What’s in a name or Naked Zombie Apokolips

Horror is a genre blessed with awesome Film Titles. The 70’s were an especially ripe time for creative movie monikers. Exploitation Filmmakers always had to have some sort of hook to overcome their low budgets. Other than the trailer, a good title was the best way to entice a potential audience. The name alone of a movie like The Tool Box Murders is enough to conjure up images of bloods and guts.Here are just a few of my favorite Horror Movie titles. These aren’t necessarily all great movies (some are, some definitely are not) but they all have groovy names:

Children shouldn’t Play with Dead Things – A bloodless zombie flick directed by Bob Clark. He’d make better movies, but none would have as good a title.

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie – Classic Italian Zombie flick. A great title that’s also great advice

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter- ‘Nuff said

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – One of the greatest American movies ever made in any genre. A lot of Horror movies have “Massacre” in the title, but the best one still takes place in Texas

Die! Die! My Darling! - You gotta give it up for a title with three exclamation marks.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown – I have wanted to see this forever, although I hear the actual film isn’t all that good.

Two Thousand Maniacs – Slight exaggeration

Glen or Glenda – Not really horror, but features Bela Lugosi and directed by Ed Wood. Plus, how could I not include a movie about transvestites called Glen or Glenda?

I Dink your Blood – Classic tale of Hippies eating meat pies infested with rabies. Dirty hippies.

I Eat your Skin – Apparently there is little to no skin eating in this. Pity.