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Subject: (OT) Favourite "B" Movies
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Lots - I can thrive on them. Even though they are cheezy, they show lots of low budget creativity.
Favs:
Night of the Comet
Dawn of the Dead
Trancers
Knightriders
Split Second
Tim Thomerson and Rutger Hauer tend to infest B-budget movies and they always entertain me.
I like most of the ones mentioned already :)
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Barbarella is famous for giving a certain 80's band it's name; one of the characters was named Duran Duran..;) I tried modeling the gun once, but it was beyond me..;)
Then there are the strangest B movies; I nominate *Putney Swope, Buckaroo Banzai (*I keep feeling like it's one long inside joke that someone didn't clue me in on..;), *Zardoz (*I think that might have been one of the first R's or maybe even X that I saw as a yute..;), and all those other movies that have me repeating the mantra 'wtf'..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
Barbarella is famous for giving a certain 80's band it's name; one of the characters was named Duran Duran..;) I tried modeling the gun once, but it was beyond me..;)
Then there are the strangest B movies; I nominate *Putney Swope, Buckaroo Banzai (*I keep feeling like it's one long inside joke that someone didn't clue me in on..;), *Zardoz (*I think that might have been one of the first R's or maybe even X that I saw as a yute..;), and all those other movies that have me repeating the mantra 'wtf'..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was a great one - althought I don't know if it qualifies as a "B" movie. It kind of predates that, and it was a major motion picture in its time.
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang was another good one. I don't know if it was an A or a B though. Warner Bros' made lots of gritty "social realism" films around that time - it was kind of their specialty. If I recall correctly, the film was banned in Georgia because it was a thinly veiled adaptation of a true story, taken right from the newspapers of the day. The "southern" part actually took place in Georgia (and the movie didn't make them look too good.)
BTW, in case anyone didn't know already, the term "B movie" was originally a technical term in Hollywood. The studios had a schedule of pictures that they made each year. The big films - the ones that got the top stars, the big budgets, and the most marketing - were on the "A" list. But the studio would also make a number of lower-budget films using its stable of lesser name actors, stars-in-training and bit-players. These were the movies on the "B" list. So being called a B-movie was a measure of the film's budget and place in the studio lineup, not necessarily a comment ont he film's overall quality. As the studio system broke down in he 50's and 60's, B-movie came to mean any cheaply made film, even those made outside of the studio system.
Yes, I'll shut up now.
- Jimdoria ~@>@
Attached Link: http://www.archive.org/details/DasKabinettdesDoktorCaligariTheCabinetofDrCaligari
woot take a look!the Cabinet of Dr Caligari is now Public Domain (in the US ;) ) and availible for download at the link free of charge... (legal download)
- wanders, late, into thread *
Q the Winged Serpent (1982)
Written and directed by B-movie master Larry Cohen, starring such acting greats as David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, and Richard Roundtree, and featuring a dubious plot that likely was the secret inspiration for Godzilla '98.
I look up to Q as a role model, but even I wouldn't have the bad taste to nest in the Chrysler Building.
To Xantor, Both you and Jimdoria are correct. The movies were, indeed, on the studios "B" List, and when marketed theaters HAD to rent so many of the B List in order to get the A list movies.
Part of the break down of the Studio System, when tv became common after WW2 was that double features and matinees became less cost effective due to smaller audiences. Theaters, that were being bought out or built by larger corperations themselves and thus gaining more "clout", bulked at the Studio "Package Deals". The theaters began showing the single "Main Feature" consecutively to allow audiences more choice in viewing times to pull in more people. Once that happened studios couldn't afford to keep hundreds of extras, and "lesser" lead actors on contract when few B movies were being rented.
On another note Little Dragon, Glad to see you back in the forum.
mike
I miss the double features.
I also miss being able to go to a movie and sit through it as many times as you wanted for your admission. Now you go and the lights come up before the credits have even finished and there is mad dash to the exit doors, and if you linger beyond that you're booted out, LOL
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
silent running ...
enemy mine
death machine
and of course GUNHED!!!!! (Ganheddo)
maybe THE live action mecha movie next to the canadian(?) movie Robot Jox
the Gunhed (gun unit heavy elimination device) is maybe one of the main reasons to see this movie, the set is great, but the story and acting is maybe to japanese for some folks. but still a great done movie for its time, (created by the guys responsible for all these stunning godzilla miniatures) i still own the original laserdisc of it ^_^
very nicely done gunhed garage kit...man, i would set myself on fire just to get this one...
and then there was ...plan 9 from outer space.. its so badly done its already brilliant again, got to chuckle all the time about the pathetic special effects and the bad acting
Ice Pirates!
A film called The Irrefutable Truth About Demons from New Zealand I think. It keeps showing on Showtime Beyond. I love it - I think it's a great example of how you can use pretty simple make-up and stuff to make people seem really crazy. I can't really explain why, but I really like the leads (Karl Urban, Katie Wolfe and Jonathon Hendry).
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original).
Rosemary's Baby
Stepford Wives (the original)
Ju-On (the version before the major American release, which ended with a shot of a Tokyo empty of people and full of missing notices)
Krull (for the cool weapon and the Cyclops)
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Just about any 70s vampire movie, most of which seem to be a) British and b) thinly disguised soft-core. They're generally hilarious. A great example of this is The Vampire Lovers with Peter Cushing, a film based on the short story "Carmilla" by Sheridan LeFanu.
Onmyoji I & II
Dolemite - If only for the line, "While you were away, I had the girls learn kung-fu."
The Faculty - just about everyone in it went on to become huge.
and most of the movies mentioned already.
BTW, Little Shop of Horrors was a musical on Broadway for years before becoming a movie musical.
I like lots of B movies :)
Tremors--all 4 movies. What's cheesier that a giant worm eating cowboys? Starring Michael Gross?
Lake Placid--Betty White raising killer alligators in upsate New York
Any and all of those wonderful 1960's Japanese monster movies--Godzilla, Mothra, the whole gang :)
And any movie with Matthew Broderick is a B movie by definition :)
"The Deadly Mantis" "The Thing" (with James Arness) "Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein" "Bride of the Monster" (Bella Lugosi and Tor Johnson) (anything with Tor Johnson) "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (orig. short story by Ray Bradbury) "Journey to the Seventh Planet" "Gorgo" "Black Friday" (the original witchcraft based movie" "The House that Dripped Blood".....(Christ! anything with Vincent Price!) the original *House on Haunted Hill" the original "13 Ghosts" the original "The Haunting" ....ah crap....now I'm gonna be up all night.... Scarab
Each all of the ones mentioned are my favorites too. But what about the Hammer films of the 50's and 60's. Chistoher Lee as Dracula and the mummy, or Death Race 2000 and the follow up Death sport? Going back a little further, what about the orginal Flash Gordan and Buck Rogers serials with Buster Crab? Project Moonbase, based on a story by Robert Heinlein is also a good one if rarely seen.
When I mention these to kids now adays and try to get them to watch them, the first thing that they say, "oh yech no color! Or those are really cheesy." They even say that about the orginal Star Wars and I just shake my head. I had tried explaining that some movies like Star Wars and Forbidden planet were actually cutting edge movie technology at the time. They just don't get it. Of course when your world is totally wrapped up in PS2 or computer games then I would guess that movies, old movies, are boring......
"Those were the days my friend, we thought that they would never end....."
Butch
Just watched another oldy moldy from the 60's...Matango.. in english, it was "Attack of the Mushroom People".
Pretty dang cool.. I hadn't seen it in about 30 years!
A few other guilty pleasures... From Hell it came! (With T'Bongo, the walking tree!)
Monster of Piedras Blancas
Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.
I might as well confess that to me the ultimate b movies and have to be one of my most secret guilty pleasures when it comes to watching movies are the movies made by Elvis. How can you not like the combination of music and beautiful girls combined with some of the most cheesiest plots and dialogues? If that wasn't bad enough, I also like Shirley Temple movies...
ARRRRRAGH!
Now I will return from the closet from whence I came
Oh No, I had forgotten all about the Frankie and Annette movies! Add those to the list. And No, I don't own any of the Elvis, Shirley or beach movies. I always mean to buy those but instead end up buying some dumb movie like the matrix, starwars, or some other lame movie instead of those hollywood classics....
"I have been a Baaaaaaad boy...."
Good Lord, "From Hell It Came" ....I thought about that one the day after I made my list. My little brother, (who was about 5 years old when we saw it on TV for the first time) was terrified of that damned stupid tree. I had much fun freaking him out just lumbering (pun intended) about and going "walky walky tree" (his name for it). God I was a right little bastard! Scarab
Cat women of the moon, The crawling eye, The Giant Claw, Tarantula, Them, C.H.U.D. Krull, The Angry Red Planet, Forbbiden planet, Any of the monster from the black lagoon movies, the leprechaun movies were a crack! The puppet master flicks, Piranha, Reptilicus, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rollerball, The Tingler, 20 Million miles to earth, The Day the Earth Stood still, The Amazing Colossal Man, I married a witch(1942), I was a teenage Werewolf, Mighty Joe Young, Monolith Monsters, The beast from Hollow Mountian, Elsa Fräulein SS, Fiend Without A Face, First man into space, the invisible man, Diary of a madman, Dinosuraus, any Dracula moives from 1931 on, oh yeah and the Thirty foot Bride of Candy Rock, 13 ghosts the 1960 version, Gator bait, Girls in Prison (1956), One million Years B.C., Pit & the pendulum(1961), Prototype X29A, Queen of Outter Space, The Raven both the 1935 and 1963 versions, She Demons, They saved Hitler's Brain, When Worlds Collide, Zontar the thing from Venus and Westworld, The time machine(1960). There were scores of "B" moives I saw as a kid back in the 60's and from the 50's but can't remember their names.
Its scary how many of these movies I've seen and have in my movie collection.
Forbidden Planet is mine.
Honorable mentions
The day the earth stood still
War of the Worlds (I liked both new and old versions)
When worlds collide
Hmmm all Sci Fi. I've tried to like the fantasy B stuff like Beastmaster, DragonSlayer but they were so badly done all the entertainment is squeezed out. Except for...
Conan the Barbarian
Excalibur
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I don't think you can count the "Scary Movie" franchise or other parodies like "Spaceballs" as B movies. After all that's what they're making fun of. They're trying to be cheesy.
That's not to say comedies are out: after all, comedies can be cheesy. "Toxic Avenger" anyone? Or my fave, "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-rama".
Scary Movie 1,2,3 and Spaceballs are B movies, B cause you have to B a B movie, in order to B little a B movie. So B it!! These B my favorites:
Adventure -- Conan the Destroyer
Comedy -- Scary Movie 2
High School -- Once Bitten
Horror -- Nightmare on Elm Street
Sci-Fi -- The Terminator (original)
TV Channel -- Sci-Fi
TV Series -- Son of the Beach
Western -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I know I've seen better, but I can't remeber their titles!!
No one has mentioned
The Incredible TwoHeaded Transplant
Starring a young Bruce Dern, Pat Priest (the niece? from The Munsters), and
Casey Kasem
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067245/
And any of the Eddie Constantine movies. (these were French movies from
the fifties and sixties)
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My 2c worth. The film "I am a fugitive from a chain gang" staring Paul Muni. Think I even have a copy on VHS somewhere. Very gritty and very melodramatic by today's standards. Go banned in Georgia so must be OK.
http://www.filmsite.org/iama.html