The Relic ‘97 has a fun museum setting, There’s Nothing Out There ‘91 is an early attempt at meta horror that’s enjoyable, or you can never go wrong with Killer Klowns from Outer Space!
Detention. Either the 2011 one with Josh Hutcherson (frenetic horror comedy) or the 2010 one with David Carradine (they re-edited it after his death so his character wasn't strangled)
Did you do Shiraishi's Occult Forest yet?? It's great and not depressing at all! Besides that: Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell; Ultra Q: The Movie (1990, maybe more horror-adjacent but p good); I, Madman (fun time, novel); Monster Heaven (don't think there are subs but did not impact my enjoyment)
Lifeforce; The Stuff; Ghost Story: The House Where Butterflies Live (really well done made for TV Japanese joint, not a major work but liked it a lot); Human Lanterns (horror wuxia/kung fu, it's great); Encounters of the Spooky Kind (not scary but def fun);
I think I only have the tv version of Occult Forest, I'll have to check, but I do have it on my Plex so that's a definite weekend plan! Haven't seen most of these actually!
Ice Cream Man (1995) - me and my friends laughed our asses off watching it last halloween. Very silly movie about an ice cream man who abducts children.
The Faculty (1998) - equally cool and scary. A school gets invaded by alien parasites.
Dave Made a Maze has some forgettable writing (at least, that is to say I don't remember much of the characters) but the creativity of the set pieces absolutely makes up for it and blows me away. The set designers really had a lot of fun with the concept
There’s a group who makes horror comedies to support their local SPCA in Swift Current, SK. They have a pretty large catalog of indie features. “GOREphers” and “GOREphers 2” are a couple I seen and enjoy. “The Killer Balloon” also won awards. Currently DVD mail order only. https://linktr.ee/deadprairiesproductions
I'm tryin to think of something weird or silly I'd know of that you wouldn't and it's a big ol' blank. You could always rewatch Hausu and House 1 and 2 together for just the silliest fuckin time. OH! Have you ever seen CHUD 2: Bud the CHUD? That's some silly shit right there.
It's hard to choose a favorite part because it's so wonderful and weird. Talking to his Father via a bowl of cherries. And eating one of them as they talk.
Santos and the Nightclub. Junkyard fight. The Beach. The Atheist clown car. "I'm bi!"
Clue, Young Frankenstein, Paranorman, What We Do In The Shadows, Wendell & Wild, Return to Oz, the 2005 live-action Death Note trilogy from Japan, etc.
1408 wasn't depressing for me in theaters because there was a group of teens who screamed at every jump lol
If you can find it, Of Unknown Origin (also titled, apparently, Mad Teeth) was hilariously unhinged. Think horror version of Mouse Hunt starring pre-Robocop Peter Weller.
Have you seen "It's Alive' (1974)? Really fun film about a killer baby. There are 2 sequels, which I haven't seen, but #3 has Karen Black and Michael Moriarty, which sounds like a good time
Oh and this reminds me: Prophecy is depressing in a number of ways but has the goofiest kill in monster movie history (think of a sack race combined with a pillow fight)
Blood Freak: an anti-drug pro Jesus movie made for $3 about a vampire turkey narrated by a hella skeevy chain smoker who gets into an extended coughing fit right when he's talking about "not taking chemicals into your body," which is hella ironic.
Well, imagine everybody in the movie does not know how to act and does not know that they do not know how to act, and they do that 'scream shout" thing that people who don't know what acting is think that acting is.
The whole thing is like a high school DARE presentation got out of hand.
my partner and i watched and uh, semi ironically enjoyed The Howling II: My Sister Is a Werewolf on Tubi? it's an extremely stupid movie but it has Christopher Lee to spice things up! oh and there's also weird werewolf sex which eventually involves naked people with like fake hair on their bodies???
Not trashy, but: House (1977) Little Otik (2000), obviously you've seen Bad Taste, Braindead, Re-animator and The Toxic Avenger, but what about Society (1986)? Frankenhooker?
Antibirth! Hausu/House. The OG Uzumaki movie which is delightfully weird. Attack the Block. Thelma (heavier but ultimately uplifting). One Cut of the Dead. The Substance if you haven't seen it and want to go to the theater.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2326554/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
More comedy than horror. But still.
The Faculty (1998) - equally cool and scary. A school gets invaded by alien parasites.
Santos and the Nightclub. Junkyard fight. The Beach. The Atheist clown car. "I'm bi!"
Let's try with this one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027762/
All of Peter Jackson's early work
- Leviathan
- DeepStar Six
- Split Second
- Mimic 3: Sentinel (obvious pastiche)
- Ninja 3: The Domination (a pastiche of a horror classic)
in the "might be too heavy" category
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Isle of the Dead
- The Stone Tape
Clue, Young Frankenstein, Paranorman, What We Do In The Shadows, Wendell & Wild, Return to Oz, the 2005 live-action Death Note trilogy from Japan, etc.
1408 wasn't depressing for me in theaters because there was a group of teens who screamed at every jump lol
The Blob 1957.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Zero
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Severance
Idle Hands
it's not great but it's got Leslie Nielsen in drag
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirm
Any of the Evil Dead
Dead Alive
A teaser that's spoils nothing: What if yogurt... Was evil... And hungry!?!
The whole thing is like a high school DARE presentation got out of hand.
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf is also worth watching, just abysmal. So funny.