Name your favourite sub-genre of horror. Ex. Underwater Nazi Zombies.

Jeff O’Brien

Well underwater Nazi Zombies leaves Zombie Lake, Shockwaves and an excellent Robert R McCammon novel about a submarine full of nazi zombie gut munchers, name escapes me…

I’d have to say “rednecks with killer pigs”. Slaughterhouse, Pigs, maybe Razorback as well.

Mexico set horror is a close second - any South of the Border splatter gets my attention.

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

I don’t think I have one! I kind of just like what I like. Though I’d imagine that were there a plethora of high-quality sea/lake/swamp-monster movies, I’d pick those. Alas.

Curt - Groovy Age of Horror

Well, who doesn’t love underwater Nazi zombies?!? My favorite sub-genre by far, though, is the classic vampire/werewolf/Frankenstein Monster stuff, especially when they’re all thrown together for a mash-up.

Doug Nagy

Robots gone berserk!

Billy

Well I’m gonna have to go with the Deadly Critters movies. Things like Critters, Ghoulies, Gremlins etc. There’s just something creepy about a tiny creature that can mess you up.

Bill Cunningham - DISContent

I like horror that is old school - vampires, werewolves and the like - but with a twist. My werewolves are on the run from the law, my vampires are from the future and my zombie (yes, singular) is a hitman who can’t be killed.

Warren - 150 Days of Sodom

Woodland Berserker movies!! (Is anyone else gonna say this? yeah maybe…)

My favorite example from this genre is also the strangest, The Berserker (1987), about a Nordic warrior wearing skins in the woods of America (there is some far-fetched explanation) and killing of a group of 80’s teens. There is the classic, Don’t Go in the Woods (1982), that’s got a killer woodsman and a real high body count. Also, The Prey (1982), with the tagline: “It’s not human, and it’s got an axe!”, but IT IS human and IT IS a giant woodsman! Everyone hates The Prey by the way, so watch out for the recommendation of mine.

See also Just Before Dawn (1981) from director Jeff Lieberman and The Final Terror (1983) with a role by Daryl Hannah. A final must-see is the Memorial Valley Massacre (1988) with a killer cave man. I guess I’m probably missing stuff, point is that I like movies where the killer either lives in a cave or looks like he lives in a cave or is the missing link.

Don May, Jr. - Synapse

I’m a big fan of:

Demonically-possessed teenagers out for revenge films!

Stacie - Final Girl

Gah…you call this question simple? I’m having a tough time here. I think I’ll have to go with “Children Hate You!” movies as my favoritest of the favorites. I also love Animals Run Amok flicks, Puppets and/or Dolls Who Kill movies, Let’s Scheme and Kill/Scare Someone to Win Their Inheritence flicks, Evil Twin movies…I could go on. Less specifically, I love slashers and supernatural movies, particularly from the 70s. Oh! And zombie movies and….SEE?! I told you it wasn’t simple!

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

I would say that the “Jess Franco Filmography” is a subgenre-it doesn’t limit itself to a type of film, but holds together by the obsessions and quirks of the one and only Uncle Jess. You get spys, monsters, vampires, whores, musicals, caged femmes, mysteries and mad doctors all under one nifty umbrella… and more strip shows than you can swing a hardcover copy of OBSESSION at!

Gary Wintle

Werewolf Boobs.

Louis Fowler

Mexican vampires.

Socio-politically, being of Hispanic origin myself, I really enjoy seeing us on the big screen in roles other than as the wise, elderly maid or Vato Loco gangbanger. It’s good to see Mexicans take on a real role in horror, be it as the hero or villian. A lot of the times it seems like, in horror, unless we’re said gangsta getting killed, we are either a) completely ignored or b) white directors act as though it’s un-PC to create true Mexican horror characters, afraid that a large group of Mexicans will show up, outside their offices, protesting, Basic Instinct-style. Well, as a memebr of that community, I am loudly telling filmmakers: MORE BADASS HISPANIC HORROR CHARACTERS, GOOD OR BAD. But mostly bad–I’m still waiting for our own Jorge Voorjees or Frederico Krugero.

And when I say Mexican Vampires, I don’t mean any of the Euro-trash rip-offs of the 70s or even early 80s. I’m talking down and dirty, fuck you pendejo Mexican vampire motherfuckers–whether taking on a cadre of luchadors or George Clooney, I love it all. The best exampe of this is in, what I consider to be fully seminal, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. To me, that is a perfect vampire film. No fey, indeterminate-European-origin vampires here–every bloodsucker in this film will rip your Goddamn head off and then piss down your neck. They are true badasses. And c’mon–who woulnd’t want Salma Hayek as their queen?

Sadly, this is a pretty lonely sub-genre. As of late, we got…what…those two FDTD sequels, the kinda-vampire/kinda zombie flick ALL SOULS DAY that Anchor Bay released last year…Jesus, that’s kinda piss-poor guys. Let’s get on this shit, Hollywood, or, at the very least, straight-to-DVD filmmakers.

Dammit–it looks like I’m going to have to make my own.

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

I’ve been a softy for any ghost story set in a Haunted House. Anywhere else and I am not interested. It has to be a house and the bigger and older the better. THE OTHERS is a fine example of this.

Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage

The “Jeffery Combs falls into demented insanity” sub-genre. The wild eyed stares, the twitchiness, the crazy talk! Maybe not a real sub-genre, but if I see Jeffery Combs in the cast list, I know there’s a good chance it’s going to be good gory fun, and cheesed out to the max!

Thanks to all the cats who contributed to this week’s massive Roundtable. If you have your own ridiculously specific horror nook you call a favourite, let us know in the comments below. And make sure you check out the wares on the contributor’s own sites. What are you still reading this for? Get moving. You’ve got all weekend to read horror blogs, right?

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