8 Underrated Thrillers You Need to Watch This Week

Everyone has seen the famous ones. These eight score high on movie.guru and get a lot less love. Clear your schedule.

Number one comes from a director critics love to roast, and it rules.

1. 8
   The Conjuring 2 (2016)7.3

   A haunted house movie where the best scene is Elvis.

   Patrick Wilson's Ed Warren sings Elvis to a terrified family, the warmest scene in any horror franchise. Then a nun painting ruins your sleep. $322.8 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.
2. 7
   Flight (2012)7.3

   The upside-down plane scene is only the warm-up.

   Denzel Washington's pilot pulls off an impossible landing, then the real thriller is him hiding a drinking problem from investigators. Metacritic 76, $161.8 million worldwide on a $31 million budget.
3. 6
   Insomnia (2002)7.4

   The forgotten Nolan movie, and Robin Williams is chilling in it.

   Al Pacino's detective can't sleep under the Alaskan midnight sun, and Robin Williams plays it quiet and cold. Critics rank it above 86% of notable movies. Audiences, just 56%.
4. 5
   El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)7.9

   The Breaking Bad epilogue that's secretly a great chase movie.

   Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman spends 122 minutes on the run, and every knock on the door feels like a jump scare. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, on a reported $6 million budget.
5. 4
   A Few Good Men (1992)7.9

   Your dad quotes it. You should actually watch it.

   Jack Nicholson's colonel barely has screen time and still flattens everyone. It's 138 minutes of arguing in rooms, and it plays like an action movie. Audiences rank it above 97% of notable movies.
6. 3
   The Untouchables (1987)8.2

   Old-school gangster movie that moves faster than most new ones.

   Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness takes on Robert De Niro's Al Capone, and Sean Connery walks off with the movie. A reported $25 million, and critics rank it above 80% of notable movies.
7. 2
   Zero Dark Thirty (2012)8.5

   The most gripping movie ever made about one woman's hunch.

   As Maya, a CIA analyst who won't let a single lead go, Jessica Chastain holds all 157 minutes together. Metacritic 95, critics above 95% of notable movies. Not an easy watch.
8. 1
   The Rock (1996)7.3

   Michael Bay made one great thriller, and this is it.

   Nicolas Cage's nervous chemical weapons nerd teams up with Sean Connery's Alcatraz escape artist, and Ed Harris gives the villain real depth. A CinemaScore, and audiences rank it above 87% of notable movies.

$657 says you finish number one and fall down an Alcatraz escape rabbit hole.

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