10 Terrifying Horror Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
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Agreed , they’re enough movies in the horror genre that lists shouldn’t be hard to make without repeats
I know. it's gotten to the point they aren't just repeating stuff. they're three-peating so many things over and over. the long lists they make have the same movies repeated several times on the same list
This is the kind of thing we should be getting from Whatculture, instead of lists of the same 10 films over and over again.
What you mean you don't like hearing about the Mist or The Descent and Funny Games over and over again.
Were those at Cannes or something? I haven't seen any of those three in any lists anywhere. 🤔
@@alanmacpherson3225 Don't forget High Tension, or as they need to inform us every single fucking time, Switchblade Romance! It has the best/worst ending of all time! It is truly one of the most over/underrated gems/duds in the history of horror movies! The protagonist being the killer all along is so brilliant/confusing/predictable.
It's how Hereditary, the most overrated horror movie of all time, has to be on Every. Goddamn. List. Every. Time.
@@MKJNS7086 I have not seen it and never will due to the over exposure on these lists.
Lake Mungo truly is a hidden gem. It's an eerie, slow-burn ghost flick - and has some shocking moments. The main jump scare really caught me off guard first time I watched it and scare the crap out of me. Definitely one to watch if you prefer eerie/psychological horror over your typical Hollywood gore type horror....
The sadness was just wow. I haven’t felt the desire to turn away from something because of discomfort in a long time. Horribly good.
Yellowbrickroad was actually one of my first horror movies. I watched it with a friend around when it first came out. It's absolutely awful and I love it dearly.
It's so odd: I've seen it twice & after it finishes, I'm left with a sort of "meh" feeling, but a day or two later, its images are still disturbing me.
I love that movie! the constant tension is insane!
I really appreciate it
And it DOES have practical effects. The cheesy limb ripping off scene still sticks with me. So fake but so perfect when seen from a distance.
Love that movie even if I feel a little lost at the end.
Some more horror gems you might not have heard of for anyone who needs recommendations:
1. Pontypool 2008
2. Pandorum 2009
3. Here comes the devil (Ahi va el Diablo) 2012
4. Event Horizon 1997
5. Splinter 2008
6. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum 2018
7. The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988
8. The Wailing 2012
Event Horizon is soooo good. I loved Serpent and the rainbow when it came out, it's scares don't really hold up for me today, but still a good movie overall
The wailing, is that one an Asian film? If so, I may have seen it.
@@rositchi5889 yeah, The Wailing is a Korean film.
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00:20 -- 10 - YellowBrickRoad (2010) by Jesse Holland.
01:24 -- 09 - Images (1972) by Robert Altman.
02:48 -- 08 - The Field Guide To Evil (2018) anthology
04:01 -- 07 - The Sadness (2021) by Rob Jabbaz.
05:15 -- 06 - Shrooms (2007) by Paddy Breathnach.
06:10 -- 05 - Bad Hair (2020) by Justin Simien.
07:17 -- 04 - Salvage (2006) by the Crook Brothers.
08:17 -- 03 - Possum (2018) by Matthew Holness.
09:30 -- 02 - Daniel Isn't Real (2019) by Adam Egypt Mortimer.
10:31 -- 01 - Lake Mungo (2008) by Joel Anderson.
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Thank you! I hate when there's no list
So glad he mentioned Shrooms! It's such a wild ride. It's hammy, campy (pun intended) and just a blast. It's by no means 10/10 but as far as entertaining and rewatchable, it's a 12.
See, but that's why it is a 10 out of 10 for me
@@justalittlealien Yes. Just, yes. ^.^
Yes I saw it on the old horror channel, good film.
A surprising film I watched this Halloween was Creep on Netflix. I usually handle horror flicks pretty well, but the way this movie makes you feel so incredibly uncomfortable by not knowing what’s coming next is insane
The sequel is a rare equal worthy
@@juliabaum8832 haven’t gotten to the sequel yet but I’m very interested
I started that one and it literally made me so uncomfortable I couldn't finish it. I should give it another go.
Yesss, now I got some good horror movies to watch for this Halloween.
A few more obscure horror movies, which are La Meute /The Pact (2010), Of Unknown Origin (1983), Pulse (1988), not to be confused with the Japanese movie Pulse of the same name, Bad Dreams (1988) and 976 Evil (1988).
I audibly screamed with joy when Yellowbrick Road was mentioned. I love that movie so much.
I'm not really surprised to see Lake Mungo at number one. I'm Australian, I've seen it, and I loved it. It's sad that so few people outside of Australia have heard of the film, though. And yes, I was initially very convinced by the documentary style of the story as well.
I sort of am, as It's known of outside of Australia by found footage/docuhorror fans in droves, believe it or not. General horror fans I guesss not quite as much, there you're more likely to run in to people whose Australian horror go to is Wolf Creek (35mil AUD at box office/27.7mil USD at box, so it got a sizeable international viewing). Lake Mungo was backed by After Dark Horror and screened at HorrorFest 4, and has gotten a following from streaming services offering it up like amazon, AMC+ and Shudder. Now things like The Tunnel, that's where you really see limited knowledge regarding Australian horror imo because they were far less successful and Tunnel wasn't a film I was able to find a legal source for back when I saw it.
this is mostly just musings of course, because at the end of the day to *general* horror fans Lake Mungo and The Tunnel are probably equally as obscure, but WhatCulture has definitely named Mungo before. I'd love to see more AU horror being mentioned than just what I consider to now be fairly talked about- so if you have any suggestions, let me know!
Australia has some pretty great horror movies, Lake Mungo is NOT one of them. Extremely boring.
Lake Mungo is indeed incredible. Nerve shreddingly eerie, and by the conclusion, down right terrifying. It's a popularly held opinion among horror fans that it is among the scariest films ever.
Shrooms is one of my favourite films and massively underrated.
Salvage is on CZcams for free if you're interested. The final plot twist makes the low budget cheese worth it.
3 years ago I never would've seen any movies on a list like this. I've seen Salvage because of another whatculture horror list. I've been introduced to so many good horror movies since I started cherry picking them from these lists. Love it. Got plenty more on my list too from the lists and each new one tends to give me at least 1 or 2 more
Share the list in a pastebin or a Google Docs?
I love Salvage.
Weirdly enough, I've seen 7 of these, now I am interested in "Daniel isn't real". I am surprised someone finally mentioned "Salvage", that movie slipped unnoticed for so long. Try "Dying Breed" it's really really gory.
thank u for the rec, i love Leigh Whannell. i'll watch Dying Breed today.
@@dichromatism1681Watch out with Dying Breed, it's EXTREMELY gory and it's really not for everyone. It's kind of worse than Eden Lake.
i saw Lake Mungo a couple years after it came out and it blew me away. it uses so many horror tropes and weaves them together seamlessly. it starts out one direction & then ends in another completely different direction. and it uses the found footage camera use so deftly.
I'll just say it because I NEVER see it on What Horror lists....Vivarium, Everyone should see Vivarium....
A young couple plan to get a house in the suburbs...then as they're touring one, the real estate agent suddenly disappears, and they find that they're unable to find a way out of the suburbs, always coming back to the house they were touring. And then, an unknown entity starts sending them care packages...
Didn't that film have great critical reception? I mean, yes, it definitely needs to be seen by more people.
Watched it twice
I watched this just last week! It definitely takes you in a different place than you think it will.
It's on my Amazon watchlist.will get to it someday lol
I saw POSSUM soon after it came out - might actually have been here on YT! Very weird, and the puppet is definitely creepy.
I really liked Lake Mungo. The authenticity was great.
Lake mungo 10/10!
Definitely
Thank You for the List and Video 😀
Images is a FANTASTIC film, and it features the real book Susannah York actually wrote. It’s a mind bender of a film. Love that you included this!
Bad Hair was the only one I hadn't heard of before or seen and I think it's really cool, considering all of the hair horror I've seen has almost exclusively been east asian in origin. To see a western take on the concept feels very novel.
Yellow Brick Road is very polarizing; you'll either love or hate it. It's a slow burn, but attentive viewers will realize quite a bit happened after a certain point. It's been called frustrating, mainly because your ( many) questions are not answered. I love it for the fact it really got under my skin and I can't explain why.
I've seen YBR about 50 times. The way it starts out with an adventure/mystery then slowly morphs into doom and hopelessness is brilliant. Another overlooked great horror movie is Absentia. Can't forget 10 Cloverfield Lane.
@caco4now-mi7og hopelessness, that's exactly the feeling it evokes. It's almost a bleak cosmic horror it descends into.
@caco4now-mi7og that's a pretty good observation. Your comment about mental decay is a great description of what . That really hit me about halfway through during a certain characters death ( no spoilers, pretty sure you know which scene). That's when I knew they were doomed. It's impressive just how bleak the atmosphere of this movie is.
@caco4now-mi7og interesting, I had some of the same ideas occur to me about their loss of identity and being in a completely different reality. It was a subtle transition, too, which really helped build the dread and complete lack of hope. Shame it isn't more well known.
Big name celebrities make horror less scary to me most times. It makes it hard to immerse myself if I am staring at someone I have seen in 10 other movies and TV shows and, without immersion, I can't be scared.
Also, very unlikely to die in the first half of the movie, if they've paid millions for them and put them on all the posters.
"Sexual acts and eye sockets" is a phrase I hope to never hear again.
Possum is criminally underrated. People will eventually discover that one though. It's too effective and original to just fade away.
I’ve known about it but is it a horror? I may watch it eventually
@@NigelG59 Definitely horror.
@@user-dx1jb4zq9e I may give it a watch
@@user-dx1jb4zq9e I’m tempted
Yellowbrickroad is one of my favorite horror movies ever, and I'm so pleased to see it in one of your lists. It's so disturbing, and i continue to think about it at odd moments even years later.
I'm so glad to see that other ppl besides me love this movie. There are so many bad reviews, and my best friend hated it.
I don't know if any horror fan hasn't heard of Lake Mungo by now, since it's on EVERY FLIPPING LIST LIKE THIS.
I freaking loved Salvage. It came on one of those old $5 DVDs with a bunch of obscure horror movies that I bought in the late 2000s/early 2010s. I had dozens of them and Salvage is tied with Inside (2006) for my favorite movie out of all of them. It's by no means perfect, but the twist in the end is very original and made it stand out from the others in the time loop genre. Glad to see it finally getting some recognition.
I have seen Shrooms, Possum and Lake Mungo. They are all very creepy films. That scene in Lake Mungo with Alice's phone footage is enough to give anyone nightmares 😱
Lake Mungo huh, even though its often on your lists.
Thank you, Sean or other writer, for giving YELLOWBRICKROAD some attention. I love the "dangerous/unhealthy location" subgenre of cosmic horror, and love the slow burn of this film where the characters realize way to late that they have wandered into a place that will destroy them.
My view of the film is little colored by the discovery - well after watching and starting to rave about it - that the producer and actress who played the wife of the documentarian at the center of the story was a former member of my real-world extended social group. This lead to me having a pair of movies tied for 2nd-favorite horror film that starred the same actress, Anessa Ramsey.
"The Signal" is what YELLOWBRICKROAD shares 2nd-place with. Filmed before and release contemporaneously with Stephen King's "The Cell", Signal is also about a dangerous transmission that causes changes in the mind of those who hear it. In the case of the Signal, the effect is psychosis and hallucinations. The movie is unique for being a tryptic, with three directors taking segments of the overarching story in somewhat different directions. The first segment focuses on Ramsey's character's discovery that something has gone very wrong with everyone and trying to escape, the third is a more action-themed reprisal of that story focused on her lover's attempt to reunite with her and rescue her from her now-psychotic husband. The 2nd is, somehow, a great little black comedy that bridges the two perfectly.
Finally, as an aside for horror comic fans, the extreme comic universe of "The Crossed" will probably never see an official movie. That said, the director of Taiwan's "The Sadness" has stated in interviews that he was attempting to capture the horror of the first days of the outbreak from the comics in his film. Indeed, there would be little beyond deep-faking rashes onto the faces of the infected in the Sadness in order for fans to make it into a Crossed movie.
Didn't know if was intentional or not, but yeah. Def got a Crossed vibe from The Sadness.
@@ChA0s_AgeNt It was intentional, and has been stated as such by the director.
*Didn't* know; now I do.
I've been praising Salvage for years. The twist ending is awesome IMO
Agreed! That twist is big part of the reason why it's on my top 20 list
It's so great!! Just watched it yesterday. Love love love it!
So glad someone has given attention to Lake Mungo - I've watched it about six times and am still not tired of it. Thanks for the tips!
One horror movie that rocked my world that hardly no one I know has seen is a movie called 'Megan is Missing'. That movie, if you have kids, will haunt you for months.
oh god, that movie still haunts me and i have no kids. i can't watch it again it's so terrifying and sad.
My recommendation is a gem of a horror movie called High Tension... I highly recommend it 👍🏾
Great list. Anyone else spot René Auberjonois in "Images" that Altman film? Probably best know for his role as Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I remember him best from the memorable "Camera Obscura" episode of the Night Gallery television series (1971).
@@geraldmartin7703 I remember him from the old sitcom, “Benson” in the 80s, but he was also the original Father Mulcahy in “M*A*S*H”(1970). He was also in “Eyes Of Laura Mars”(1978), featuring the melodramatic stylings of Faye Dunaway. 🙄
Yeah, D movie actor
He was wonderful in this film. Images is so underrated, I recommend it to everyone.
@@davidpigeon572no way! He’s phenomenal.
Good list
I actually have Salvage on a double bill blu-ray, and I've loved it for years. The revelation at the end is terrific. Yeah, instead of Bad Hair, you should have listed EXTE: Hair Extensions.
Bad hair reminds me of that chapter in Uzumaki by Junji Ito... I think everyone who read it would know what I mean :3
Most Asia -Horror movies are underrated... There are a few that are mentioned sometimes (like Train to Busan) but it's very seldom... Acting might not be the best of best but the plots are often really fantastic. Like "The Wig" which also features hair...
YEAAAAH!! Daniel Isn't Real is one of my favorite movies. I'm so glad to see it get represented here
I'm an avid horror fan, I've seen A LOT of different horror movies. One night I watched The Sadness by myself. That is the only horror movie to ever both sufficiently scar me and make me want to puke. I never wanna see it again tbh. Pure torture porn
I transcribed Daniel Isn't Real for the translators working on it for a Korean film festival.
5:12 "...it still has yet to penetrate the mainstream."
I see what you did there, What Culture!
You cheeky bastards! 🤣❤
The sadness was dope
Another great unknown horror film is Pontypool (2008.) It's an excellent Canadian twist on a zombie film. I also love The Transfiguration (2016,) a film about a boy who believes he's a vampire. That one is a disturbing slow burn that gets under your skin in more ways than one.
Pontypool is one of my all-time favourites! Good choice.
Transfiguration is also well worth the watch.
I usually wind up shouting out _Pontypool_ on videos like this. Glad I'm not alone anymore. Brilliant film. It was only when the credits rolled, and I saw some actors listed as "voice" that I realized there were some characters that we never actually see once. And they feature in some of the creepiest sequences in that movie.
The sadness is my fave on this list, followed by possum.
Seen six out of the ten. Gonna check out the other four.
although it's not the best quality and is definitely a thriller/horror, I think more people should see We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018). What it lacks in plot it makes up for in absolutely incredible performances
For anyone that loves Folk Horror film The Vvitch you should definitely check out Hagazusa: A Heathen's Curse. Just as if not more freaky.
I used to have Shrooms on DVD. It's worth a watch.
I heard about Lake Mungo from What Culture Horror a couple years ago. Excellent film. Well worth the watch.
Possum was so good, and so HEAVY. It was a satisfying watch, but so emotionally draining that I needed to recover for a bit afterward.
Anyone who watched Possum, was your mind BLOWN and felt like you needed to watch this in a film crit class and see a therapist, message me with your opinion. I can't find anything out there about this film. Harris should have gotten nominated for an Oscar.
Sean Harris keeps an unimaginable level of terror going through this whole movie, letting us see the fear of a little boy with no one to protect him and knows monsters are very real. This movie crushed me, and at the same time excited me with all the layers of meaning.
I've only seen it once, i need to see it again when I'm mentally stable. But i really want another opinion. I think the marketing campaign did this movie a huge, stupid disservice.
“Possum” was one of the best movies I watched last year. I concur!
@@connielake1128 so I do need to watch it again, but I think there is an argument that COULD be made that he's told himself he's gone home to lie low. But everything there is dead. The time on the clocks never change, aside from the boys on the train, no other people. A TV that starts and stops on it's own with only one program or report. And of course, the end, he frees someone, and he, himself is outside in the over grown and somehow rotting back yard. The movies ends with him outside the house, but in the BACK YARD.
Do you think it is possible he's dead, or he's sustained and accident of some kind, and he's locked in, literally and relives it over and over? This is one interpretation and the most basic, then there are the moments we are watching, following this man's journey, and Sean Harris's ability to project the UTMOST, heart stopping terror-- the level where you lose control of bodily function, THE WAY A CHILD WOULD, it totally enthralled me.
I could watch him become, see him morphing and change into that 5 year old child, handed off by the courts to an evil monster he remains in their power so complete even as an adult, despite the very real likelihood his tormenter had long since died.
Yes, I must watch it again and refresh the memories. It is the best role I've seen him in. He really should have won awards for his performance. Could you tell when he was a man in the present, and when he was a man, being overwhelmed with memories of his childhood, and see him as a little boy in the most extreme throws of terror?
I had a dog I adopted, a rescue. She was so terrified of people, if I had her out on a walk, people always wanted to pet her, she was a beautiful Collie mix. If people came close she froze, and shut down-- gone. Quite literally catatonic with fear, unable to move. I would move my Lab toward people and release Molly, as we were always near the house and I HAD TO LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN or she'd refuse to leave the house. That was the kind of fear he projected through the whole movie, and it had to be draining and exhausting on him. Why can't I find any interview with Sean Harris's about Possum?? It drives me crazy!!!!
Ok, thanks for me get that off my chest.
The Sadness is f***ed up!!!!
Possum was an incredible ride but oh man if you aren't in a good place mentally you really ought to either avoid it until you're okay or bombard yourself with lighthearted comedy afterwards because it is extremely heavy and sad
I hope they do a list like this for horror games! Maybe they have, imma look it up.
One of these days you guys will discover From the Dark (2014). Easily the best vampire movie I've ever seen. Intense, creepy, suspenseful, and creative.
"The Sadness" is an adaptation of the comic "Crossed"... Which we need a true adaptation of.
I adore Lake Mungo, a brilliant film!! Also loved Possum!
In all the hundreds of horror films I've seen, (including Martyrs, a Serbian Film, Flowers of Flesh and Blood...) I would still set The Sadness as one of the most graphic and disturbing. They have basically made a film version of the 'Crossed' comic books, which should almost be impossible.
I loved Daniel Isn’t Real, it held my attention from start to finish.
Yes, Salvage! Best twist ending in all of horror! Better pay attention though so you know what's going on and don't have to google it and rewatch like I did. It'd be even better if I hadn't ruined it for myself!
The sadness is SICK omg. Horrifying. I thought most people have heard of it by now, but if you haven’t and like sick and twisted stuff, that’s the one 🙃
Im biffed he said no known name actors are in yellow brick road the main lady in all the images is Cassidy freeman. And it could be a culture difference, but I feel in the United States, the righteous gemstones is pretty popular and her character of amber is big fan favorite
I'm suprised you put Bad Hair on this list and not EXTE from 2007 a Japanese horror written & directed by Sion Sono & staring Chiaki Kuriyama of Kill Bill vol 1 fame Exte has a killer wig and vengeful spirit similar to Bad Hair
The first time I saw an ad on CZcams for Bad Hair, I was like.... isn't this basically EXTE with black women? I mean, there's a definite theme about how black women are discriminated against for having their natural hairstyles, but the director clearly "borrowed" a lot from EXTE.
Borrowed yeah
Finally something new😊
Shrooms is one of my most favourite horrors. I think it holds nostalgia for me
Possum is sooooo good!
Deadstream needs to be on this list and everyone should watch it. Low budget horror comedy? Or sneaky great scares and fabulous practical effects with a modern and creative story that has more to say then we think. DEADSTREAM!
Horror movies, I find underrated:
Isolation, 2005
Asylum Blackout/The Incident, 2011
Creep, 2004
The Canal, 2014
Darkness, 2002
Fragiles, 2005
The Devil’s Candy, 2015
Lake Mungo has been on several lists. Good movie, but give it a rest
I absolutely LOVE Images.
I’ve always loved Shrooms
I can't believe you followed up The Sadness with Shrooms. My heart breaks
Yes I have seen shrooms,on the old horror channel . Great film .
All I was convinced of was that these movies should remain in the “never seen” category. None of these previews/reviews really got me excited about any of them.
I love Yellowbrickroad!
I know it gets a lotta love, but I didn't think that highly of Lake Mungo. And I certainly don't think it's any hidden gem. Great list, though. Good choice with The Sadness. Gruesome. Thanks.
Put the list in the description or the comments
Exacuse Me? Weve All Seen Lake Mungo ty! Wtf
I haven't. I've never heard of it.
I keep wishing one of these lists would include Delivery: The Beast Within. Lame title but such a good movie! Terribly underrated but so chilling.
duuuuuuuuuude ive seen shrooms! i was like 13 at a friends house for a sleepover. total nostalgia trip!
thats the wildest pronunciation of Guillermo I've heard
I thought shrooms and lake mungo were good. Especially lake mungo, the twist ended is for sure something u won't see coming
Is this the dude from trekculture? .......and it never danwed on me that whatculture and trekculture would be linked...i'm goign to see myself out now
I had a horror mov iui e 12 pack with b as and c movies and salvage was one of the best ones on it. Cool concept
00:26 did that guy laugh for real when she fell down? 😭
I've seen a couple of these and they are worth the viewing. Lake Mungo is a good film with a real sad end twist but worth it and Shrooms while not the most high tech is actually good and with another twist end that you won't see coming.
Lake Mungo was heartbreaking, but does not deserve to be #1 on this list.
Everything on this list had me going. Was full in on watching a bunch of these. But when Lake Mungo is #1 on your list, I don't trust your taste.
...and Banshee Chapter
Everyone should watch “Everyone dies in the End” it’s a hilarious horror movie and hasn’t gotten the audience it deserves!
i'll definitely watch, i love Bill Oberst. thank u!
"Bad Hair" and the 2007 Japanese film "Exte" (Extensions) make a great double feature.
Damn,, I don't think I've heard of any of these...well, except Lake Mungo, which I really liked.
Salavge is one I have never seen, however I did just find the full movie here on yt.
I really like Daniel Isn't Real!
SHROOMS was on TV few times, possibly on horror chanel ;)
Ya I hated shrooms. And thought the twist was dumb