10 Horror Movies You Might Have Not Seen Before

By Elliot for Creepy

When it comes to horror movies, people tend to always recommend the same movies again and again. It's always difficult to find a movie you haven't seen yet that isn't a waste of time. We're here to help, though. Find below ten movies you absolutely have to watch. They are all unique and well made in their own way. It's time for a movie night with some quality horror movies that will be well worth watching. 

1. Let Us Prey (2014)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 86% | IMDB: 5.7

Production

Director: Brian O'Malley

Starring: Liam Cunningham

Synopsis

Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!

2. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 70% | IMDB: 5.6

Production

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, American Horror Story)

Starring: Addison Timlin

Synopsis

65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called 'moonlight murders' begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high school girl, with dark secrets of her own, may be the key to catching him.

3. Starry Eyes (2013)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 75% | IMDB: 6

Production

Directors: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer

Starring: Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller

Synopsis

A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

4. Honeymoon (2014)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 73% | IMDB: 5.7
Critics Consensus: "Smart, stylish, and nail-bitingly tense, Honeymoon packs more slow-building horror than many bigger-budget productions."

Production

Director: Leigh Janiak

Starring: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway

Synopsis

Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to a remote lake house for their honeymoon, where the promise of private romance awaits them. Paul is woken in the middle of the night by a shaft of light entering the cabin, which sets off his bedside alarm. Returning to bed, he finds it empty and, after an anxious period of search, discovers a naked Bea cold and disoriented in the woods. As she becomes more distant and her behaviour increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

5. The Loved Ones (2009)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 98% | IMDB: 6.7
Critics Consensus: "Successfully mixing the conventions of the teen and horror genres with a twist, Australian director Sean Byrne makes a striking directorial debut."

Production

Director: Sean Byrne

Starring: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, Jessica McNamee

Synopsis

After a classmate declines her invitation to the school dance, a teenager kidnaps him and makes him the guest of honor at her own twisted prom.

6. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 84% | IMDB: 6.2
Critics Consensus: "Its reach may exceed its grasp, but with Berberian Sound Studio, director Peter Strickland assembles a suitably twisted, creepy tribute to the Italian Giallo horror movies of the '70s that benefits from a strong central performance by Toby Jones."

Production

Director: Peter Strickland

Starring: Toby Jones

Synopsis

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

7.Creep (2015)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 96% | IMDB: 6.2
Critics Consensus: "A smart, odball take on found-footage horror, Creep is clever and well-acted enough to keep viewers on the edges of their seats."

Production

Director: Patrick Brice (The Overnight)

Starring: Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice

Synopsis

When a videographer answers an advert of the website Craigslist for a one-day job in a remote mountain town to video the last messages of a dying man. The job takes a strange turn when the last messages get darker and darker. The videographer continues to see the job through, but when it is time to leave he is unable to find his keys, and when he receives a strange phone call he finds his client is not at all what he initially seemed to be.

8.We Are What We Are (2013)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 86% | IMDB: 5.9
Critics Consensus: "A compelling story cleverly told, We Are What We Are quenches horror buffs' thirst for gore while serving up serious-minded filmmaking and solid acting."

Production

Director: Jim Mickle (Cold in July, Stake Land)

Starring: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner

Synopsis

The Parkers, a reclusive family who follow ancient customs, find their secret existence threatened as a torrential downpour moves into their area, forcing daughters Iris and Rose to assume responsibilities beyond those of a typical family.

9.A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 95% | IMDB: 7.0
Critics Consensus: "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night blends conventional elements into something brilliantly original -- and serves as a striking calling card for writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour."

Production

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour

Synopsis

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

10.Kill List (2011)


Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes: 76% | IMDB: 6.3
Critics Consensus: "Kill List is an expertly executed slow-burn crime thriller that thrives on tension before morphing into visceral horror."

Production

Director: Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, Sightseers, A Field in England)

Synopsis

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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