Favorite B-Movies

[2535Miles]

Anyone else a fan of B-Movies? What are some of your favorites? In no particular order:
Hardware Wars
Porklips Now
Midnight Madness
The Nail Gun Massacre

[knights68]

night of the comet
the fly
Big trouble in little China

[2535Miles]

night of the comet
the fly
Big trouble in little China
Great ones! I just bought Big Trouble In Little China and Night of the Comet! When I was a kid, Night of the Comet scared me. I was so afraid of turning into a pile of red powder.

[OldPhiKap]

Bubba Ho-Tep
Brother From Another Planet
Hollywood Shuffle
Don Juan De Marco

[Cavlaw]

Army of Darkness.
Krull.
Six-String Samurai.

[billybreen]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii

[2535Miles]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Wow. I had never heard of this one. Just saw the trailer on YouTube. Thank you, thank you very much.

[Lord Ash]

Does "They Live" count? I figure any movie that stars Rowdy Roddy Piper and Louis Gosset Jr. HAS to be a B Movie, AT BEST. Possibly a C+ movie even.

[billybreen]

Wow. I had never heard of this one. Just saw the trailer on YouTube. Thank you, thank you very much.

They showed that about 100 times on late night Showtime/Cinemax during my childhood, probably explaining my immature attitudes towards women, rocket launchers, and toilet snakes.

[HaveFunExpectToWin]

night of the comet
the fly
Big trouble in little China

Is is just me or does 'Night of the Comet' really come up a lot in conversation?

Weird.

[OldPhiKap]

I haven't heard any feedback on my listing of Bubba Ho-Tep, so maybe no one has seen it. Do yourself a favor over the holiday and crank it up. Bruce Campbell at his best.

[billybreen]

I haven't heard any feedback on my listing of Bubba Ho-Tep, so maybe no one has seen it. Do yourself a favor over the holiday and crank it up. Bruce Campbell at his best.

I've seen it. It's good. A bit too good. I consider it more of a tongue-in-cheek homage to the genre as opposed to the unabashed muck-wallowing of Hard Ticket.

[OldPhiKap]

I've seen it. It's good. A bit too good. I consider it more of a tongue-in-cheek homage to the genre as opposed to the unabashed muck-wallowing of Hard Ticket.

I haven't seen HT but will have to check it out. OPK

[hc5duke]

I have never heard of any of these movies, weirdos...

[2535Miles]

I haven't heard any feedback on my listing of Bubba Ho-Tep, so maybe no one has seen it. Do yourself a favor over the holiday and crank it up. Bruce Campbell at his best.
It was great. Campbell is one of my hero's. I bought "If Chins Could Kill" and then someone borrowed it before I could read it. This makes me mad.

[2535Miles]

Does "They Live" count? I figure any movie that stars Rowdy Roddy Piper and Louis Gosset Jr. HAS to be a B Movie, AT BEST. Possibly a C+ movie even.
Definitely. I think it's safe to say that the B distinction includes all those movies in lower grades as well.

[dukemomLA]

Creature from the Black Lagoon
Killer Clowns from Outer Space

Bring friends and popcorn.

[billybreen]

Killer Clowns from Outer Space

Ruined my childhood. That's 'Killer Klowns,' though.

Ph34r!!!!!!

http://www.amysmusings.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/blogger/3721/532/1600/killerklowns3.jpg

[Deslok]

Well, in the really bad category, I don't really know any of the names of them, but as an insomniac, how about all the really bad movies that USA network used to show starting at midnight or so, hosted by Gilbery Gottfried. Some really amazing badness.

But to name a few from my youth(not that some of these are actually any good, but I have fond memories of them from the days when I lacked something called... taste):
Beastmaster
Gymkata
Solarbabies
The Toxic Avenger
The Wraith

and then there is the king of all B-movies... cue Queen music....


Flash Gordon!

[2535Miles]

Beastmaster
The Wraith

These two go on my all-time home sick list. They were always on HBO (as was Midnight Madness) when I stayed home from school. I'm not sure, but The Wraith had to be some of Sheen's best work. He wore a helmet most of the movie and had very few speaking lines. Oh yeah, and Ron Howard's brother is in that movie; he's the nerdy mechanic guy.
Great adds.

[2535Miles]

Creature from the Black Lagoon
Killer Clowns from Outer Space
Bring friends and popcorn.
Ha, these are great. Creature is a classic!


Ruined my childhood.http://www.amysmusings.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/blogger/3721/532/1600/killerklowns3.jpg
Ruined my sick day.:)

[Rich]

RepoMan
Early Sam Raimi flicks such as the Evil Dead and Darkman series

[A-Tex Devil]

Does "They Live" count? I figure any movie that stars Rowdy Roddy Piper and Louis Gosset Jr. HAS to be a B Movie, AT BEST. Possibly a C+ movie even.

Except it's Keith David, not Louis Gosset, Jr. I was under the same false impression for going on 20 years until I saw the movie again recently.

South Park trivia -- did you know the "cripple fight" between Jimmy and Timmy was staged after the ridicukously long fite between Piper and David in They Live?

Anyone seen Boondock Saints? Is that a B Movie or an Independent film?

[billybreen]

Dead Alive is fantastic. Pre-LOTR Peter Jackson. Zombies are destroyed by a lawnmower. Good stuff.

[2535Miles]

Dead Alive is fantastic. Pre-LOTR Peter Jackson. Zombies are destroyed by a lawnmower. Good stuff.
Dead Alive is delightfully gory and it has a rat-monkey. I can't believe I forgot about this one.

[billybreen]

Dead Alive is delightfully gory and it has a rat-monkey. I can't believe I forgot about this one.

Not just any rat monkey, a Sumatran Rat Monkey.

[2535Miles]

Not just any rat monkey, a Sumatran Rat Monkey.
Ha! That's right.

For those of you who haven't seen this movie, and are fans of the Zombie genre, this is a must see. And even if you're not a fan of Zombie movies, I still think you need to add this to your list.

Mmmm, porridge.

[g_olaf]

night of the comet
the fly
Big trouble in little China

Big Trouble in Little China was not a B movie... it is one of the finest works of cinema ever made. It made AFI's top 100 list, didn't it?

Kurt Russell rules.

[2535Miles]

Big Trouble in Little China was not a B movie... it is one of the finest works of cinema ever made. It made AFI's top 100 list, didn't it?
Kurt Russell rules.
Kurt Russell does rule, and I think you're right. While technically not a B movie, it's still a great cult classic.

[fadero]

two under the radar cowboy movies

The Revengers with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine

Valdez is comming Burt Lancaster.... enough said

[devildeac]

Swampthing

[knights68]

Big Trouble in Little China was not a B movie
A "B-movie" is defined as being made on the cheap and not doing well at the Box Office.
"Big Trouble" was not a "B" by such a definition but it didn't do great at the BO either.

How about "From Dusk 'til Dawn"? Now THAT was a "B" and didn't do well at the BO but is a cult classic, as is Night of the Comet.

I noticed no one mentioned the classics such as The Blob, Attack of the killer Tomatoes, Leprachaun, The Gate, Silver Bullet and the of course, Howard the Duck.

[bhop22]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii


Hard Ticket to Hawaii was just one of a series of movies about the girls of Molokai cargo. Erik Estrada was a villian in one of them. Is it bad that I know that much info.
Also who could forget the Toxic Avenger.

[billybreen]

Hard Ticket to Hawaii was just one of a series of movies about the girls of Molokai cargo. Erik Estrada was a villian in one of them. Is it bad that I know that much info.

I would argue it's the finest of the set. Toilet snakes, Rowdy, rocket launchers blowing up dorks on skateboards (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z42gIlLgR5U). Best movie ever.

[dukemomLA]

This goes back aways, but has anyone else ever seen Putney Swope?

[Stray Gator]

This goes back aways, but has anyone else ever seen Putney Swope?

Yep. Saw it in NYC when it was just released--must have been sometime between 1969-71, while I was living up there. It was sort of on the fringe but pretty funny at the time--I especially liked the new cereal commercial he came up with in the movie.

[blazindw]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space - classic
Leonard Part 6 - one of my favorite Bill Cosby movies ever
Big Trouble in Little China - I'll count it - best B-movie ever

[Highlander]

I haven't heard any feedback on my listing of Bubba Ho-Tep, so maybe no one has seen it. Do yourself a favor over the holiday and crank it up. Bruce Campbell at his best.

Watched it, but it took me 3 sittings to get through it because I kept falling asleep. Not a ringing endorsement in my book.

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