Curated Underrated Horror Movies and Games

Farmer Vincent runs a roadside motel and sells smoked meats locals swear by. The production process is what makes this a horror film.

Marlene is a backpacker traveling alone who finds a cheap room to spend the night. What she finds in that room stays with her.

A couple surfaces from a scuba dive to find the boat gone. Nothing visible in any direction but open ocean.

Six friends go swimming off a yacht in open water and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat is right there. Nobody can climb back aboard, and a baby is alone on deck.

Young Michael Laemle suspects his parents' 1950s suburban normalcy is a cover for something much darker. The leftovers are the clue.

Run a PSX-style photo studio, restock supplies, photograph customers, print their orders. The unexpected events are the horror.

You stop at a remote roadside motel for the night. It's a short 70s and 80s slasher throwback, and it understands exactly what made those films work.

The original Sleepaway Camp's survivor returns to a summer camp setting where the killing picks up again.

Hauling a load of meat across Australia's empty highways, a chatty American trucker becomes convinced that the driver of a certain van is the killer the radio keeps talking about.

Libraries, conversations, small gestures. Nothing feels wrong at first, but calm instructions and careful preparation are building toward something.

Gary's Carpet Value: open the shop, flip the sign, keep things clean. People trust Gary, but there's been talk about what's really woven into those carpets.

Angela Baker barely speaks when she arrives at Camp Arawak with her cousin. Then campers start dying and the investigation circles back to the new arrivals.

A video game with an unusual hook reveals that the deaths inside it are happening to real people outside it.

Emma is a college student who stops at a late-night gas station. This is the first episode in a short horror anthology inspired by real events.

Three short horror stories. Your job is to figure out which ones actually happened.

Kat and Rose are left behind at Bramford Academy when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. Miles away, a young woman named Joan accepts a ride from a couple headed the same way.

Arkin breaks into a house to rob it and finds a family being held captive inside an elaborate network of traps by someone already inside with them.

Dr. Alan Feinstone resurfaces in a small town and sets up a new practice, trying to maintain the routine that holds his impulses in check.

A thirteen-year-old boy goes on a family trip to a remote cabin. What starts as an ordinary holiday takes a sharp turn toward something much darker.

Determined to catch a forest legend on camera, a young filmmaker leads three friends into the frozen woods on 11/11/11 and keeps the tape rolling long after the jokes give way to screams.