Absentia (2011)

Prior to becoming one of the masters of horror of the new millennium with his hit series The Haunting of Hill House and the Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep (2019), writer/director Mike Flanagan worked in the world of low budget horror making films like the underrated and under-seen Absentia (2011). The story focuses on Tricia (Courtney Bell), a woman still trying to put her life back together after her husband Daniel (Morgan Peter Brown) disappeared without a trace seven years ago. With the courts put pressure on Tricia to declare her husband dead in Absentia (oooooo!), her sister Callie (Katie Parker) moves in with her sister to make sure that she isn't losing her mind. Almost immediately after moving in, Callie finds herself drawn to a tunnel on the edge of their property and begins falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories that lead her to believe that Daniel's and several other mysterious disappearances in the area could be linked to this very tunnel. With the promise of potentially getting Daniel back, Callie and Tricia must now face their fears and head into the tunnel, but whether or not they will come out alive is anyone's guess! While we would love to tell you that there's some sort of reason that the ladies will have to strip nude in order to go in the tunnel, this just isn't that kind of movie. We do get some nice pokies from Katie Parker who wears a tank top with no bra to explore the tunnel, but this is a film more focused on chills and thrills than it is on spills!