Favorite "B" Movies

**dookeyXXX** · 07-30-2012, 01:01 PM

Surprised that nobody has mentioned Brain Dead (aka Dead Alive), Peter Jackson's epic low-budget splatter zombie flick.

**bagtagley** · 07-30-2012, 01:11 PM

Kentucky Fried Movie

Student Bodies

**TomCrac** · 07-30-2012, 01:16 PM

Thats what I was looking for System ... lol....

Dead Alive is another one that is so bad its good.

Don't know if "Breaking Away" is considered a B movie (i think of it that way, one of my fav's)
Also "Fandango" had lots of stars but I think of it as a B movie.
Big Wednesday too.

**systemoverblow'd** · 07-30-2012, 01:28 PM

Super Fuzz (But it was an Italian 80's film so who knows)
Piranha
Leprechaun

**iscariot** · 07-30-2012, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

Super Fuzz (But it was an Italian 80's film so who knows)

Fucking love that movie!!! Saw it when I was a kid.

**systemoverblow'd** · 07-30-2012, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by iscariot

Fucking love that movie!!! Saw it when I was a kid.

Just watched the whole thing on YouTube the other week. The death of Ernest Borgnine reminded me of it. It was on HBO so often when I was a kid!!

**dookeyXXX** · 07-30-2012, 08:50 PM

^Starring Terence Hill, lord god actor of many a B-Movie classic and second tier Spaghetti Western:

Mr. Billion

My Name Is Trinity (AKA They Call Me Trinity)

and a host of others.

**OSECS** · 07-30-2012, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

^Starring Terence Hill, lord god actor of many a B-Movie classic and second tier Spaghetti Western:

Mr. Billion

My Name Is Trinity (AKA They Call Me Trinity)

and a host of others.

After Sergio aren't all spaghetti westerns B movies ???

**iscariot** · 07-30-2012, 10:03 PM

The Valley of the Gwangi

**DJ2** · 07-30-2012, 10:32 PM

Gumball Rally
The Limey
It's Alive
Mr Baseball
and as already mentioned, the greatest of all B flicks....
Hot Dog the Movie

**dookeyXXX** · 07-30-2012, 10:46 PM

^Gumball Rally! Love that film. True B-Movie and easily the best of the cross-country car race/chase sub-genre of films.

Sadly, however, I wouldn't consider The Limey a B-Movie. Steven Soderbergh was a full-blown art-house director and indie film darling (sex lies & videotape) who moved slowly into mainstream blockbusters (Ocean's Eleven). Soderbergh is very similar to Tarantino in that his early post-sl&v movies (The Underneath, The Limey) were highly influenced by low-budget noir and British gangster films, but again his keen eye, solid direction, excellent production values, and above all scripts and casting elevated any/all of them way above B-Move status (to wit, they mostly played in small art-houses in major cities and college towns, not drive-ins).

I'm also quite surprised that nobody has brought up such seminal B-Movies as:

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Two Thousand Maniacs

As for another personal favorite of mine:

Re-Animator

**bagtagley** · 07-31-2012, 07:08 AM

Fuckin' good call on Superfuzz. A buddy and I still quote that movie.

**schindlerpiste** · 07-31-2012, 08:12 AM

Can't believe that no one has mentioned Super Troopers.

**Meathelmet** · 08-01-2012, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

I'm also quite surprised that nobody has brought up such seminal B-Movies as:

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Two Thousand Maniacs

As for another personal favorite of mine:

Re-Animator

Dude, you have a bad taste (pun intended)!

I had a shitload of b-flicks when I was younger... dozens of really obscure flicks on vhs..

What else..

Tetsuo
Barbarella
Suspiria
Ilsa Shewolf of SS
Texas chainsaw massacre
The Fly
Mad Max
Zardoz

Hmm...wheres the tapes..

PB · 08-01-2012, 04:05 PM

Attack of the killer shrews.

**meatdrink9** · 08-01-2012, 10:33 PM

Better off Dead?
Big Trouble in Little China?

**Supermoon** · 08-01-2012, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

Better off Dead?
Big Trouble in Little China?

Or Showdown in Little Tokyo. Dolf Lundgren and Tia Carrera. Good shit there.

**systemoverblow'd** · 08-02-2012, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by meatdrink9

Big Trouble in Little China?

Certainly not a B-movie.

**Tippster** · 08-02-2012, 02:24 PM

Technically Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" is a B-movie.

**OSECS** · 08-02-2012, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

Technically Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" is a B-movie.

Always loved that movie. But Charlton Heston in a B movie ??

**Meathelmet** · 08-02-2012, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

Technically Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" is a B-movie.

Nope. You wanna wrestle? Behind the 7-11, 1 gallon of strawberry yello+ you and me.

**Tippster** · 08-02-2012, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

Nope. You wanna wrestle? Behind the 7-11, 1 gallon of strawberry yello+ you and me.

Heh. It's my favorite film. It was, however, shat upon by Universal and released as a B-Movie:

Welles wrapped production on time, delivered a rough cut to Universal, and was convinced that his Hollywood career was back on the rails. However, the film was then re-edited (and in part re-shot) by Universal International pictures. The editing process was protracted and disputed, and the version eventually released was not the film Universal or Welles had hoped for. It was released as a B-movie, the lower half of a double feature. The A-movie was The Female Animal, starring Hedy Lamarr, produced by Albert Zugsmith and directed by Harry Keller, whom the studio had hired to direct the re-shot material in Touch of Evil. The two films even had the same cameraman, Russell Metty. Welles's film was given little publicity despite the many stars in the cast. Though it had little commercial success in the US, it was well received in Europe, particularly by critics like future filmmaker François Truffaut.