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Mine is "Fantastic Voyage" from 1966.  For those who haven't seen it, I've attached a link to a summary of the movie.

It stars Rachel Welch, Donald Pleasence. Even James Brolin in one of his early bit parts.

The cinematography and effects were pretty amazing for back then. And it was interesting to see how the various parts of the inside of the body were visually depicted.

What is your favourite "B" Movie to watch?

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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

I've got 2 actually, DEstination Moon and When world's Collide.

THe actors probably wouldn't mean anything to anyone today but they were really great movies fro their time!

mike

 

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

and

Earth Girls are Easy

I just watched jackson's "kong". there were some scary scenes in it. but all the scenes were at least 3X too long, hence I hope they come out with a more reasonable version. as far as "b" movies, I liked that one with rex reason, the professor from "gilligan's island", and the guys with big foreheads from metal-luna or something. it's a real laff riot IMVHO.

Quote - I liked that one with rex reason, the professor from "gilligan's island", and the guys with big foreheads from metal-luna or something. it's a real laff riot IMVHO.

"This Island Earth" - also a favorite of mine. I also got many big laughs from the MST3K Movie version.

That reminds me, has anybody made an "Interositor" prop?

 

3dCritter

 

Quote - That reminds me, has anybody made an "Interositor" prop?

A .COB version resides at www.3dcafe.com in the sci-fi section.  It'll need to be converted to .OBJ before one can import it into Poser.

Sincerely,

Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!

1. Plan 9 From Outer Space, dubbed the worst movie of all time. Imagine my joy when I found it on DVD.

2. Forbidden Planet, though not really a B movie, it now appears dated. The special effects were ahead of their time, but now look cheesy.

3. Gigashadow. I still don't know what it was about.

Without a doubt, 1983's "Hercules", starring Lou Ferrigno!  Watch it, and you will learn there are 4 elements: Night, Day, Matter, and Wind!

Also, Plan 9 From Outer Space by the talentless genius of Edward D. Wood, Jr.  I think he pretty much pioneered B movies.

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I'm torn between The Beastmaster and The English Patient.
Then again, Star Wars is technically a B-movie...

gigashadow was Lexx, wasn't it? a canadian/german scifi show.

Lexx? I'm not familiar with that show. GIgashadow was the sequel to (I believe) a cult film where dark forces are trying to take over the universe.  Pretty straight forward, except the hero is dead though not a zombie whose pet is like a GIANT affectionate maggot, with a gender confused robot and a girl who's trying to prevent the evil dark lords from taking over with slime stuff. Really weird stuff; I can't believe they wasted the celluiod to shoot it. You can find it at Amazon

yup thats LEXX
in the US, they released the final part of the LEXX miniseries as 'Gigashadow'

as to being a waste.. you want to see the first 5 LEXX episdoes and the first series. it was actually quite brillant...

btw : the Zombie was Kai, last of the Brunnan-G who has been dead for 2000 years and was an assasian for His Merciful Shadow, who was infact a small part of the Gigashadow, the last remaining Insect left from the wars that the Brunnan-G fought.. and Kai was prophised to kill him/it but had the small technical problem of being dead and reliing on Protoblood (the slime you mentioned) to survive. hence them being back at the Cluster to get some... cos it's a secretion of the Gigashadows. the Girl, Zev, was meant to be converted into a Love Slave, she got the body and sex drive, but before she got the final programming an incident with a cluster lizard made her part cluster lizard, she escaped and gave her final programming to 790 (the bot head) so he fell in love with her. add in the LEXX (the giant bug spaceship under the command of security guard 3rd class Stanley Tweedle) and it got quite insane..

pant everybody got that?

but just watching the last part would'nt make anysense at all... so I can see why you called it a waste.. but trust me.. if you can get parts 1-4 it does make sense.. and it's a bloody good series.. made in Canada and Germany..

My 2 favourites:

1 - Dammit! I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)

2 - Flesh Gordon - loved the special effects!

Cheers,
Diolma

1 - Dammit! I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)

Dark Star

Quote - I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)

Dark Star, John Carpenter's directorial debut, partly written by Dan(?) O'Bannon (later, screenwriter for the original Alien).  It started as a film school project and then was expanded and released in theaters.  O'Bannon supposedly once said he went on to create Alien to make people scream since they didn't laugh at the beachball critter aboard the Dark Star.

Sincerely,

Bill

(OOPS!  Cross posted with Khai.)

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!

THANKS Redfern! Really!

Yup. Darkstar! Google didn't come up with it in any of the searches I tried.
The name was on the tip of my mind, but my one remaining brain-cell was on strike..

An Excellent 'B' Movie!!

Wonder if I can get a (legal) free download of it from somewhere..

Cheers,
Diolma

'The Gods Must be Crazy.'  Hated it when I first saw it (20 years ago?), but it kinda grows on you like a slow moving fungus.  Pleasant rainy Sunday afternoon fare.

Oopps - Sorry Khai - I responded to Redfern, but missed your reply. (possibly an X-Post, but also possibly a lack of concentratiion on my part...

But yes. Dark Star it was!

Cheers,
Diolma

I don't know why, but Robinson Crusoe on Mars..saw it when it came out in a drive-in movie theatre (I was like 7 at the time..;), but I've seen it numerous times since..

Dr. Phibes (both of them)..just wicked fun

There's just too many to list them all. There's a takeoff of Star Wars with John boy from the Waltons flying a giant hambone through space (with a Valkyrie I swear is the model for Dina..;), and the agent from UNCLE..;) It's worth watching, but only through a sense of morbid curiosity.

Somewhere in time, just appeals to me, but unlike the guy who flew a deck chair into the heavens with weather balloons, I know when to quit..;)

I've seen the origin of LEXX, which explains a lot more of what's going on, but I never could find the rest of them. Last I caught, there were on Earth, trying to scam various politicians..;)

and so on and so on..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

I also like "Planet of the Apes" movies, though I haven't seen one  in a number of years.

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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

Yep, definitely Dark Star.

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hmm.....definately Dark Star.....used to have it on VHS, but that was like 15 years or more ago, and besides, dont have a VHS player....  ^^

Jason And The Argonauts.....not sure if it was  a B movie at the time....

 "That which doesn't kill you is probably re-loading"

Quote - There's a takeoff of Star Wars with John boy from the Waltons flying a giant hambone through space (with a Valkyrie I swear is the model for Dina..;), and the agent from UNCLE..;) It's worth watching, but only through a sense of morbid curiosity.

That'll be Battle Beyond The Stars.

ohhh yeah..;) thanks

Actually, I forgot Army of Darkness..that was the closest movie to Doom until the Doom movie came out..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Quote - "I can't dredge up the name!! But it's the one where there about 3/4 guys, stuck in a gungy spacecraft that is blowing up suns and things. They eventually meet something they can't overcome (a ticking time-bomb thingy), and it ends up with one of them "surf-boarding" into oblivion..
(What the h*ll was that one called?????)"

Actually, that sounds like a variation of 'Dr. Strangelove,' with Slim Pickens Yahooing and waving his stetson as he rides the A-bomb down to earth.

I not sure if this qualifies as a B-movie, but I think my all time favorite was 'Teminator 2,' where Schwarzenegger played the 'sympathetic' robot.

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"Videodrome" will always be at the top of my short list of favorite "B"s. It became my religion for a while. The fact that it is a true story also helped.

I remember being enamored of "Parasite" when it came out in the theaters (in 3-D!) although I remembered very little except how cool the shotgun looked pointing right out of the screen, and what a great gizmo a secret, up-your-sleeve hand laser would be to have. I saw it years later and realized 1) How completely godawful and nonsensical it was and 2) It had Demi Moore in it (!) in what must have been one of her first roles. She looks about 17.

"Streets Of Fire" has always been another fave, just because it was so stylized and because there is nothing quite like watching Willem DaFoe open his mouth really wide to a rock beat.

"Flash Gordon" was another one I always liked. How can you not love any movie made after Star Wars where you can STILL see the wires holding up the spaceships? And as far as I'm concerned, Ornela Muti as Princess Aura  will always be the ultimate space babe.

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I like a quite a few B movies.  Princess Bride is a favorite and Army of Darkness is another.

Hail to the king, baby!

Jay

I remember a very funny spoof of Star Wars done by Mel Brooks (actually he did a spoof on the Star Trek movies too).

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SpaceBalls was the Mel Brooks take on Star Wars....

as for Battle Beyond The Stars....I thought the spaceship looked like a big pair of tits....guess it was my age....

 "That which doesn't kill you is probably re-loading"

No, the ship definitely had breasts. It had a woman's voice too. That was one of the "jokes" - the young guy being taught the "ways of the world" by his granddad's space ship.

Oh, and do foreign films count? One of the greatest outrageously bad films I ever saw was "Star Crash." I think it was an Italian film dubbed into English. I remember laughing for days over that one. My favorite part was during the climactic battle scene when the good guys sent their soldiers into battle by firing them at the bad guy's ship in big torpedoes, which smashed through the huge plate glass windows of the villain's ship. (Windows which were never visible when the outside of the ship was shown.) Once inside, the torpedoes popped open and the soldiers immediately jumped out and began shooting. I guess it was supposed to take place in a universe where space is filled with air.

(Speaking of which, how do we hear those TIE fighters and X-Wings roaring around?)

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no..that was the Valkyrie..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Nuf said

HEre's the poster from Battle beyond the stars. Shame it not a better view of the ship. I'll look thru a few more books however. I'm sure I have one.

mike

 

One of my all-time favorite "guilty pleasures" is "The Mysterians", (1957) "Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on". Lots of: giant monsters, flying saucers, humans and aliens blasting at each other with ray weapons, and mass destruction of detailed miniatures tied together with an infectous score by Akira Ifukube, (inventor of Godzilla's roar) guarantees a fun time. Considering the era, the special effects were pretty good.

 

Hmm... let's see....

Evil Dead movies...

50's "man in a suit monster movies (Creature from the Black lagoon, It! the Terror from Beyond Space, Monster of Piedras Blancas, The She Creature)

Original Godzilla, Kong, Attack of the Giant crab Monsters, Hercules, Xena, I have a whole buncha B movie type favortie things.

I gotta finish off the Poser "Robot Monster n Skully" set I started last year...

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

if sybil danning was co-starring as a valkyrie, how bad could it be? but they hadda obscure the ship so it wouldn't be so obvious it had giant boobs :lol:

I can't believe no ones mentioned Barberella yet.  Those wonderful fashions!  : )

It would be cool to see some of the strange and weird props from these movies modelled for Poser.  That ship with the boobs is a hoot,  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

There are tons of "B" movies that should be required viewing for all movie buffs. Two of my favorites are:

Atragon is a pretty good one. It's worth watching just for the theme music. Japan is under attack by the underwater kingdom of Mu. Atragon, a flying, burrowing submarine saves the day.

Beginning of the End is another great B movie. It's the attack of the giant people eating grasshoppers. The National Guard is called in to battle them to no avail. Leave it to the handsome scientist who uses stereo equipment to lead the grasshoppers to their death. Watching live grasshoppers cavort on a photograph of Chicago as opposed to a miniature is a hoot!

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!! 

My favorite-The Day The Earth Stood Still

How about-Man From Planet X

The Creature From The Black Lagoon

It came from Outer Space

Donavans Brain

Invaders From Mars

Night Of The Lepus

The Brain Eaters

Dracula meets Billy The Kid

 

 

 

Earth Girls Are Easy

The Body Snatchers

The Blob

The Fly

The Incrediable Shrinking Man 

Khai, thanks for setting me straight (and filling in the back story). I think your response has given Gigashadow a more objective synopsis. Looks like I'll have to go back and watch it from the beginning :)

Attack Of The Flying Saucers

Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman

 

Should I go on?

I'm in B Movie heaven!  Or was...

In the last few days the movie channels have shown:

The Fly
Fantastic Voyage
Planet of the Apes
The Body Snatchers

What was the name of that movie about a plant like  a Venus Fly Trap plant that ate people?

"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

Quote - Watching live grasshoppers cavort on a photograph of Chicago as opposed to a miniature is a hoot!

LOL, that reminds me of a movie I watched awhile back. I think it was from the late 70's or maybe early to mid 80's.  Unfortunately I forget the name.  It's about a smaller sized boat that gets caught up in a treturous storm/hurricane.

When the camera panned out the waves looked  taller than an ocean liner, yet when they were showing the crew of the boat clinging to things on the deck, you could tell that someone was standing off camera and throwing the odd pail of water on the boat, and the few people were sitting there seemingly unmoving while the image of the ocean rocked and rolled behind them,  LMAO

I didn't finish watching it because it was just soooo bad. 

"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

What was the name of that movie about a plant like  a Venus Fly Trap plant that ate people?
Little Shoppe OF Horrors

The first one in Black & White

And the color musical remake

Quote - SpaceBalls was the Mel Brooks take on Star Wars....

as for Battle Beyond The Stars....I thought the spaceship looked like a big pair of tits....guess it was my age....

It's not just you.  That model is generally considered the most stacked starship in cinematic history.

The LEXX miniseries here was released on Showtime as a four-parter back in like 1997 as Tales from a Parallel Universe The Dark Zone (with Tim Curry), Eating Pattern (with Rutger Hauger),  I Worship his Shadow and The Gigashadow.  I loved those four....I never really like the LEXX series beyond that much though.  http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115243/

Anyway, my fave B movies are Dr. Caligari http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0097228/

The Dark Backward http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101660/

and the Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/

OF course, as a kid....for some reason...I really liked Class of Nuk'em High http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090849/

--Rebekah--

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

Mine is Zardoz? if you can call a John Boorman movie a b-movie. Then there are the HammerHorrors, the (great!) Redemption series with movies from Jean Rollin etc...I would love to see Barbarella and Flesh Gordon.

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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Star wars is not technically a b-movie it was a hit when it came out and the dvd even had high sales.

Fiend without a face is quite a (unintentionally) funny b movie.

 

I love that good old Jack Arnold sci-fi Movies.

ok been thinking about this and...

Dog Soldiers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/

werewolves. Soldiers. gore. comedy...

brillant movie..

Silent Running.

I've watched it God knows how many times and the ending coupled with the music soundtrack has me in tears every single time. Superb.

btw... Dog Soldiers always reminds me of the line "oooh.. sausages!" :lol:

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..;)

Deep Rising .. now thats a little Gem...

Just saw another one last night I'd forgotten about... Time after Time. Nice little story, well acted and executed.

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

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.

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I've got the Cabinet of Dr Caligari on DVD... with Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

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still trying to work that one out actually....

I heard that a b-movie was one that was put on with the main feature in cinemas, they would show the b-movie first and then the main feature.

 

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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)

I wonder if there's more than one version, the *Cabinet * version I saw was silent (but probably 5.1 channels of it..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

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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 :)

 

I'm pretty fond of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and They Live.

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

-Matt

"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

Along the B Movie line there is also the "B" Televison stuff as well.. here's something I'm working on now....

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

ah..the sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea..;) Resurfaced (pun intended) a little later with some modifications as the ship in Land of the Giants..

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Yup. Plans are to make some morphs and mat changes,  add some additional props like mounted laser guns, the landing gear, the robotic arm, and a dome bubble, and release it as a "sci fi" ship...;)

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Heres one that should B

 

X-men III

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
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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......

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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

 

But do you own the BEACH movies?? ;)

 

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

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...."

Were he alive today, Irwin Allen would be honoured, Gareee.

Or possibly outraged, and demanding royalties.  One never can tell with these Hollywood types.

Thanks, LD. I'm a big LIS, VTTBOTS and Time Tunnel fan.

I've been watching VTTBOTS episodes daily, seeing details I've missed in th eflying sub worth recreating. Damned thing is, they redressed the set for every damned episode!

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

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

Yep, scared the hell out of me way back when I saw it as a kid as well.

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

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.

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Scary Movie 1,2, and 3!!  Totally stupid and lots of T&A -- a real formula for success!!  I haven't seen 4, yet.

Does Valley of Gwangi count as a "B" movie?  I was contemplating a purchase of the DVD today.

Yep, and ANY Harryhausen movie is a worthwhile purchase!

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

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".

Oh, I forgot to mention "Lair of the white worm" , a truly awful b-movie starring Hugh Grant. The acting is appalling, the script is probably unintentionally hilarious and there's gratuitous use of naked nuns.

Utterly utterly terrible.

Needless to say, I've watched it loads of times lol

"white worm" was really groovy IMVHO big laff riot, especially for those with romano-british ancestors :lol: I also just noticed that "beyond the valley of the dolls" is gonna be released on dvd next week.

What about the Vincent Price movies? House of Usher,  The Wax Museum, etc?

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)

I would have mentioned "The Incredible TwoHeaded Transplant", but I forgot all about it!!  More category favorites:

College -- H.O.T.S.

Secret Agent -- Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

Monster -- Mothra