The Best Low-Budget Horror Movies
by Elliott Rainbow
(The South)
Mountaintop Motel Massacre. It's poorly made, badly acted and made on a lower budget than a Ed Wood move. 'Nuff said!
My Bloody Valentine (the original, not the remake). My favorite Canadian horror movie. Not that there are very many to pick from, eh?
Hell Night. Who can resist Linda Blair, Vince Van Patten, Peter Barton and a night of college initiation at a deserted, Gothic mansion? I can't!
Count Yorga, Vampire. Worth seeing just for the scene in which Count Yorga plays voyeur and spies on a couple getting it on in a VW bus. Gotta love the 70s!
Carnival of Souls. Probably the best low-budget horror film of all-time. Watch this one repeated times.
Don't Look In the Basement. Nurse Charlotte Beale will wish she had never accepted the job as psychiatric nurse at a remote loony bin.
The Tingler. William Castle and Vincent Price at their best. Still the only b&w horror film with a color insert of a true blood bath!
The Cannibal Girls. Future SCTV performers in a fun flick about three sisters that have a very strange diet, to say the least. This movie comes with audio cues so you can shield your eyes, if the gore makes you uncomfortable. But you know you want to watch!
