10 lesser known yet scary horror films

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

The story is about the after effects of the 1939 civil war and a bloody orphanage run by a nasty head mistress and an evil caretaker. An explosion and the soldiers find that they're not the only one there.

A Japanese occult which managed to scare the hell out of me. The sisters' acting is so powerful, they literally draw you in the movie. Nothing melodramatic, pure fear. A haunting in their family causes more deaths.

A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them where Adrien Brody plays a wonderful role as the protagonist and Kiera Knightly was as charming as ever.

I thought The Shawshank Redemption was Tim Robbins' only good movie before I watched Jacob's Ladder. He's a Vietnam war survivor soldier in distress when he's attacked by some foul looking creatures in the subway and also gets a glimpse of his dead son.

If it's a Jack Nicholson movie, you'll expect some epic acting from the veteran star and yes he delivered a superb piece of drama. It's the story about a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

This time a South Korean beauty in which the actors perform hard hitting roles. When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge

A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film

A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.

Planet Terror and Death Proof, two superb feature films which are under rated gems of the horror genre.