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I saw The Monkey recently, and I feel it fits the bill here a bit. It's weird, it's cheesy at times, it's got a very eclectic choice of scares and whatnot. It's not serious, at all. But it's also not at all a bad movie, it's got a very respectable 77 on the tomatometer, a source I used to trust implicitly, despite having gone to shit probably five or more years ago at this point.
I think that horror lets itself benefit from some cheese in a way that no other genre can benefit from, and in there we get the whole "bad movie" vibe sometimes. I'm not remotely a massive horror fan, because I've known some and my fandom doesn't hold a candle to theirs, but I enjoy the genre, and it's a very dense genre, with so many ways to tell what is ostensibly the same story: something to "scare" the viewer.