Fuck YEAH!

[Slayer]

Death Spa aka Witch Bitch!

[Joker]

Luther the Geek

[Lemmywinks]

Near Dark

[westerveld]

Final Destination 2 - the way they die, although a bit lame, is scary - the thought of death coming after you. Gave me a few nightmares

[levil666]

[B]Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - No-one talks about how great this movie is. Haha.

Very True... Here are some more

Shallow Ground
toolbox Murders
The Devil's Backbone
Sleepaway Camp (1,2 and3)
Leprechaun (1,2,3,Hood, and Back 2 da Hood)
The Tripper
Angel Heart
Jacob's Ladder
RSVP
Demons at the Door (entire soundtrack is ICP, where can you go wrong?)
Santa's Slay

[strtfghtr]

Santa's Slay is def under-rated, infact I'm watching it tonight with the GF's parents.

I don't know about the Leprechauns...they might be over rated.

I enjoyed the original Toolbox Murders but a lot of people disliked it.

[levil666]

I just enjoy the Leprechaun series, except for 4. I still can't get over the "alien death sentence." I am glad I'm not the only one to like Santa's Slay. The opening scene made me think it was going to be an A lister with Chris Kataan, James Caan and Fran Dresher. Oh how I laughed...

[Titanosaurus]

"Creature" (1985). Esentially, it's an "Alien" rip-off, but a damn fun one. It also had two things Alien didn't have-sex and over-the-top violence!

"Abberation" (1997). An odd ecological horror flick about two people terrorized by mutant geckos in a cabin during the winter. The only thing that killed the atmospheric, 80's vibe this movie had going on was the terrible CGI (the close-ups of the geckos were puppets.)

[LadyFrankenstein]

A really good and underrated Alien rip-off is Galaxy of Terror featuring appearances by a very young Sid Haig and Robert Englund. Cool death scenes!

[skybrick]

Halloween III
Session 9
Carnival of Souls
Cube
There is so many

[Nija]

Near Dark

Near Dark is fucking awesome(totally underrated)

[3/6]

blair witch project :rocker:

[grlxx]

Queen of Black magic

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078871/

i really love the gore.

[Sutter Kane]

Everyone sleeps on:

Dead End
Cube
Castle Freak

[blindloathing]

House and House 2!! Ha ha ha.

[pamela voorhees]

High Tension - one of the best, goreist films the year it came out
Dolls - Stuart gordon did just as good with this as Re-animator
PIECES - Could be the most underated flick ever!

[Dragonmanes]

My top picks:

Alice, Sweet Alice
A Blade in the Dark
The Being
Blood Diner
Blood Moon ***A Must See for all werewolf fans
Bug
Candyman 2
Castle Freak
The Child
Christmas Evil
Company of Wolves
Dagon
Dark Waters (must be plural, always plural)
Dead End
Deadly Spawn
Dust Devil
Evil Aliens
Parents
The Ferryman
Grapes of Death
Halloween 3
Hardware
Helter Skelter
Howling 6
The Last Horror Movie
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Living Dead Girl
Madman
Martin
Mulberry Street
Night of the Creeps
Night of the Werewolf
Opera
Pet Sematary 2
Plaga Zombie
The Prowler
Raw Meat
Re-Cycle
The Ruins
Satan's Little Helper
Stagefright
Stir of Echoes
Ted Bundy
Torso
Vamp
Waxwork
Who Can Kill a Child
Wrong Turn 2

Many of these may not be underrated but rather undermentioned

[Misfit]

THE STUFF!

:cooldude: you just cant get enough of the stuff!!!!!!!!

best 4.99 i ever spent, until someone robbed my house and stole it :cussing:

[Dragonmanes]

someone robbed your house and had enough sense to steal The Stuff? i think it was an inside job by someone that knows horror

[M3nt@l K00la!D]

Night of the Creeps and Twilight Zone the Movie

[Ichi_fan]

Yep. It's not UHM unless we have one of these underrated/overrated threads show up atleast once a month.

That's for sure. I can't wait for the "Show me your DVD Collection" thread again.

[steelba]

Night of the Creeps
That is not underrated almost everyone likes it :dsp:

[M3nt@l K00la!D]

get off my jockstrap already steelba. i know i hurt one of your buddies feelings. get over it

[steelba]

get off my jockstrap already steelba. i know i hurt one of your buddies feelings. get over it
I was just replying to your worthless post beetch :starefreak:

[grlxx]

after recently watching "The Lady in Black" again, i'm gonna have to add that to the list :thumbup3:

[Safito]

Behind The Mask
This was a very good movie.

[FrighT MasteR]

after recently watching "The Lady in Black" again, i'm gonna have to add that to the list :thumbup3:

:rockin:

[Casshole]

Very True... Here are some more

Shallow Ground
toolbox Murders
The Devil's Backbone
Sleepaway Camp (1,2 and3)
Leprechaun (1,2,3,Hood, and Back 2 da Hood)
The Tripper
Angel Heart
Jacob's Ladder
RSVP
Demons at the Door (entire soundtrack is ICP, where can you go wrong?)
Santa's Slay

*Just watched Shallow Ground this morning..Loved It. I'm glad SOMEBODY besides me thought about that one:hi5:

[Ashstrodamus]

Dead End
Prince of Darkness
The Mist
The Sadist
Poltergeist(definitely the best haunted house movie ever).
The Dungeon Master
Day of the Dead
Thinner

[Orion]

:rockin:
Near Dark

[3/6]

Dead End
Prince of Darkness
The Mist
The Sadist
Poltergeist(definitely the best haunted house movie ever).
The Dungeon Master
Day of the Dead
Thinner

day of the dead is underrated???

:scratch:

[steelba]

nope it's highly regarded.

[levil666]

Phantasm
Behind the Mask
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning

[Zodiac]

I don't know if you would consider this horror or not but I've always thought "The Mothman Prophecies" was quite an underrated film. It has some genuinely creepy moments and the score is very haunting IMO.

Another underrated film, also IMO, is Clownhouse. Yes I'm aware of the controversy surrounding but if you can get past that just enjoy the film itself it's actually pretty good.


Phantasm


I don't think anyone could say this is underrated at all. Phantasm is one of my all time favorites and from what I can tell most horror fans also hold it in pretty high regard. Booooooooooooooooooooy!

[Sith_dreamer]

Dead End and The Mist get my vote. Many people I know hated the Mist for one reason or another. Dead End was one of the first movies that used the "all a dream that foretold something" ending , and genuinely surprised me at the time.
Another that gets my vote is Halloween III. I'm sure this actually makes quite a few underrated lists, but the lack of Michael Myers really doesn't bother me, and the story keeps me entertained. Kinda wish to a point that we could have seen more of John Carpenter's idea to take the Halloween series in an antholoical direction.

[SickNick]

Halloween III.

[Ashstrodamus]

day of the dead is underrated???

:scratch:Well, I would think that you would agree that most people like NOTLD or Dawn better than Day, but not me.

[steelba]

that doesn't make it underrated :2far:

[steelba]

I thought the Howling 5 s a bit underrated as it's nowhere near as bad as its reputation.

[strtfghtr]

I think Day of the dead USED to be underrated, like say 10 years ago. In recent years it's regained some of the love that it rightfully deserves. When it was first released people labled it as shit and a huge disapointment to end Romero's "dead trilogy" at the time.

[Get Some]

not sure if this is underrated or not but Vampires with James Woods

[steelba]

yeah that is underrated :thumbup3:

[strtfghtr]

I never really got into Vampires, maybe i need to give it a 2nd chance

[steelba]

James W00ds = :cussing:

[Horror_Maniac88]

Dead next door

[FreddyFreakChica17]

As often as these threads show up, i cannot help but love them, because there is always a couple flicks that I haven't checked out or heard of yet. :nod:

[Horror_Maniac88]

Big Bad Wolf :thumbup:

[Get Some]

I never really got into Vampires, maybe i need to give it a 2nd chance



i personally love it and definitely suggest giving it a second chance

[Romero/Carpenter Fan]

Frogs (1972)

The Prowler

Night Of The Creeps

[666slipknotmaggot666]

dead silence

[Romero/Carpenter Fan]

April Fools Day (1986)...this is wild and original movie. Great twist!!

[TheBeautyInHorror]

There are so many underrated ones, but I'll list a few:

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) with Klaus Kinski... that alone should make you want to see it given the fact of how great of an actor he was, plus he was pretty much like a horror character in reality *lol*... I miss him :-(

Crawlspace: Another Kinski horror film that a lot of people don't even know about. It's both disturbingly scary and quite funny!

Joshua: Yes I know that this is pretty much a twin to The Omen, but what you get with this film more so, is the visualization of a slow physical and mental breakdown of a family caused by a charmingly quiet son... who's not the son of the devil.

The Sleepaway Camp Series: Some parts are quite interesting and are very different from it's slasher siblings. Plus I laughed my ass off of my friend's couch when I heard the part in Unhappy Campers when they took a stab at The Facts of Life!!!

[Horror_Maniac88]

Big Bad Wolf is a great werewolve movie the effects are awsome the kills are good and there is some funny scenes very good movie

[strtfghtr]

Big Bad Wolf is a great werewolve movie the effects are awsome the kills are good and there is some funny scenes very good movie

agreed!:nod:

[Z0mbieJ0e]

Rob Zombie's Halloween!

[steelba]

Rob Zombie's Halloween!
:stone:

[NicMonsteR]

Frontier(s)--i never hear anyone talk about this movie and it is one of my new favorite films, its in french but i think it is absolutley amazing

Undead--its kinda a cheesey evil dead kinda zombie movie with a twist(i like it some dont)

Society--no one ever talks about this movie granted it was more funny than horror but i thought it was good

Broken--you have to find the right one(theres like 3 movies named broken) its by dimension extreme and i think it is awesome. its like a low budget torture movie kinda. i love it

The Dark--it has sean beem(i think) in it he was in LOTR and its a kinda kool like ghost type story

Monster Man--ok first off (from anyone who has seen it) im gunna get shit for putting this on here but i love this movie its funny it has good effects in it and it has a monster truck and satanists i mean come on.

i will probably think of more later

[3/6]

Frontier(s)
:metalbang:

[grlxx]

Crawlspace: Another Kinski horror film that a lot of people don't even know about. It's both disturbingly scary and quite funny!


I actually watched this last week for the first time, it's hilarious and a cool film :thumbup3:

[steelba]

It's pretty good :nod:

[Romero/Carpenter Fan]

In The Mouth Of Madness

Wind Chill

The Dark

Prom Night 4

[SkullBat308]

In the Mouth of Madness
Society
Dead and Buried
Prince of Darkness
Severance
Session 9
Accion Mutante:metalbang: ....great band too

[Romero/Carpenter Fan]

Prince Of Darkness

Intruder

Frogs