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I'm an apologist for horror movies - I'll defend the genre against all comers, but I'm rarely frightened by them (and, to be frank, most of them aren't that good). I mostly agree with iSm that slasher movies (after the first Halloween) tend to suck. There were a handful of so-f'ed-up-that-they're-worth-it slashers from the 80s - Maniac springs to mind as one - but they deviate so far from the horror genre that they really ought not be considered in the same conversation.

I mentioned this as an aside earlier, but I can't stress enough that Quatermass and the Pit creeped the crap out of me.