I love horror films and horror stories (which scare me FAR more) but I hate haunted houses and ghost trains. I too had to turn around and go out of the entrance of the Alton Towers haunted house when I was 12. The girl I was with came with me though, leading me with my head down and my eyes on the floor so I couldn't see anything. There were tiny children coming out of the other end laughing, but I scared myself silly in there. I'm also wary of enclosed spaces, especially in crowds, so not being able to see the exit may have been a part of it.

Anyway it's called a fertile imagination apparently, not being a wimp :)

"schlock horror" is quite a good word for it.

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"I Spit On Your Grave" is a classic.
"The Undertaker and His Pals"
"Voodoo Black Exorcist"
"Mondo Cane"
"Faces Of Death"
"The Cabinet Of Doktor Caligari"
"I Bury The Living"
"I Eat Your Skin"
"The Beast Of Yucca Flats"

A more recent one is "2001 Maniacs".
"House Of 1000 Corpses"
The "Saw" trilogy.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the remake, and "TCM: The Beginning" make for a good trilogy also.

I went to the cinema on Wednesday (I love having a job!) to see The Cottage. It's a British comedy/ horror and might never make it to the States, but if you see it out on DVD I recommend it.

I went to see it because Reece Shearsmith is in it, and I wasn't disappointed as he is the first and last thing you see on screen pretty much :yum:

It starts very slowly - I think the comedy is a little clunky and I would certainly have edited it down. But once the horror starts it is grim and darkly funny and all you could want from a funny horror. I watched some bits with both hands on my face - not over my eyes, just mouth open and shocked and laughing at their audacity.

Love them! 'The Shining' is the best!

I like "Fido". The cover looks incredibly low budget...but it's good. It's like edward scissor hands meets classic zombie film. Good stuff.

(just in case you wanted to rent it but didn't)

I went to see The Strangers last night. Disappointed. I like that it was a horror film which didn't rely on CGI, but it just descended too quickly in a chase - I hate it when that happens. Lazy, lazy film makers.

Also, I was waiting for the phone call at the beginning to be explained. What? Who was Jordan? She never appeared in the film...? Anyway, I just never really engaged with the film. I didn't care enough about the characters. Shame.

Saw a trailer for Mirrors, looked amazing. Read a couple of reviews this morning, sigh. Wouldn't you know, there's a horror film made specifically about one of my top personal creep outs (even the trailer scared me) and it's rubbish. Might go see it anyway, depends on where I live when it comes out.

I was hoping The Strangers would be one of those rare actually scary movies...but I didn't hold out much hope. Every so often a gripper comes around, but usually it's not scary at all. Or just gory, which is silly.

A long long time ago the Abominable Dr. Phibes films were my favorites. Mostly because we saw them at the Drive-In and I LOVED going to the drive-in when I was a kid.

I can still remember some of the ingenious ways he went about killing people.

I saw John Carpenter's The Thing when I was a kid, and it freaked me out.

If you want a laugh a minute, watch John Carpenter's The Fog.

Tommy Wallace: She's crazy. There's no fog bank out there.
[other men talk]
Tommy Wallace: There's no fog bank out there.
[more talk]
Tommy Wallace: There's no fog bank out there.
[after a moment, fog begins to appear]
Tommy Wallace: Hey, there's a fog bank out there.
Al Williams: All right, I'm drunk enough. Let's go back

It's seriously supposed to be scary, and actually got decent reviews...but looking back at it all these years later it's pretty darn funny.

I thought Rocky Horror was pretty good....oh, wait.

My fav is "Them" and all those 1950's ones with a nuclear theme.