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The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Norway

At the Abigail premiere, Dan Stevens listed Norway among his four favorite vampire movies. “I just saw a great movie recently that I’d never heard of,” he told Letterboxd. “A Greek film called Norway, about a vampire who basically exists in the underground disco scene in ’80s Athens, and he can’t stop dancing ’cause he’s worried his heart will stop. And it’s lovely. It’s great.”

You won’t find a better endorsement than that, but allow me to elaborate. Imagine Only Lovers Left Alive meets What We Do in the Shadows by way of Yorgos Lanthimos. The...

Apart from the brief total phase, staring bare-eyed at a solar eclipse is a bad idea. That is a known fact. Less factual, however, is the notion that giving birth during an eclipse will have serious repercussions for the baby. Certain superstitious lore suggests imminent harm for anyone whose birthday falls on or near an eclipse. Ed Hunt’s 1981 film, Bloody Birthday, takes the concept further and shows how the celestial event creates unfeeling killers.

As taboo as it is to bump off children in cinema, having them be murderers is maybe more so. Which is why Bloody Birthday and its ilk are so well liked and sought after by horror fans. The genre has visited plenty of verboten topics over the years (some with more mileage than others), but killer kids somehow never lose their novelty or shock value. Now, other films featuring a similar pitch have a tendency to be serious and concerned,...

Nyarri Nyarri Morgan in Collisions (photo credit: Piers Mussared).

Following on from its simultaneous world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and the World Economic Forum in Davos, artist Lynette Wallworth.s Vr project Collisions is set to make its Australian debut at the Adelaide Film Festival.

Supported by the Adelaide Film Festival Fund, Collisions is a personal journey to the homeland of first contact indigenous elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian Pilbara desert.

Morgan's first contact with western culture came in the 1950s when he witnessed an atomic test. In Collisions, Morgan shares his story.

.Since its premiere at Davos in January this year we have been waiting for the moment we could show Collisons in Australia. It is a powerful parable for the country. Support from Adelaide Film Festival helped us make the work possible so I am tremendously happy we...