8 Underrated Horror Movies You Need to Watch This Week

Big movie.guru scores, small vote counts. Turn the lights off, lock the door, and stop rewatching the same slasher.

Number one isn't technically a zombie movie, and that fight starts now.

1. 8
   Scream (1996)7.4

   The smartest slasher ever made, and it knows it.

   Wes Craven built a slasher out of slasher rules, then had the characters mock them. Audiences rank it above 89% of notable movies. $173 million worldwide on a $14 to $15 million budget.
2. 7
   The Platform (2019)7.1

   A prison, a food elevator, and satire with teeth.

   Food drops level by level, and the people on top eat first. Subtle? No. Effective? Very. Critics rank it above 73% of notable movies, and it runs just 94 minutes.
3. 6
   A Quiet Place Part II (2020)7.9

   Sequels to perfect horror movies shouldn't work. This one does.

   John Krasinski opens on the day the invasion starts, and that cold open is a stunner. Cillian Murphy joins Emily Blunt for 97 minutes, and critics rank it above 78% of notable movies.
4. 5
   Shaun of the Dead (2004)8.9

   Best use of a vinyl collection in movie history.

   It made just $32.6 million worldwide, yet critics rank it above 85% of notable movies. Edgar Wright made a zombie movie about finally getting off the couch.
5. 4
   Train to Busan (2016)8.7

   America barely showed up, and America missed out.

   Just $2.7 million domestic, against $94.1 million worldwide. Critics rank it above 84% of notable movies. Every train car plays like a new level.
6. 3
   The Thing (1982)8.1

   Peak paranoia. Peak effects. It flopped anyway.

   John Carpenter's practical creature effects still beat most modern CGI, and the paranoia never lets up. It made $20.9 million worldwide, and Metacritic gave it a 57. Both numbers look silly now.
7. 2
   Halloween (1978)9.4

   You've seen the sequels. Watch the original.

   Michael Myers wears a cheap Captain Kirk mask painted white, and it's still the scariest face in horror. A 9.5 movie.guru score, the highest here, from only 345,381 IMDb votes.
8. 1
   28 Days Later (2002)8.3

   Scarier than anything else here, and it cost $8 million.

   Cillian Murphy wakes up in a hospital and walks out into a totally empty London. Danny Boyle's grainy camcorder look feels like evidence. 7.5 on IMDb from 558,084 votes.

$149.42 says your next train ride, you quietly count the exits.

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