Will I get yelled at if I say Star Wars?
(Edgar G. Ulmers) Detour
I saw this when it was new at a Saturday morning “Kiddie Matinee” and still like watching it when it pops up. The stop-motion animation is great (by Willis O’Brien of King Kong fame) but I giggle during the “monster derails the train” sequence when we have a momentary closeup glimpse of “Lionel” on one of the cars.
Edit to add my contestant for the thread: The Beast From Haunted Cave.
My generations Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles is Angus (1995) and Idle Hands (1999) both of which do not receive the respect I feel earned.
I’ve never seen the film, but when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s I had access to a stack of Mad Magazines from the 70s, one of which did a total send-up of this movie, and I think interested me enough to read the book, which was awful.
It’s just this weird nostalgia memory I have for no reason at all.
This makes me wonder if Better Off Dead (1985) counts.
“I want my two dollars!”
You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgHHHbLx1g at 8 minutes and 42 seconds into that video.
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
It has a couple of scenes that really stand out to me. The mad scientist says he is bad, not because other scientists rejected him but because he is mean.
The scientist humiliates the assistant by having him recite his “code”. “if God wanted me to be treated like a normal person he would have made me look like a normal person, he’d make you look like a regular person.”
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Hannie Caulder (peak Raquel Welch]
Theater of Blood (evil Emma Peel!)
Summertime Killer
Summertime Lovers
The Mechanic (both versions]
From noon to three
Red Sun
Hard Times
Hell, 90% of Charles Bronson’s films were B pictures.
“Night of the Comet” from 1984
B movie perfection
There’s a movie I’ve mentioned here before called Future '38. It claims to be (but isn’t) a lost film from 1938 about someone travelling 80 years into the future. Most of the humor is an oddball mix of what they got right about the future, but not quite. People have smart phones, but still talk to an operator to place a call, that sort of thing. Maybe not a classic B movie subject, but low budget, and makes a lot from a little.
I seem to remember reading once that from the original definition, of a low-budget, quickly made picture, The Thin Man was a B movie. It became a classic and spawned five sequels.
My favorite as well. While it came out in '84, by the time i saw it, I was 7, and it was during the time they were hyping up Halley’s Comet in 19819, so it really suck with me.
Bicentennial man is a good movie to me, even though critics hated it.
Gayniggers from Outer Space is enjoyable just for how absurd it is.
Came in to say They Live.
Can John Carpenter’s Dark Star be considered a B movie, or is it just too good?
Am I the only one who has seen Two on a Guillotine?
Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Virginia Gregg & Cesar Romero in the “Joker” days
I just discovered an interesting movie I haven’t yet seen: Roadie. It appears to have all the hallmarks of “B” movie, and I’m surprised it doesn’t have a cult following given the names of musicians that appear in it (Meat Loaf, Roy Orbison, Debbie Harry). I put it on my “to see” list.
I once saw this, on a Sunday afternoon on German TV in the mid 80s. I liked it enough to remember it now, IIRC it was great fun. That channel sometimes showed such obscure movies, I also saw “Rock And Roll High School” around the same time on that slot.
I haven’t seen it in decades, but I think it definitely qualifies. Indie film, made over the course of several years (initially based on Carpenter’s student film at USC), made for a total budget of around $60,000, then-unknown cast.
It can’t be considered to be a B movie by the original definition of the term, since when it came out in 1974, movie theaters were no longer doing A and B movies. It wasn’t initially a success in movie theaters. It slowly became a cult success in the 1980s and now is considered a masterpiece by some people, including me and what’s his name below:
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).