# What is your favourite “B-movie”?
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**Category:** Cafe Society
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**Created:** [June 11, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489 "2025-06-11T19:38:51Z")
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/1 "2025-06-11T19:38:51Z")
Something does not need to have any redeeming qualities to strike your fancy and be worth watching more than once. Junk food is more popular than bean salad.
**So what is your favourite “B-movie”, defined as you wish?**. A guilty or indulgent pleasure, a hidden gem, maybe a ludicrously exploitative or plotless pastiche you have seen more than once (though not necessarily recently) but can’t turn your head away from?
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/2 "2025-06-11T19:44:35Z")
I loved _Amazon Women On The Moon_. Great humour, amazing cast, _sui generis_ and with enough of a passable parody of a B-movie that you are forgiven for thinking that it does not really meet the criterion. Still, it only gets 60% on Rotten Tomaters, and it does feature Sybil Danning.
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### Author:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/3 "2025-06-11T19:52:00Z")
The 1982 film _The Beastmaster_ with Marc Singer and Rip Torn.
When I was a child in the 80s it was shown so often on HBO that people joked that HBO stood for “Hey, Beastmaster’s On”. There was a similar joke about TBS that TBS stood for “The Beastmaster Station” because they aired it constantly as well.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/4 "2025-06-11T20:02:37Z")
I’m a sucker for any of AIP’s Beach Party movies. The jokes and romance are lame, but the music and dancing is always a gas. When I was a kid, those films were the only place I could see “live” performances by Dick Dale, Little Stevie Wonder, The Pyramids, or The Beach Boys.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/5 "2025-06-11T23:43:29Z")
Video Pirate (commenting on the FBI warning): “Oh, I’m soooo scaaaaared.”
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/6 "2025-06-11T23:51:55Z")
Beach party movies are cool, but I have a thing for cheesy SF flicks like _ **Journey to the Seventh Planet** _ and _ **Zontar, the Thing from Venus** _. Toho productions with American “guest stars” like Nick Adams and Raymond Burr hold a special place in my heart.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/7 "2025-06-11T23:54:06Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> A guilty or indulgent pleasure, a hidden gem, maybe a ludicrously exploitative or plotless pastiche you have seen more than once
My all-time favorite superhero movie: _Zorro, The Gay Blade!_
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/8 "2025-06-11T23:55:40Z")
> [@dorvann](#):
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> _The Beastmaster_
The cable TV watcher’s prayer: “Oh Lord, please don’t let it be Beastmaster again!”
My choice, _Vanishing Point_, or maybe _Dirty Mary Crazy Larry_.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/9 "2025-06-11T23:58:33Z")
On the other hand, you really can’t beat gems like _ **Billy the Kid vs. Dracula** _, _ **Plan 9 from Outer Space** _, and _ **They Saved Hitler’s Brain** _.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/10 "2025-06-11T23:59:06Z")
I realized that I just haven’t seen (or, at least, am able to remember) many B-movies. I’ll go with _Kentucky Fried Movie_ – the first film by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team, and directed by a young John Landis – with the caveats that (a) I haven’t seen it in years, so I don’t know how well it has held up, and (b) I fully recognize that it’s exceptionally politically incorrect by today’s standards.
But, when I was in college, and just after, it was definitely a guilty pleasure, and hilarious as hell.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/11 "2025-06-11T23:59:40Z")
Not counting ones that only qualify due to Riffed versions…
Probably Dead Alive by Peter Jackson, though while it’s absolutely a B-Movie, it’s quality of doing a lot with a little kind of transcends that. Similarly, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, but they aren’t always defined as B movies, which is a fuzzy category.
I -enjoy- the Evil Dead movies more, but they’re slightly compromised by not fully playing it “straight” the way Dead Alive mostly does.
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### Author:  [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/12 "2025-06-12T00:07:28Z")
_They Live_ - stands up very well in relevance, fight sequences, tongueness-in-cheek, and plenty of reasons to re-watch it periodically.
Since director John Carpenter was already known for _The Thing_ and _Big Trouble in Little China_ [another B fave and contender], its probably more of an off-kilter A Movie, given a B for subject matter.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/13 "2025-06-12T00:08:36Z")
**The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra**
Spoof of B-horror/SF movies. Quite funny.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/14 "2025-06-12T00:10:43Z")
One of my biggest guilty pleasure movies is _The Cutting Edge,_ a 90s rom-com where an uptight ice queen figure skater is forced to work with a lowly hockey player.
It’s got some great banter, good chemistry between the leads, and features some classic tropes. I’m a sucker for love that transcends class boundaries.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/15 "2025-06-12T00:12:38Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> One of my biggest guilty pleasure movies is _The Cutting Edge,_ a 90s rom-com where an uptight ice queen figure skater is forced to work with a lowly hockey player.
“Toe pick!” \<3
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/16 "2025-06-12T00:22:55Z")
**The Brain That Wouldn’t Die** (1962)
I think it’s worse than **Plan 9… .** , but I love it.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/17 "2025-06-12T00:24:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> My choice, _Vanishing Point_, or maybe _Dirty Mary Crazy Larry_.
Let’s add _Two Lane Blacktop_ for the trifecta.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/18 "2025-06-12T00:27:21Z")
Just one? Oh, okay, I’ll pick [Dinosaurus!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053768/) A young boy befriends a caveman and they ride a brontosaurus. And a T-Rex battles a steam shovel. What more could anyone want?
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/19 "2025-06-12T00:45:55Z")
**Killer Klowns from Outer Space** (1988)
Homicidal alien clowns descend in a flying circus tent to turn humans into cotton candy. It’s absurd, creepy, and hilariously inventive—what’s not to love?
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/20 "2025-06-12T01:00:46Z")
I remember _They Live_ mainly because it starred “Rowdy Roddy Piper”. So how could it possibly be a terrible movie?
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