Good idea for a thread Brandon! Some lesser known "horror" movies that I'm fond of (and please keep in mind that I love cheesy movies --- check out my favorite movies list for more evidence of this):

1) Fear No Evil - A movie that doesn't make much sense and is basically a bad rip off of The Omen, but you have to love it for the kiss between two guys in the showers in the locker room (and everyone around acts like this is totally normal and not one person yells "faggot!"), and the scene where the high school thug is given woman boobs and he runs away screaming like a little girl.

2) Eyes of Laura Mars - Since Brandon included a couple suspense type movies I will too. This is more of a psychological slasher movie, in that people are bumped off but it's not a slasher movie. I love it for the disco era fashion, especially the photo shoot scene where Faye Dunaway has the models pull each others' hair and the other photo shoot scene with a huge group of male and female models with "Let's All Chant" playing in the background.

3) The Legacy - Who can forget the death in the pool scene? Well, assuming you've seen it that is. Classic.

4) The Initiation - Great '80s cheese with co-eds getting knocked off one by one in a mall. Starring an almost-scream-queen-in-the-making Daphne Zuniga.

5) Killer Party - This movie appears to have been written as they were filming it, since it makes no linear sense, and the ending was probably filmed right after the success of the original Ghostbusters. Great movie if only for the '80s fashion disasters and the "OK slutbuckets!" line. And bad Bananarama-wannabe theme song.

6) Terror Train - I can't mention the reason why this movie is good because it will give away the ending for those who haven't seen it.

7) Midnight Offerings - "Burn, witch, burn!" A pre-The Craft witch-fight movie with Melissa Sue Anderson as the bad witch. Had some actually decent special effects for the day during the shop room scene at the high school.

8) When A Stranger Calls - This is another psychological suspense one, but "Did you check the children?" scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

9) Vamp - Grace Jones, humor, and vampires in strip clubs, what more could you axe for?

10) Sleepaway Camp (all three, but especially the first one) - Again, I can't mention why this one is so interesting because it would give away the ending for those who haven't seen it, but I can say that for a low-budget '80s slasher-flick-without-really-any-killing-scenes this movie is awesome. Bitchy girl with a ponytail on the side of her head, Heather has two daddies, macho guys wearing skimpy daisy dukes and half tops while playing a serious game of lesbian softball --- would you like some whine to go with your cheese?

11) Blade: Trinity - OK, I just love this movie because of Parker Posey, but the head vampire is h-o-t and it's got some other good vampires in it.

12) Cheerleader Camp - Another cheesefest. Stars Lucinda Dickey (Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo) and Leif Garrett (in a gratuitous semi-nude scene). I love how this cheerleader camp is like, in the middle of nowhere, and they have this direct-from-New York new wave band playing their dance for a bunch (about ten...) of cheerleaders and frat boys. Also great if you have revenge fantasies on the cheerleaders who made fun of you in high school.

13) Night of the Comet - Two valley girls battle zombies and evil scientists in a desolate LA. Who doesn't dream of being one of the only survivors and raiding the mall?

14) Chopping Mall - Stars Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet, see above) and Tony O'Dell (from the short-lived but awesome sci-fi series Otherworld, he's gay in real life) fighting against killer robots when they're accidentally trapped in a mall for the night. I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger hit when it was released.

15) Happy Birthday To Me - Another cheesy "who's the killer?" starring Melissa Sue Anderson (Midnight Offerings, above). A good one for the creative ways the people are killed, although the ending is really implausible.

16) Slumber Party Massacre - So bad it's good. One of those movies where you're like "She totally deserved to die for being so dumb..."

17) Class of 1984 - Sexy punks who do more than just slam dance.

18) Savage Streets - I think the scariest thing about this movie is Linda Blair's hair. It's huge, and it doesn't move the entire movie. More of a suspense/action film than a horror movie, but it has dark undertones that could fit with the Hallowe'en theme. And the line "That's right Red, it's your turn with the pussy now."

19) Summer of Fear - An early Wes Craven film. Also stars Linda Blair (see above). I just love these late-'70s made-for-TV-quality movies about witches!

20) Curse of the Black Widow - A woman who's also a black widow spider? Bad '70s special effects? Patty Duke? Yes!

I didn't mention The Fog and Fright Night since Brandon already mentioned them (I love The Fog because even when Adrienne Barbeau is getting chased she's still totally breathy like her radio voice, and Fright Night was a favorite of mine in high school because I was such a vampire-wannabe. Fright Night also had a majority-gay cast!). I also didn't mention Thirteen Women with Myrna Loy since it's not really a horror movie, but for the day it was definitely a precursor to the psychological slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s, and Myrna Loy looks incredible as the evil Basic Instinct-esque vixen. I didn't mention Underworld since it was very popular, and I love it because not only were the vampires drop-dead sexy (no pun intended) but the werewolves were totally hot as well, and I love the idea of a vampire vs. werewolf war. Can't wait for the sequel! Ditto for Lost Boys and The Shining, since they were popular movies. I wanted to make out with Kiefer Sutherland in Lost Boys, he was my vampire dream date back in the day. And Edward Scissorhands wasn't really horror, and it was a very well-known movie, but Johnny Depp looked so damn amazing in that movie. He was my total dream date after this movie erased any thoughts of vampires out of my head. Ditto for Depp in Sleepy Hollow. Mmm....

OMTS, was Clownhouse the one where those four or five people sneak back into the carnival and decide to sleep in the funhouse overnight? And then that crazy circus freak (literally...) chases them around wearing a Frankenstein mask? The movie itself wasn't that scary, but when they take that guy's mask off at the end and he's all blue and gross it freaked me out for weeks afterward. I haven't been near a carnival or state fair since...

I forgot about Pirhana, that was a good one. I remember being scared to swim in the neighbor's pool after seeing that on TV when I was a kid because I was scared that the pirhana were going to somehow get to a pool in WI through the water pipes. I kept wading around the shallow end of the pool ready to jump out if I saw the silver flash in the water... Didn't they make a sequel where the pirhana could fly or something?

Pirhana reminds me of a movie called Prophecy that my brother saw on SelecTV (remember that anyone? That's what people in the boonies had to have in 1980 because we couldn't get cable until the late '80s) about nuclear waste mutating some animal into a killer. I was too scared to watch it with him, and I've always been curious about it ever since. Anyone seen it? That and Blood Beach, my friend in 4th grade saw it and he said it was good, and I always wanted to see it, but I'm sure it's not very good by today's standards (it's got to be bad if they never show it on cable and I've been checking the listings for like two years now....)

I will have to check out some of the movies brian mentioned that I haven't seen. I almost didn't trust his judgment after the Blair Bitch 2 (ugh, Blair Bitch Project was the only movie I've seen in a theater where I axed for my money back; I rented 2 against my better judgment and that was the only movie I ever rented where I axed for my money back....), but Jeepers Creepers balances that out. I actually really liked both Jeepers Creepers movies. Some of the second one didn't make sense, but they were both fast-paced and very entertaining with some creepy and tense moments. This is a good thread, although my list of movies I have to see has gotten so much longer....