1 Alien Raiders (2008)
Armed men seize a supermarket, but they’re not after money.
If you’re in the mood for a horror movie this Halloween, here are a few lesser known horror films that I’ve enjoyed.
Although none of them break into my list of top ten greatest movies of all time, they are all competently made and entertaining, IMO.
What lesser known horror movies would you recommend?
My top three from this list would be Slither, The Hidden, and Strange Darling.
2 Cronos (1993)
An elderly antiques dealer finds a golden, beetle-like device.
3 Braindead (aka Dead/Alive) (1992)
A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey at the zoo, and her decline forces him into increasingly desperate measures.
4 Dog Soldiers (2002)
British soldiers on a training exercise in the Scottish Highlands find themselves besieged by werewolves.
5 Drag Me to Hell (2009)
A loan officer who denies an old woman a mortgage extension finds herself cursed by a demonic force.
6 Dreamscape (1984)
A psychic joins a government program that lets people enter others’ dreams, and discovers it has a darker purpose.
7 The Faculty (1998)
Teachers at an Ohio high school start acting strangely. A band of plucky teens investigates.
8 Freaks (1932)
A trapeze artist plots to marry and murder a sideshow performer for his inheritance.
9 Ginger Snaps (2000)
Two death-obsessed sisters are outcasts in their suburb until one of them is bitten by a werewolf.
11 The Host (2006)
A monster from Seoul’s Han River snatches a man’s daughter, and his dysfunctional family fights to get her back.
12 House (1985)
A horror novelist moves into the house where his young son vanished, and the place starts confronting him with his past.
13 Near Dark (1987)
A young man bitten by a vampire drifter must travel with her nomadic, murderous family.
14 Night Watch (2004)
In modern Moscow, Light and Dark “Others” keep an ancient truce policed by the Night Watch.
15 Screamers (1995)
On a war-ravaged mining planet, survivors face self-replicating killer machines.
16 Silent Hill (2006)
A mother takes her adopted daughter to the fog-bound town of Silent Hill to cure her nightmares.
17 Slither (2006)
A meteor-borne parasite takes over a small town one body at a time.
18 Southbound (2015)
Five interlinked tales of travelers on a desert highway they can’t seem to leave.
19 Splinter (2008)
A couple and two criminals trapped in a gas station face a parasitic infection.
20 Strange Darling (2023)
A one-night stand becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase through the Oregon woods.
21 Green Room (2016)
A punk band takes a last-minute gig at a skinhead bar, then witnesses a murder backstage and cannot leave.
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