B Movies

[QueenBex]

What is your favourite B movie of all time?

Attack of The Killer Tomatoes? It Came From Outer Space? The Blob? The Fly? The Creature From The Black Lagoon?

[MeiTow]

Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Speaking of B Movies...roommate informed me earlier today that Netflix has a movie called Big Ass Spider. Seemed appropriate for this thread. lol

[rockinwithrammstein]

Oh man, this is my kind of topic lol I * love B movies! If I had to name a favorite, The Stuff comes to mind. My top five after that are The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Reanimator, Surf * Must Die, Repo! the Genetic Opera, and The Fly.

[Batboard]

My opinion of what a B movies is might be different, but some are Maximum Overdrive, Return of the living dead, CHUD, some people might consider The Stand to be a B movie, but its one of my favorites of all time.

[lcockitt]

I'm definitley going to look up Surf * Must Die... Thanks RWR!

I love Rocky Horror Picture Show, and really enjoyed Repo! The Genetic Opera. Sadly my bf doesn't share my passion for awful movies, so I don't watch them as much as I'd like to anymore!

Anyone seen Sharknado 2? I've got it recorded but haven't had chance to sit and watch it yet.

[blackmageheart]

Ooh I've always loved The Abominable Dr Phibes, and pretty much anything with Vincent Price in! Also, Night of the Living Dead is an all-time favourite.

[cirestan]

Back in the day TNT would run movie marathons and occasionally they'd run the old Hammer Studio film catalogue.
I got hooked on all the old Frankenstein movies starring Peter Cushing. From there I started watching a lot of Vincent Price.

A couple years ago I found on Woot.com a collection of 50 "Classic" Horror movies, which I 've been working my way through.
Some stuff is really obscure, but I've been able to see where a lot of modern directors and writers got their inspiration, and a number of times I have been able to watch "originals" back-to-back with their remakes, which is a really cool experience.

Best moment from those movies was Jack Nicholson's first headline movie ever, 1963's "The Terror" starring with Boris Karloff, he's in the crypt trying to rescue this girl and the whole estate is falling down around him. Giant stones from the walls and ceiling are falling and the crypt is filling with water. The rocks float. LOL. AWESOME.

[RMDC]

Giant stones from the walls and ceiling are falling and the crypt is filling with water. The rocks float. LOL. AWESOME.

Did it break your immersion? I hope such glaring errors didn't sink your spirits. But you have to give those B-movie directors credit - they often had a boulder take on film than their predecessors.

[cirestan]

I won't hand out demerits for the callous use of puns... this time.

Errors and cheap work arounds never dampen the value of a good B-Movie. In fact they make them better.
Look at the "classic", "The Last Woman on Earth".
Basically the story starts off with these two men and a woman scuba diving. Something happens, and everyone on Earth disappears. (I think it was that all the Oxygen on Earth disappeared for 30 minutes, but there were no bodies). The only reason these 3 people survived is because they were underwater. (Because obviously they were the ONLY 3 people in the world underwater, and 12-30 feet of water is enough to protect you from a globally genocidal holocaust.)
Well, the whole premise was to set up a crappy scenario where these two men fight over the woman. LOL.