The bad horror movies are reviled almost as much as the good ones as people have taken the downright ridiculous, inept and usually cheaply-made into their hearts.

They are called guilty pleasures, that is, movies that are so stupid they have a life all their own; movies that are pretty rotten but still have their place of glory in a fans collection; movies that bask in how lousy they really are.

I'm sure you all have you're own list of guilty pleasures (and I'm sure a lot of them you wouldn't admit to...). So here for your enjoyment is a list of some of my favourite "so bad, it's good" horror films (in no particular order).

Redneck Zombies: Get Off My Land...

Whoo boy, how do we start this one? Well this 1987 wonder was filmed on video for a measly 5,000 (a figure its director Pericles Lewnes gave me) and was eventually picked-up by those sultans of sleaze at Troma.

This tender tale has a bunch of country bumpkins brewin' a batch of deadly shine in a radioactive barrel and ending up transforming into some hungry hungry zombies in search of human grits.

At first glance you may not have noticed the subtle humour within (such as the whole redneck stereotypes and, of course, the Tobacco Man). Heck at first glance you probably were wondering what the Hell you were watching. But this is one tripped out movie, I even had a friend comment that it would be perfect if watched on drugs (but I'll leave that to the Baked Potato crew). And of course those classic snippets of dialogue such as the "We Must Fight The N---ers" and "Get Off My Land...". And thanks to Troma we get to see all the glorious low-budget gore in their directors cut (and some of it is pretty nifty considering the budget).

Killer Nerd: Sounds Resonable...

Flash-in-the-pan MTV appearing Toby Radloff (who proclaims he's a real-life nerd) stars in this hilariously awful no-budgeter as a mama's boy nerd who has had enough taunting and decides to go on a murderous rampage.

Lots of hilarious moments in this one such as the entire flower shop scene, the cheap looking exploding head, the diaper wearing draino feeding and of course the dog scene (you have to have seen it to get it).

Followed by the dismal Bride Of Killer Nerd, this one is really really bad (trust me) but at the same time I basked in its rottenness and I do recommend that if you can find it get a group of friends who appreciate garbage horror movies together and you'll have a blast.

Crazy Fat Ethel II: Weight Watchers Beware!

This camcorder level production is a sequel to 1975's Criminally Insane (which is obvious to us since about half of this films 70 minute running time is clips from it) has that obese psychopath back and killing anyone who happens to either: a) piss her off or b) keep her away from food.

Hard to figure out what made me more giddy here it was either the flies in the soup part (yay raisins!), the "hey for the first three minutes of the movie let's show her polish off a chocolate pudding!" scene or the lame take-off of Texas Chain Saw Massacres's finale with Ethel twirlling around in the backyard with a knife screaming.

Sheer curiousity makes this worth seeing at least once.

Microwave Massacre: Gee Ethel You Taste Real Good!

Comedian Jackie Vernon (who?) stars in this tale of an average joe loser who gets fed up with his whiney wife and kills her and nukes her. Well see the guy gets a taste for human flesh and we'll be damned if he doesn't share his "lunch" with his pals at work. So in trot the dumb prostitutes who are killed and nuked. Dat dere's some good eatin'!

Seeing Vernon deliver some of the lines in this (such as the "gee Ethel" one from above) with a straight face makes it watchable right there, but I can't forget the foil-stuffed fridge with its obviously wrapped body parts and certainly not the fact the microwave in this is one beast of a machine.

Proof that men can only nuke a meal or BBQ... ;)

Blood Feast: Nice Brows Dude!

Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1962 cult classic redefined on-screen gore and while the gore here looks pretty lame for these days, I suppose it cut it back then. Too bad the story really sucks.

See there's this bushy browed Egyptian caterer who decides he wants to worship this goddess and the only way he can do that is kill nubile young girls. And since he's a caterer I'll give you one guess where their bodies end up.

The aforementioned bushy brows, the "ooo look I'm shoving an eyeball at the camera" scene and of course the immortal "garbage" line at the finale makes this a grinner.

We're glad Lewis decided to stop doing nudies and was corrupted into making a batch of really rotten horror films.

And Of Course...HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes!: From the great theme song right on down this intentional spoof is rippling with cheap laughs. Too bad the sequels are toned down and more polished cause this one's got a charm to it.

Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama: Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, nudity, violence, lame jokes, more nudity, a cheesy looking imp and a bowling alley flowing with blood... *sigh*

The Toxic Avenger: If you haven't seen it you are truly not a lover of the cult. Troma's best effort is loaded with laughs, gore and of course little plot. A rousing and charming drama of the human spirit...okay, maybe not.

And Still...A Small List Of Recommendations

Bloodsucking Freaks, Chopping Mall, Class Of Nuke 'Em High, Dead Time Stories, Rabid Grannies, Dr. Butcher, Demonic Toys, Girlfriend From Hell, Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher, Jack Frost, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Slaughterhouse, Terrorvision, Student Bodies...and many many more delightful films that won't help increase your brainpower but will help kill a boring day.

For more info on these flicks check the reviews section. I'd like to hear your guilty pleasures so mail me a list of a few of them with reasons and I'll post 'em.