CREDIT: TROMA STUDIOS
Who thought it would be possible to grade a movie lower than C? Low-budget, Z-grade movie Redneck Zombies is a work of art to behold.

Have you run your Halloween staples ragged? Poltergeist or The Shining are scary, sure, but there’s only so many times you can digest the same without asking for more. If you’re willing to sacrifice quality for entertainment value, the wonderful world of B-grade movie horrors can give you more laughs than chills for the season. You’ll likely spot these classics at your local thrift shop’s VHS bin.

Waxworks (1988)

Sure we already had a wax-museum- themed horror film with the Vincent Price scare masterpiece House of Wax (1958), but Waxworks was a lot less ‘murder people and use their corpses to repopulate a wax display’ and more Night at the Museum sans Ben Stiller plus more ‘80s perms. It’s corny, hilarious and has John Rhys-Davies (Sallah from Indiana Jones) as a werewolf display come to life. What more could you ask for? Well if you really do want more, the saga continues with Waxworks II.

Critters (1986)

Despite the insistence of the filmmakers, Critters has still been slapped with the reputation of being a rip-off of Gremlins, what you rented at Blockbuster when they were fresh out of tapes for The New Batch. The movie (and its three sequels) are actually pretty different from Gremlins (choosing “aliens from outer-space,” instead of questionable Chinatown myth as an origin story), with their scuzzy little crawlies remaining grotesque throughout.

Leprechaun (1993)

Probably most famous for starring a not-yet-famous Jennifer Aniston whom we’re all glad really turned around. Unfortunately, we can’t quite say the same for little person actor Warwick Davis (Wickett the Ewok from The Empire Strikes Back) who stars as the murderous leprechaun for not just this movie, but for all five increasingly bad sequels. Whether or not the idea of an unusual monster is something you’d like in a horror movie, the sheer stupidity of a leprechaun serial killer will keep you coming back.

Redneck Zombies (1988)

Troma Studios, who brought you delightful low-budget classics like The Toxic Avenger and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Cannibal! The Musical, gives you its lowest- budget Z-movie (literally) with Redneck Zombies. Redefining direct- to-video by being shot entirely on actual videotape, the idiot plot involves idiot rednecks drinking “highly toxic experimental chemical warfare nuclear waste” (did I mention they brought on several scientific committee members as fact-checkers?), turning into zombies, and generally wrecking havoc among select groups of amoral teenage ne’er-do-wells, like any other good horror-comedy.