# What is your favourite “B-movie”?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [June 11, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489 "2025-06-11T19:38:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/141 "2025-06-20T16:03:10Z")
The first movie I saw that wasn’t a kid’s movie was Asylum. It was a horror anthology movie. It had four different stories. Maybe I was too young for that, but for a long time I kept thinking of different scenes from the movie for a long time. Not too long ago I watched it again. It wasn’t as good as I remembered.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/142 "2025-06-21T03:31:44Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Can John Carpenter’s _ **Dark Star** _ be considered a B movie, or is it just too good?
I think there are separate categories here that sometimes overlap:
Cult Movies, and B-Movies.
Just realized that, since my first reaction was “Dark Star! Yay! A cult classic!”
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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I’d also argue that it’s better than a “B” movie
I’ve been reading this and _almost_ posting one of my faves, but realizing it’s too good.
So I want a thread titled “What is your favourite B+ movie?”
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/143 "2025-06-21T03:49:23Z")
_Night of the Lepus_ – very loosely based on the novel _The Year of the Angry Rabbit_.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/144 "2025-06-21T19:27:47Z")
Bunny rabbit.
Wild rabbits possibly could be scary, but the rabbits in _Night of the Lepus_ were chubby, fluffy-- _well-groomed_– pet bunnies.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/145 "2025-06-21T20:34:58Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> I think **Dark Star** is more of a work sample or portfolio for a couple film makers trying to break into the business. I don’t think the primary purpose was to turn a profit (which it didn’t until it achieved cult status).
Yes,
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> It can’t be considered to be a B movie by the original definition of the term,
WW is correct her. Altho certainly low budget, it was not designed to be shown as a B movie.
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/146 "2025-06-21T23:36:38Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Wild rabbits possibly could be scary, but the rabbits in _Night of the Lepus_ were chubby, fluffy-- _well-groomed_– pet bunnies.
I loved the book. No interest in ever seeing the movie.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/147 "2025-06-21T23:42:18Z")
It was a little like an invasion of chonks, who could be stopped as long as you put a window with a sunbeam between you and them. Or distracted them with a feather on a stick.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/148 "2025-06-22T16:07:57Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Wild rabbits possibly could be scary, but the rabbits in _Night of the Lepus_ were chubby, fluffy-- _well-groomed_– pet bunnies.
According to a friend, she was in a birthing suite with a TV that no one thought to turn off. Yes, she was watching _Night of the Lepus_ while giving birth.
The child appears normal, but I’m just waiting for some weird _Donny Darko_ manifestations…
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/149 "2025-06-22T16:10:08Z")
Not like those fearsome C.H.U.D.S.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/150 "2025-06-24T19:16:58Z")
Does anybody remember a 1981 movie called _ **Wolfen** _? I loved the detective part of it. He was investigating a series of murders in NYC. Pretty good werewolf movie that was a bomb at the box office, coming between _The Howling_ and _An American Werewolf in London_.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/151 "2025-06-24T23:03:11Z")
**Wolfen** was just short of excellent. The photography was innovative and it had Albert Finney.
Another Finney film was **Looker** , written and directed by Michael Crichton. Co-starring Susan Dey and James Coburn. Worth a look, if you can find it.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/152 "2025-06-25T02:38:52Z")
My first impulse was to go with **Tremors** , but since that’s been declared not B enough, I’ll select **The Rocky Horror Picture Show.**
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### Author:  [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/153 "2025-06-25T06:35:59Z")
> [@Rebo](#):
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> Does anybody remember a 1981 movie called _ **Wolfen** _? I loved the detective part of it. He was investigating a series of murders in NYC. Pretty good werewolf movie that was a bomb at the box office, coming between _The Howling_ and _An American Werewolf in London_.
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> **Wolfen** was just short of excellent. The photography was innovative and it had Albert Finney.
Thirded.
I had a kind of fascination for this movie when I was a kid because it was on TV often, yet I was not allowed to see it because, well, it was a horror movie and it was usually broadcast late at night. All I knew about it was the synopsis and a couple of pictures from TV magazines, but that was enough to draw my interest.
I finally saw it some twenty years ago, and while I can’t say it’s one of my favourite horror movies ever, I was very impressed with the general mood. Long shots of derelict buildings - whole neighbourhoods in ruins actually - slow pace, vague sense of an ease. Very well done.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/154 "2025-06-25T06:41:43Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> Harold and Maude
I really would not classify _Harold and Maude_ as a B-movie. But, as others have noted, it is a subjective call. One of my all-time favorite movies.
_Repo Man_ (which you also mentioned) is one of the best ever B-movies IMO.
I’ll add _The Toxic Avenger_ to this list. SUPER violent and shocking but somehow it works as long as you are a long way from easily offended.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/155 "2025-06-25T15:47:35Z")
Part of what I considered B-movies is whatever Morse included in his _Video Trash and Treasures_ books. (Goodreads 4.3/5). He could not resist adding a couple “movies that deserve wider audiences”.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/156 "2025-06-25T19:07:38Z")
It’s not a B movie until Joe Bob says check it out.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/157 "2025-06-29T12:56:43Z")
Really? **_No_ one else** has seen _Two on a Guillotine_?
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/158 "2025-06-29T13:32:58Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> **_No_ one else** has seen _Two on a Guillotine_?
I had to check Wikipedia to make sure, but that film was scored by multi-Oscar winner Max Steiner.who is quoted saying, "it wasn’t a picture, it was an abortion.”. Another hilarious quote in that article is by lead actress Connie Stevens: "I thought the script was stupid when I read it but I came away thinking, ‘yeah, it could have happened.’ “
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/159 "2025-06-29T14:22:36Z")
I am **shocked** SHOCKED! I tell you, that Steiner scored it. He must have wanted to do just _something_, quickly, to get out of a two-picture contract. That’s how a lot of bankable stars end up in what would otherwise be B pictures.
_Two on a Guillotine_ had a contrived plot with a catalogued device (“wacky will”) to get attractive, interesting, otherwise strangers to spend a few nights together in an old, creepy, aka “haunted” house. It had a mysterious death in the long past, that _might_ be a murder to be solved. or just might be a tragedy in the past of our beautiful protagonist-- an _orphan_ no less-- who is also currently a damsel in distress.
It also had a magician, and lots of his props popping up in odd ways, a bitter, former employee who might be a threat (and was played by Norman Bates’ mother’s voice).
All you need is a pet, and a love interest-- hey! it has those too! In B&W, looking like the details of the script were deliberately crafted to make use of old sets and costumes that were already available.
And it was campy-- in the original sense-- the actors looked like they were having fun, without an eye to the end product.
I was 11, and only recently allowed to stay up as late as I liked on non-school nights the first time I saw it. It was pure gold.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-b-movie/1019489/160 "2025-06-29T15:05:35Z")
For some reason, I thought it was a Disney picture.
TIL: Directed by William “Cannon” Conrad.
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