what's your favorite b movie?

[hitokiri_]

hehe.

just for the hell of it.

journey to the top of the world for me

[Motormouse]

Dude, you can't possibly have a favorite b-movie, there are too many of quality cheese, to have just one, with that in mind, my top 5 short list in no particular order are:

THEM

Valley Of The Gwangi

Son Of Godzilla

The Day The Earth Stood Still

When Worlds Collide


*Honorable mention for the not-really-a-b-movie, Tremors

[Karl H]

invaders from mars was a classic for me...

[Stranger With Candy]

What is a B-Movie?

[Motormouse]

What is a B-Movie?

The term B movie originally referred to a motion picture made on a low or modest budget and intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continues to be used in a broader sense, referring to any low-budget, commercial motion picture meant neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie

[Ontir]

What is a "B Movie?" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie\)

Invasion of the Bee Girls (http://imdb.com/title/tt0070222/) I first heard about it, when it made Siskel & Ebert's "Guilty Pleasures" list. I've only ever seen the R-rated cut, but have sought out the unexpurgated version for years.

[marshal99]

The most famous ones of all - the evil dead trilogy. :D

[Sean Walsh]

The Day The Earth Stood Still

When Worlds Collide

*Honorable mention for the not-really-a-b-movie, Tremors

Aw man..........When Worlds Collide. I really regret selling that DVD when I was unemployed...

Would The Day The Earth Stood Still count as a B-movie? Modern day film folks have basically placed classic Hollywood film status on it, so that seems to cement it as an important film.

And while I thought Tremors was.........ok, I really miss that schlocky Sci-Fi TV series a couple years back. Fun fact: when I met Michael Gross at a convention last year, I didn't even bother with the Family Ties talk (too young for that) - it was Tremors, Tremors, Tremors. And gladly it was a series he enjoyed doing, so he appreciated my regard for it.

[JohnPopa]

Herschell Gordon Lewis's classic 2000 Maniacs.

(And the direct-to-dvd sequel from 2005, starring Robert Englund, is just as fun!)

[Copper]

For me it'd be Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik.

[Karl O'Neill]

Attack of the b's!!!!!

[Stranger With Candy]

The term B movie originally referred to a motion picture made on a low or modest budget and intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continues to be used in a broader sense, referring to any low-budget, commercial motion picture meant neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie

Ah, yeah. Wikipedia. Should have gane there :P


Well... Shaun of the Dead is my favorite b movie then.

[Buzz Dixon]

Refresher course: A "B" movie was the second movie on a double bill. During the Depression, theaters tried to lure customers with double features. The "A" picture was usually a new release, the "B" picture might be a re-release or it might be an inexpensive studio film or an indie production. A "B" movie designation originally had no reference to budget, just billing.

Since the late 1940s, however, and especially with the rise of drive-in theaters, a "B" movie has come to mean a low budget exploitation film. Nowadays many big budget studio releases are indistinguishable from classic "B" movies save in budget and size.

The previously mentioned THEM!, DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE were all "A" pictures in that they were not part of a double bill when first released (although DAY is the only one with top level stars of the era in it; the other two were populated by supporting actors getting a try-out or stars from genuine "B" movies). Conversely, FORBIDDEN PLANET was made by MGM's "B" unit. Go figure...

My votes:

DETOUR
THUNDER ROAD
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF
THE BLOB
FORBIDDEN WORLD
GALAXY OF TERROR
ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD

[enigmatic1]

I don't know about favorite, but there are Dead Alive, the Evil Dead trilogy and Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky.

[Serik]

Thunder Road starring Robert Mitchum. Not only did it give us the classic Springsteen song of the same name, but it's *the* quintessential classic B-movie.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Thunder_road_cover.jpg

[TheLazy]

following the above guidelines for what would make a B-movie, then Clerks would have to be a favourate of mine.

As would the Wickerman

:)

[DDM]

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wf2i6d-fUrk)

Night of the Living Dead (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tvn-0LOHg0Q)

[hoffmandu]

I'm going Shaun of the Dead as well. Best flick that year, by far.

[JohnPopa]

Thunder Road starring Robert Mitchum. Not only did it give us the classic Springsteen song of the same name, but it's *the* quintessential classic B-movie.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Thunder_road_cover.jpg

I have a bootleg where Bruce tells the story that he'd never seen "Thunder Road" when he wrote the tune, he just thought the name "Thunder Road" would make a great song title!

[Slam_Bradley]

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[brundlefly]

Seen some of my favorites posted already, but I haven't seen ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK or BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA mentioned yet, so I'll go with those two.

[Buzz Dixon]

Thunder Road starring Robert Mitchum. Not only did it give us the classic Springsteen song of the same name, but it's *the* quintessential classic B-movie.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Thunder_road_cover.jpg
As much as I like Springsteen's "Thunder Road," it can't compare with the original, written by Big Bad Bob hisself...

"THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD"
by Robert Mitchum

Let me tell the story, I can tell it all;
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol.
His daddy made the whiskey, the son he drove the load;
And when his engine roared they called the highway "Thunder Road".

Sometimes into Nashville, sometimes Memphis town.
The Revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down.
Each time they thought they had him his engine would explode.
He'd go by like they were standing still on "Thunder Road".

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first.

It was on the first of April, Nineteen-Fifty-Four
The federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more.
He said "200 agents were covering the state;
Which ever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate."

'Son' his daddy told him, 'make this run your last.
The tank is filled with 100 proof; you're all tuned-up and gassed.
Now don't take any chances, if you can't get through.
I'd rather have you back again than all that Mountain Dew.'

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they swore they'ed get him but the devil got him first.

Roaring out of Harlan; revving up his mill.
He shot the Gap at Cumberland and streamed by Maynardville.
With G men on his tail light; road block up ahead,
The mountain boy took roads that even angels fear to tread.

Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at 90; that's all there is to say,
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they never got him 'cause the devil got him first.


(Sidebar: All the towns and roads mentioned in the song are real and geographically correct.)

[Serik]

I have a bootleg where Bruce tells the story that he'd never seen "Thunder Road" when he wrote the tune, he just thought the name "Thunder Road" would make a great song title!

Yeah, that's a great story. Is it the Passaic Night bootleg?

"There was this Robert Mitchum movie. It was about these moonshine runners down south...I never saw the movie, I only saw the poster in the lobby of the theater...and I took the title and I wrote this song...but I didn't think there was ever a place that was like what I wrote this song about...

We were out in the desert, it was summertime, driving to Nevada. And we came upon this house on the side of the road this Indian built. Had a big picture of Geronimo out front and said landlord over top. And it had this big sign that said, "This is the land of peace, love, justice and no mercy." And it pointed down this little dirt road and said "Thunder Road.""

[Grazzt]

Does Death Race 2000 count as a B-movie? That's my favourite.

[Infra-Man]

Put down another vote for Rock & Roll High School. I had such a big crush on Riff Randell.

And if it counts, my namesake Infra-Man should be up there as well.

Honorable mentions to Billy Jack and Dolemite

[david r]

Favorite B Movies:

Dementia 13
Phantasm
Head (The Monkees' movie!)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
The Terror (Jack Nicholson & Boris Karloff)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich's first film, one of Karloff's best!)
The House That Dripped Blood
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Vanishing Point
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Black Christmas
Legend of Boggy Creek (Must be seen to be BELIEVED!)
The Changeling
Creature from Black Lake
House of Seven Corpses
Amityville 3-D
Friday the 13th Part III
Fright Night
Jaws 3-D
Phase IV
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Dark Star (John Carpenter's first flick)
Silent Running
Logan's Run
Twilight Zone the Movie
Matinee
Clash of the Titans
Jason and the Argonauts (1963 classic)
Krull
Lemora-Lady Dracula
The Blob (1958 Steve McQueen one)
Westworld
Equinox (1970 film)
Entire Christopher Lee DRACULA series
Masque of the Red Death (Vincent Price, Roger Corman classic)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (This MUST be seen)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Mysterious Island
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1973)
Creepshow
From Beyond
Alligator
The Evil Dead
Bubba Ho Tep
Carnival of Souls
The Howling
Halloween
It's Alive
Eraserhead

[Infra-Man]

Favorite B Movies:
Two-Lane Blacktop

I think the line was "Make it three hundred dollars mother f##ker and you've got yourself an automobile race." James Taylor is bad ass.

Oh, since you mentioned Logan's Run, I think Jenny Agutter was another one of my early actress crushes. Needless to say, I rented Walkabout a few days after seeing Logan's Run and An American Werewolf in London.

[david r]

I love Two-Lane Blacktop. A road-trip where the real journey is happening inside the characters. Warren Oates gives one of the best performances you'll ever see.

James Taylor and the drummer from the Beach Boys---an interesting mix!!

[mattx110]

As much as I like Springsteen's "Thunder Road," it can't compare with the original, written by Big Bad Bob hisself...

"THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD"
by Robert Mitchum

Let me tell the story, I can tell it all;
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol.
His daddy made the whiskey, the son he drove the load;
And when his engine roared they called the highway "Thunder Road".

Sometimes into Nashville, sometimes Memphis town.
The Revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down.
Each time they thought they had him his engine would explode.
He'd go by like they were standing still on "Thunder Road".

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first.

It was on the first of April, Nineteen-Fifty-Four
The federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more.
He said "200 agents were covering the state;
Which ever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate."

'Son' his daddy told him, 'make this run your last.
The tank is filled with 100 proof; you're all tuned-up and gassed.
Now don't take any chances, if you can't get through.
I'd rather have you back again than all that Mountain Dew.'

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they swore they'ed get him but the devil got him first.

Roaring out of Harlan; revving up his mill.
He shot the Gap at Cumberland and streamed by Maynardville.
With G men on his tail light; road block up ahead,
The mountain boy took roads that even angels fear to tread.

Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at 90; that's all there is to say,
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.

And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road",
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load.
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
The law they never got him 'cause the devil got him first.


(Sidebar: All the towns and roads mentioned in the song are real and geographically correct.)

wow, i didn't know mitchum did the words to that. that's my favorite country western/country jazz, hank garland/doc watson type standard.

every time i hear or read the words "robert mitchum" he gets more badass.

[kal_el21]

'No Retreat, No Surrender'

I believe that this was Jean Claude Van Damme's first US movie. He played a Russian kickboxer with one line: "So, it is you! The son!"

[Buzz Dixon]

wow, i didn't know mitchum did the words to that. that's my favorite country western/country jazz, hank garland/doc watson type standard.

every time i hear or read the words "robert mitchum" he gets more badass.Mitchum also cut an album of calypso songs called CALYPSO LIKE SO, many of which he wrote himself, and did really well on it, I might add. If you find the CD it has two bonus tracks, one of which is "The Ballad of Thunder Road."

[Buzz Dixon]

david r --

Lotsa great movies there, but technically LOGAN'S RUN, SILENT RUNNING, THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, HEAD (The Monkees), MATINEE, TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS and CLASH OF THE TITANS were all major studio productions with "A" level talent even if they didn't get a big release (viz. HEAD and SILENT RUNNING). Harryhausen's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND would have been an "A" production if Herbert Lom hadn't been the only name actor in the cast.

[Greg Hatcher]

Hell, almost all the DVDs I care enough to actually OWN would be B-listers. Those and boxed sets of failed TV series. I guess I'm all about the underdog.

I really liked the first Trancers, with Tim Thomerson. Actually we like pretty much anything with Tim Thomerson, he's always fun to watch no matter what he's in. We sat through the next four really AWFUL Trancers sequels just for him. He's my pick for king of the B movies now that Bruce Campbell's getting A-level famous.

[Ontir]

Buckets of Blood, starring Bert Convy!

the Death Master, in which a bunch of hippies in a commune, discover that at the center of it all, is one hungry vampire!

One I saw as a teen, and just watched again recently - thanks to Netflix - is Chain Gang Women. I must say my memories are far more fond. I was amazed just how many times they drove over the same stretch of Mulholland, making no attempt to disguise where they were.

Channel 10, in Rochester, back in the 80's, used to run B-Movies every saturday night. My Dad called them "the Cream of the crap!" There was one, and I can't recall its name, about a group of astronauts on a starship, which is trying to kill them, and it turns out the ship has a human brain running it. Of all the films they screened in that series, it was probably the best.

[girder]

Evil Dead II (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/)

Six-String Samurai (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/)

The Omega Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/)

And if it counts:

John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/)

[DDM]

John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/)

John Carpenter's The Thing is a big budget movie. It is hardly a B-movie. Carpenter spent thousands of dollars on the special effects alone. This is not counting the on location shooting for the movie either...

[DDM]

Rabid Grannies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQPqqnnn1nE&mode=related&search=)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5lDfOutw4)

Tourist Trap (http://youtube.com/watch?v=x2lBWw4kJr8)

Roller Boogie (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PlyfLLK4fjw&mode=related&search=)

Rock N Roll High School (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dHCgOYYNioc&mode=user&search=)

Piranha (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLSNNOlrCv4&mode=related&search=)

C.H.U.D. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6juGPnFxtds&mode=related&search=)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CKdRDkrF8)

[david r]

And how can we forget---

Manos: The Hands of Fate!

One of the most outrageously inept movies of all time. A Z-movie, to be sure.

[Ontir]

Did you ever see I Spit on Your Grave (http://imdb.com/title/tt0077713/)? One of the most repugnant films I've ever seen.

On the other hand, I LOVED Cannibal Holocaust (http://imdb.com/title/tt0078935/)!

Several months ago, as part of "the Grind-House Festival," a friend's film Mausoleum (http://imdb.com/title/tt0085918/) was screened. This definitely qualifies as "cream of the crap!" It is, however, unintentionally hysterical! "Beware the curse of the Nomed women!" :p

[twilight]

Blacula for me.

Is that a B-Movie?

[ragnarok_2012]

I'm gonna go with a semi-obscure movie that I really like.

Charlie's Sheen's The Arrival

[Ninth Hispana]

Check out ''Tremors'', the first film.Now that's a great ''B''grade movie...

[Ontir]

Blacula is Blaxploitation, which I think is different from a B-Movie.

[LordEd1976]

Clash of the Titans
Big Trouble in Little China
Alien from LA
Hercules vs the Moonmen

Would Ladyhawke and Kull count as B-movies?

[Ontir]

I don't think any of those are B-Movies, but Ladyhawk is pure crap!

Matthew Broderick had 7 different accents in that film, and 5 were Brooklyn.

[DDM]

Blacula for me.

Is that a B-Movie?

Yes, Blackula is a B-movie. Most "Blaxploitation" films of that era are...

[hitokiri_]

journey to the top of the world for me.

[Tazirai]

Dude, you can't possibly have a favorite b-movie, there are too many of quality cheese, to have just one, with that in mind, my top 5 short list in no particular order are:


There are WAAY to many to name but to start off... Nuke em high, sgt kabukiman, Nuclear nightmare, Critters, Pumpkin head.. etc etc etc.

[david r]

Did you ever see I Spit on Your Grave (http://imdb.com/title/tt0077713/)? One of the most repugnant films I've ever seen.

I've never seen it. Heard it was horrid.

Several months ago, as part of "the Grind-House Festival," a friend's film Mausoleum (http://imdb.com/title/tt0085918/) was screened.

I remember seeing advertisements for "Mausoleum" back in 1983. And have always been curious about it. You say it was bad?

[marshal99]

Clash of the Titans
Big Trouble in Little China
Alien from LA
Hercules vs the Moonmen

Would Ladyhawke and Kull count as B-movies?

Clash of the titans and Big Trouble in little china are B-movies by way of the movie itself but not in the budget. Both were quite big budget for their time. The hype for Clash of the titans were big , they had laurence oliver as zeus.

[Buzz Dixon]

Clash of the Titans
Big Trouble in Little China
Alien from LA
Hercules vs the Moonmen

Would Ladyhawke and Kull count as B-movies?
ALIEN FROM L.A. and HERCULES VS. THE MOONMEN would count. The former was a Canon/Golan-Globus production, IIRC, and they specialized in exploitation B-productions (they made a few A-productions, the last one, RUNAWAY TRAIN based on an unfilmed screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and starring Jon Voight, costing them a bundle and losing it all thus pretty m,uch effectively crippling the company to the point it closed; the lesson being -- and the reason why Kurosawa himself could never obtain funding for the film -- is that you don't make a movie about a runaway train in which you spend 90 minutes talking about the horrific crash that's going to occur when the train runs out of track unless you show the horrific crash that occurs when the train runs out of track!), the latter was a B-picture even by Italian standards and was released as part of double-bills in the U.S.

(Whew -- that was some parenthetical, wasn't it?)

CLASH, BIG, LADYHAWKE, and KULL were all major studio productions with major studio A-releases.

Let us review:

A genre movie is not necessarily a B-movie; though many B-movies are genre films, not all of them are (THE WILDERNESS FAMILY, f'r instance, is one of the most successful B-movies ever and it's just a simple G-rated story about a family that lives in a log cabin in the wilderness).

An exploitation film is not necessarily a B-movie (by definition, an exploitation film seeks to exploit some hot topic, and since B-movies can be made fast and cheap then often gravitate in that direction, but even A-pictures can exploit hot topics; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? is as much an exploitation film as anything Kroger Babb ever produced but it was aimed at a more refined audience).

While not exclusively a function of budget, a B-movie traditionally has been a more economical production, filmed on backlots with leftover props and costumes if done by a big studio, on location if done by indie producers. B-movies tend to be less pretentious, more pop culture oriented; they were once referred to in the film industry as "programmers" since they were viewed as pretty much interchangeable. They are not regarded as special or unique at the time they are made, oftentimes fail to hold up well when viewed in retrospect, but often have enough memorable moments and performances to remain in play years later.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Teen Witch...

I thought it was a cool movie as a kid. I still love watching it, but for different reasons.

Hilarious, dated movie.

[Frankie Dennis]

Robot Monster
The Giant Claw
From Hell It Came
Warning From Space

They're wonderfully bad.

[DDM]

I remember seeing advertisements for "Mausoleum" back in 1983. And have always been curious about it. You say it was bad?

In Mausoleum, when the woman is possessed by the demons, her breasts grow mouths & kill. Her fingernails become talons. And her face becomes demonic in appearance. The movie is worth it just to see her killer boobs.

[Generic Eric]

Surf Nazis Must Die
Puppet Master 1-4
Subspecies 2
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Class Of Nuke Em High
Rocky Horror Picture Show

[david r]

Plan 9 From Outer Space ! Ed Wood's timeless masterpiece!! I swear, just watching this one will leave you staring at the screen in disbelief. How could this have been made? How could this have been shown in actual theates???

The ultimate "guilty pleasure"--- Plan 9 From Outer Space!

Mausoleum, I got to see that one. Why has it never been released on video or DVD?

[Ontir]

I remember seeing advertisements for "Mausoleum" back in 1983. And have always been curious about it. You say it was bad?

Both films are extremely bad, but "Mausoleum" is funny, while "I Spit on Your Grave" is just execrable. There's a scene in which the lead drives her car to the mausoleum. When she emerges, the car is facing the other way. Apparently the evil, haunted, mausoleum has valet. La Wanda Page, best known as Red Foxx's sister-in-law on Sanford & Son is also quite funny.

[Howard Allan]

All of the Toxic Avenger series. Each of them is wonderfully awful.

[wingsofdamnation]

anything with bruce campbell. most notably the evil dead trilogy and terminal invasion. seriously anyone ever see terminal invasion? its such a great b movie! bruce campbell plays a killer who is being transported to another prison when the airport gets taken over by aliens. best part of the movie? the stereotypical black guy. if you look up stereotype in the dictionary you would see him.

[Tobias March]

Surf Nazis Must Die
Puppet Master 1-4
Subspecies 2
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Class Of Nuke Em High
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Surf Nazis.... is one of those film which has a great title, but just plain sucks.

Now Biker Chicks In Zombie Town THAT works :D

[Buzz Dixon]

Surf Nazis.... is one of those film which has a great title, but just plain sucks.

Now Biker Chicks In Zombie Town THAT works :DThe best Troma title was A NYMPHOID BARBARIAN IN DINOSAUR HELL.

Speaking of which, I'm fond of HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (Rowdy Roddy Piper) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN 2, in which Robert Z'Dar (he of the extremely prodigious jaw) gets to play a good guy for once, this time a Rocketeer-like action hero.

[Tobias March]

The best Troma titles was A NYMPHOID BARBARIAN IN DINOSAUR HELL.



Oh man that flick bored the hell out of me. It was given to me as a gift and I put off watching it for months. I think watched it on x18 speed.

[Generic Eric]

Surf Nazis.... is one of those film which has a great title, but just plain sucks.

Then again this is not a thread about 'good' movies. This film is fricken awful on every level. And I love it for being what it is.

All of the Toxic Avenger series. Each of them is wonderfully awful.

those films are classic.

[Buzz Dixon]

Oh man that flick bored the hell out of me. It was given to me as a gift and I put off watching it for months. I think watched it on x18 speed.I agree: Not enough nudity or stop motion monsters (though there were quite a few of them).

[david r]

Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?

[PanzerMega]

All of the Toxic Avenger series. Each of them is wonderfully awful.

Troma's next movie is Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. It should be out soon, same director as Toxic Avenger.

[Buzz Dixon]

Troma's next movie is Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. It should be out soon, same director as Toxic Avenger.
TOXIC AVENGER had a director?!?!?

[PanzerMega]

TOXIC AVENGER had a director?!?!?

Ok, now that was funny.

Lloyd Kaufman is my hero.

[Ontir]

My friend Karyus is in Poultrygeist, IIRC, he was also in the affects dept. on that one, too. Yes, hard as it seems to believe, Lloyd Kaufman actually DID direct both this AND co-directe the Toxic Avenger (http://imdb.com/title/tt0090190/).

[PanzerMega]

My friend Karyus is in Poultrygeist, IIRC, he was also in the affects dept. on that one, too. Yes, hard as it seems to believe, Lloyd Kaufman actually DID direct both this AND co-directe the Toxic Avenger (http://imdb.com/title/tt0090190/).

Sweet deal. What did Karyus play in the movie?

I was a generic protestor-turned-chicken-zombie.

[Erebus]

Tsk, tsk. 5 pages, and no mention of Equilibrium? Completely unoriginal and convulted plot, but absolutely AWESOME action.

[GodSmackingReptile]

Any movie with Bruce Cambell. He is a GOD!! im currently looking for the movie The Man with the Sceaming Brain ive heard that he fights robots. gotta love it. Terminal Invasion is one of my favorites, right next to the whole Evil Dead series. Me and my family went and saw Evil Dead the Musical- oh yes there's a musical.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

anything by ray harryhausen especialy sinbad...

also terror vision this movie is the shit

the critters films

[BloodRedSandman]

Moon 44
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.

[marshal99]

The next B-movie greatness looks to be the upcoming "Plane Dead". Looks pretty wicked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrYXqAGcJFU

[Andy S.]

Speaking of which, I'm fond of HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (Rowdy Roddy Piper) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN 2, in which Robert Z'Dar (he of the extremely prodigious jaw) gets to play a good guy for once, this time a Rocketeer-like action hero.

LOL!! You mean the guy from that MST 3000 movie Soul Taker? Yes! :D

Seeing someone mention the movie Mausoleum earlier made me flashback to the late 80s when this thing on the USA network came on every Saturday night - "Saturday Nightmares" i think it was called. Anyway, they would always have a double feature of B-grade horror flics that probably weren't the best thing for my 9-10 year-old eyes to be watching. Oh well.
Movies like:

Day of the Dead
Spookies
The Unseen
The Hills Have Eyes
Night of the Creeps
Basket Case
Basket Case II (yes, there was a sequel)
Motel Hell
Goulies
Puppet Master saga

and a dozen others i can't remember right now. Good times.

[Nefarius]

They Live

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ...and I'm all out of bubblegum"

Best line ever!!!!

[Thorlief]

Ah, Robert Z'Dar! Is the guy Russian or what? I remember him being in one of the worst Post Cold War Rambo cheaparse ripoffs ever, but sadly I dont remember the name. There were those two soldiers, one American and Z'Dar the giant Russian one, who had to fight against themselves and then, after finding out something stinky behind it, they spend the whole time killing thousands of privates from both armies around an impressive bunch of exotic locations technically called "a wooden farm disguised as a facility". The good ending is obviously present with both guys slapping their own butts and going out for dinner, and then there's the best quote of the movie.
While all dressed up in charme and ready to have fun, the American guy asks Bobby "We hafta find Sergei some girl...whaddaya think, Sergei?" and Sergei replies "SERGEI LIKE ALL UMAN! HO. HO. HO. HO. HO."

on topic, the first titles popping in my mind are Future Force and Future Force 2, the first one featuring the best Z-movie villain ever, William Zipp (also called "The Jacket") as Jason Adams, a ruthless crime lord with a terrible ponytail

Future Force sees the great David Carradine as John Tucker, a tough private cop whose job is to bring his agency (called C.O.P.S) as much criminals as he can patrolling the highly futuristic streets of Los Angeles. Too bad he takes too literally the words "dead or alive", expecially the first part, hence his boss is pissed at him..but she tolerates Tucker because he's THE BEST COP oops C.O.P. around the block

he uses a highly advanced power glove, controlled by distance via a 1952 remote as shown in the pic
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/futureforce/futureforce4.jpg

Tucker has a friend, Billy, a nerd on a wheelchair who is obviously a tech genius, thus making him able to hack Adams' C64 and finds out Tucker is in great danger: Adams wants him dead because he's tired of wasting dozens of billions because of only one C.O.P. . But he still doesnt know what Tucker can do.

There are a lot of colourful characters: Father Grimes is...um..a priest who doesnt tolerate Adams' businness, but just because he doesn't want to share his own crime income. Father Grimes is dangerous, expecially when he embraces his bazooka yelling in Latin

Becker is Adams fav henchman. He looks like a fat Freddy Krueger, plus he sucks at computers. He's famous to use passwords like "Burro", the most difficult password ever; in fact Billy (whos dressed as Luke Skywalker on Tattooine, no kidding) hacks the crap outta it in 0,02 seconds

Marion Simms is the obvious damsel in distress: there are a couple of girls worth mentioning, but only if you are into some perverted stuff like Girls whose head is bigger than a street lamp or Girls who dont wash their feet too often hence they should at least not show em while dancing or again Girls who pretend to be girls even if they look like your drunk cali aunt

some quotes? Becker is kicking the crap outta Tucker, then our hero suddenly pulls out his magical remote and Becker says "Whattayadoing with that? Dont like me, wanna switch channel?"

Tucker is watching TV in the C.O.P.S. favourite bar which looks exactly like a 1986 Los Angeles crappy bar even tho we're supposed to be in the future. Marion, a journalist, says that theres too much violence in the world and expecially in L.A. and Tucker states his opinion shooting at the tv with his big gun, saying "NECESSARY VIOLENCE" while everyone slaps his back in great appreciation. The bartender shows up holding a bat, obviously pissed because you cant go in a bar and shoot a TV without permission. Tucker throws about 1000 dollars at his face and the Bartender says "...Ok";
I couldnt agree more because y know, with that amount of money he could buy a whole set of crappy televisions

"..the 'uck you want?" Tucker's wannabe girlfriend answers gently to that gentleman that is Becker

"Dominus Vobiscum, Adams!" Father Grimes yells in Latin while shooting the bazooka, and taking down a cardboard helicopter

and then it comes the most illogical phone call ever. Becker is telling Adams some really bad news: "It was Tucker...he killed everyone we sent to kill him"; Adams instantly loses his temper and screams "Who the hell he thinks he is??" "He's Tucker" says Becker

funny stuff. You all should get this BS asap

[Thorlief]

I also remember this terrible cheap Bruce Lee imitation, it was called Kill or be killed or something like that. It was about his former Nazi who wants to create the Martial Arts Olympics in the middle of South Africa and this guy, Chen, who looks nothing asian (more italian, or french) causes a riot and kills everyone.
Memorable chars: Chen himself, Von Rudloff (the nazi), a dwarf called Chico, a hulking guy called Luc and ADOLF HITLER HIMSELF (you heard it!)

Awesome movie

[jesse_custer]

Bloodsport.

[Legato]

Bloodsport.

That and Kickboxing.

Everybody hated the movie but I found the first Live Action Guyver movie to be mildly entertaining due to that Mark Hamil kept the movie from being a stinker.

[Tobias March]

Oh They Live ftw
:D

[Legato]

Oh They Live ftw
:D

"I have come here to chew Bubblegum and kick ass. Im all out of Bubblegum"

[The Mutt]

Argh. So hard to decide what B means. Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon were B movies, weren't they?

I'll go with The Road Warrior. It's everything a B movie should be, yet it's on my top ten of greatest movies ever made.

[Hatut Zeraze]

The first movie I thought of when I read the thread title was Nice Girls Don't Explode. Man, I hope there's an American DVD made of this one day.

[Basara]

Tsk tsk. This far in and no mention yet of the B-movie with the arguably the most awesome soundtrack of all time:

FLASH GORDON!

[Outsider]

Troll 2, so bad it's good.

[mgs]

This is a hard one, considering, I think even the original TCM could be considered B. Standards would have to rate the movie costs for the day, not for current standards.I've never seen it. Heard it was horrid.

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The first half is very hard to watch and listen to, not the end. I didn't have the advantage of knowing the whole backstory (being called, 'Day of the Woman') and whatnot before watching it, but it might help you.

[ultramandingo]

......THE trilogy - night - dawn - day- of the dead

[marshal99]

Troll 2, so bad it's good.


I loved troll 1 but troll 2 ? Troll 2 isn't a B-movie , it's a Z-movie. Up there with the best of Uwe Boll movies. Ugh !
Troll 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7tg-aRIkU

Anthony Hickox's Waxwork I & II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8cEqqtwR8

Warlock I & II (Julian Sands is absolutely wicked as the warlock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANiBuBzpDA

And of course ,
never forgetting the cult classic "Big trouble in little China". Just a shame that it was a box office flop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM3-YO7qHs