Q- What Are Your Favorite Obscure Subgenres of Horror?

A- I've always loved the cozy feeling of the breezy, studio b-movie action-horror-romance-comedy-buddy films of the early 1940s, particularly from Universal. This includes films like The Mummy's Hand, Night Monster, and my personal favorite, Horror Island.

Redneck Horror can be a lot of fun. There's the kind where the rednecks are the horror, like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Two Thousand Maniacs!, but I prefer when the rednecks fight the horror. Nightbeast, Galaxy Invader, Slither, and The Giant Gila Monster all feature a bunch of people running around wearing flannel, chewing tobacco, and loading up their shotguns to go out and find the monster.

The surf-horror genre has always been a fascination of mine as well. Films like The Beach Girls and The Monster, Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster, Revenge of the Creature, and The Horror of Party Beach all brought their monsters to the surf, and the result is something delightfully dumb. Most of them, particularly The Beach Girls and The Monster and The Horror of Party Beach, heavily capitalized on the beach-movie craze established by Frankie and Annette during the early 60s, so we get rocking tunes, fast cars, surf stock footage, and a monster all rolled into one!