My mom had a strange fixation for horror films, and I saw far too many as a teenager. I no longer have a taste for the ‘graphic’ horror such as Saw and the like, but bring on the cheese.
Gremlins is considered the classic, but my personal favorite is still Critters.
What’s yours?
Flowers in the Attic, natch. IMHO far far better than the book. And Christy Swanson was quite the babe.
I mentioned This House Possessed in the 70s Horror thread.
I love, love, love Fright Night (1985), with the late Roddy McDowall. It doesn’t take itself seriously at all, but it certainly has its effective scary moments.
Yeah, this movie is definitely a classic as well. Ed was my favorite character, Charley’s friend who joins the dark side.
I looked up the actor who played him, Stephen Geoffreys, wondering what happened to him. His career definitely made a few interesting turns. Yikes.
I still have a lingering fondness for Razorback and The Boogens – best movie use for a yappy little dog. 
(I tried to link to The Boogens but couldn’t make it work.)
Night of the Creeps…brain slugs that turn you into zombies
The Stuff…space yogurt that turns you into a zombie
Return of the Living Dead…chemicals that turn you into zombies
…and Killer Clowns from Outer Space. No zombies in that one though.
Christine
golden oldies rock tunes still give me the creeps! 
Yeah … I’d heard about his filmography on a movie-related site a few months ago. I was going to include in my post how almost all of the principles in the cast of Fright Night have stayed pretty busy up to the present … some have made more movies (and in more genres) than others.
Gargoyle WB’s post reminded me about Night of the Comet – that was a lot of zombie fun, and featured 80s-hottie-in-the-Kristy-Swanson-class Catherine Mary Stewart.
Some inflating boobs though.
Oh dear.
I was going to nominame Fright Night too, but now all I can think about is Cock Pit.
I second Return of The Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead is genius.
Second runner up is Shocker.
Fright Night
Nightmare On Elm Street
and my favorite from the 80s…
Also, many people don’t know it, but the same guys who wrote, directed, and created the special effects for Killer Klowns From Outer Space also did the excellent puppet work in the funniest movie of 2004. Chiodo Bros. totally rock!
Did anybody else watch “Independence Day,” and think “They Stole That Scene From Killer Klowns” when the alien used Brent Spiner’s dead body as a ventriloquist’s dummy?
John Vernon did it better than Spiner, though.
I nominate an underappreciated work of cheesy genius: Of Unknown Origin (1983) I suppose the pitch nowadays would be “Robocop meets Mouse Hunt.” Peter Weller is a yuppie who discovers a rat problem in their new home. His wife goes away for a week as he tries to make some more repairs to the house and get rid of the rat. However, he steadily goes crazier and crazier trying to kill a rat that seems impervious to all forms of attack, until it finally ends with (spoiler in case anyone wants to watch it)
Weller in hand-to-hand combat with a four-foot long mutant monster rat, which he finally kills after destroying the entire building.
The nonchalant greeting he gives his wife when she comes home at the end is absolutely priceless.
Re-Animator
I love House, with William Katt playing an author/Vietnam vet who moves into his aunt’s house after she offs herself. This movie’s got everything. An old lady ghost in the attic telling him he’s gonna die, interdimensional portholes in various locales that suck little kids away, greebly mutant zombie things that keep moving after you chop them up and bury them in the backyard, a brief scene with a swordfish that’s really upset about being stuffed and mounted on the wall, and Richard Moll sporting the worst case of post-traumatic stress disorder ever. Basically, they crammed every horror-movie archetype possible into this movie, and somehow made it work. It’s fun to watch.
The BASKET CASE series
BRAIN DAMAGE (The Aylmer!!!)
THE TOXIC AVENGER
CLASS OF NUKE’EM HIGH
CAT PEOPLE
thank you, the advent of Home Video and USA Network!
The first one was NOT cheesy! In fact, I think it is one of the scariest movies of all time. It’s dated, sure, and the sequels were cheesy, yes. But what a concept!
I nominate Maximun Overdrive. Good and cheesy.