Horror Movies: Oddball Favorites

[crabapple]

What are your favorite oddball horror films? The ones that are a little strange, or maybe they're not exactly or entirely horror films but you like them anyway and they hold a special place in your heart.

One of my favorites is John Landis' SCHLOCK, which is mainly a wacky comedy about a monster. Most of the time it is played for laughs, but there are a couple of disturbing scenes in it. And yes, it is about a big hairy monkey.

[Disease]

Good question, what is a horror movie but isn't a horror movie...

Perhaps a lot of Troma that I like such as Surf Nazis must die... Tromeo and Juilet etc..

[Roderick Usher]

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26771

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Spider Baby

[Roderick Usher]

Spider Baby

which is also one the list
http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26771

[newb]

From my youth and NOT on "The LIST".

TROG

[crabapple]

Now now...it's shameful to try to whack a list with another list..."unsung" and "oddball" are two different things...

"Schlock," by the way, was directly inspired by "Trog"...Landis saw "Trog" and was so amazed at how bad it was that he set out to make a cheap movie that played the idea for laughs.

Here is another one...a short film called "Monkeyland Christmas." This film shows how chimpanzees have Christmas--they don't have it, actually, but the filmmakers dress up a chimp as Santa Claus and put a paper mask on his face to make him look like a human and film him climbing down a chimney into a livingroom. The chimp then slinks around the room dragging a bag of presents, not knowing what to do, and then starts hopping up and down in a monkey kind of way. Then it takes the paper mask off and drags it around the room.

Everyone I have shown this film to has been disturbed and frightened by it. You can buy it on DVD as part of the "Campy Christmas Curiosities" compilation, available at Amazon.


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[Yellow Jacket]

I think I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Jack Frost. It's bad, but in a good way. The sequel on the other hand is bad, in a bad way.

[Phalanx]

Microwave Massacre

[fortunato]

Microwave Massacre

!!!!!

you just made my day. i used to rent that from this weird, hole-in-the-wall video store in the town where i grew up that strangely enough had an incredible horror section. it was such an outrageous, hilarious movie. i'd love to find it again.

another really cheesy, oddball movie i used to rent was [b]the willies[/i]. pretty much as cheesy as it gets.

[crabapple]

I've heard about "The Willies." I would like to see that!

I was looking around used video stores a while back and came across a copy of "Spookies" for one dollar...I had seen this years before and it was just so awesome...80's dolts wandering around a haunted house and getting attacked by this, that and the other monster. Wonderful 80's cheese festival, dorky as hell.

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Night of the Bloody Apes.

[The Mothman]

I think I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Jack Frost. It's bad, but in a good way. The sequel on the other hand is bad, in a bad way.

same........

[Yellow Jacket]

I always have a soft spot for this really weird and crazy movie called Terror Toons. It is so cartoonishly cheesy, yet I love it. I think there might be something wrong with me.

[Marya Zaleska]

Spider Baby!

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Countess Marya

[fortunato]

I've heard about "The Willies." I would like to see that!

I was looking around used video stores a while back and came across a copy of "Spookies" for one dollar...I had seen this years before and it was just so awesome...80's dolts wandering around a haunted house and getting attacked by this, that and the other monster. Wonderful 80's cheese festival, dorky as hell.

the willies was great, haha. i was actually just at a horror convention a few weeks ago and found a dvd copy of it that someone had ripped off of a vhs. it's definitely worth checking out if you can find either format. spookies i don't remember hearing about but it sounds really awesome. i'll have to keep an eye out for it.

Spider Baby!


spiderbaby is definitely one of my favorites as well!

[_____V_____]

Oddball...hmm dunno if they qualify but I did love Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Reeker. Another which I had seen a long time back was called Zombies of the Stratosphere.

I know crabby's perfect oddball choice would be Monsturd. But then, I hated that movie.;)

[Marya Zaleska]

[QUOTE=_____V_____;650859]Oddball...hmm dunno if they qualify but I did love [i]Killer Klowns from Outer Space[:

I agree, This is really an oddball movie. But not only that I actually enjoyed it and watch it every now and then for fun.

Some of the clowns in it are terrifying looking so I think that this would qualify as a horor movie,



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Countess Marya

[GorePhobia]

I'd say Killer Klowns is definitely an oddball film. And very fun.

[Yellow Jacket]

Killer Klowns is definitely an oddball movie. And a lot of fun.

[fortunato]

I'd say Killer Klowns is definitely an oddball film. And very fun.

Killer Klowns is definitely an oddball movie. And a lot of fun.

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[GorePhobia]

I Am Sueing Yellow Jacket For Plagiarism!

[The Mothman]

prince of space is one of my favs.

[Yellow Jacket]

I Am Sueing Yellow Jacket For Plagiarism!

No, please don't. It was a simple mistake. I'll reword it quick.

I would classify Killer Klowns from Outer Space as an oddball movie. It has cotton candy cocoons, cheesy deaths, and killer klowns. That classifies Killer Klowns as an oddball film in my book. And I loved every minute of it!

That better? No. Damn it! Oh well. Take me away boys. *cops cuff me* Wait, I was kidding.

[monalisa]

The movie 'Trauma'. The scenes inside and outdoors of the cabin, I lived in that exact cabin about 1-2 years before it was filmed there. It was in Hudson Wisconsin. I remember hearing that they filmed a movie there and I bought it (the movie) a few years later when I could find it, and sure enough, that was the place.

The movie 'The Shuttered Room'. I remember watching it year after year in the Saturday afternoon horror/weird films they used to show on TV when I was a kid.

[Yellow Jacket]

The Toxic Avenger movies are definitely weird, but worth a watch.

[GorePhobia]

Ha ha ha ha It's all good YJ.

[Yellow Jacket]

Ha ha ha ha It's all good YJ.

Hahahaha. I know.

Night of the Demons is another oddball favorite of mine. It's the Halloween party from hell, and I'm glad I accepted the invitation. Damn, I like way too many oddball movies. Is that a bad thing?

[newb]

The movie 'The Shuttered Room'. I remember watching it year after year in the Saturday afternoon horror/weird films they used to show on TV when I was a kid.

That movie scared the shit out of me when I was but a wee boy....Gig Young and Carol Lynley [who I had a crush on ]:o

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Night of the Killer Apes

[fortunato]

haha, i just thought of another one.

it's called ratboy and it came out in 1986.
i rented it a couple times from an old video store in my hometown, mostly for hilarity's sake, as the movie is so cheesy it's completely laughable and ridiculous.
i really only remember a few key scenes, but i'd love to see it again.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0091827/

anybody else ever see this one?

[crabapple]

I've never seen Ratboy, but I would like to see that. I like that beautiful prosthetic makeup.

[fortunato]

I've never seen Ratboy, but I would like to see that. I like that beautiful prosthetic makeup.

haha, i hope you do get to see it someday, so you can see that they put that makeup to good use.......:o

[Doc Faustus]

Maniac (1934) is one I really enjoy.