Brown Jenkin
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Barbarella - The greatest B movie of all time.
[OT] Good Bad B Movies
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Andrew D. Gable
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Definitely NOT any Japanese film containing the word "Frankenstein".
But seriously...a big fan of 50s/60s low-budget horror here.
The Alligator People...doctor in Everglades experiments with reptilian DNA and makes some monsters
Attack of the Crab Monsters...giant crabs. And features a young actor named Jack Nicholson. And directed by Roger Corman! Wow.
Them!...giant ants in the LA sewers. Need I say more?
Invasion of the Saucermen...hey! aliens who make it look like any witness to them is drunk! ya gotta love it!
The Reptile...weresnake kills people
Day of the Triffids...giant plants menace a bunch of blind Brits
The Horror At Party Beach...fish people regenerate from drowned sailors and menace some surfers
Plan 9 From Outer Space...Bela Lugosi died in the middle of this one
Robot Monster...budget was $600
Bug...OK, its the 70s. Starts out about pyromaniac beetle/grub things and turns into a really weird drug-induced thing about hyperintelligent insects.
The Incredible Melting Man...yeah, 'nuff said.
Basically...track down anything directed by Roger Corman or William Castle. Both did some really bad movies, but which were halfway good in a way. Corman was responsible for the series of "Poe" movies starring Vincent Price (The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Haunted Palace) which bore virtually no resemblance to the relevant Poe story or poem. The Haunted Palace, frex, being more closely based on HPL's Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
But seriously...a big fan of 50s/60s low-budget horror here.
The Alligator People...doctor in Everglades experiments with reptilian DNA and makes some monsters
Attack of the Crab Monsters...giant crabs. And features a young actor named Jack Nicholson. And directed by Roger Corman! Wow.
Them!...giant ants in the LA sewers. Need I say more?
Invasion of the Saucermen...hey! aliens who make it look like any witness to them is drunk! ya gotta love it!
The Reptile...weresnake kills people
Day of the Triffids...giant plants menace a bunch of blind Brits
The Horror At Party Beach...fish people regenerate from drowned sailors and menace some surfers
Plan 9 From Outer Space...Bela Lugosi died in the middle of this one
Robot Monster...budget was $600
Bug...OK, its the 70s. Starts out about pyromaniac beetle/grub things and turns into a really weird drug-induced thing about hyperintelligent insects.
The Incredible Melting Man...yeah, 'nuff said.
Basically...track down anything directed by Roger Corman or William Castle. Both did some really bad movies, but which were halfway good in a way. Corman was responsible for the series of "Poe" movies starring Vincent Price (The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Haunted Palace) which bore virtually no resemblance to the relevant Poe story or poem. The Haunted Palace, frex, being more closely based on HPL's Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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Mark Chance
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Drayan said:
That's Night of the Lepus.
Add to the list of giant animal movies the horrendously delightful Food of the Gods series. There was also an amazingly bad killer spider movie starring William Shatner. I forget the name, but don't "amazingly bad" and "William Shatner" just kinda go together?
Edited stupid typo pointed out by another poster. Grr.
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Andrew D. Gable
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Actually, neither. It's Night of the Lepus. Lupus would be "Night of the Wolf"...sounds good, actually.
BTW, the Shatner flick was Kingdom of the Spiders.
Alas, Food of the Gods...such a good HG Wells book sadly ruined. Food of the Gods also being the handiwork of another "iconic" bad movie maker...can't recall his name. Howard something?
BTW, the Shatner flick was Kingdom of the Spiders.
Alas, Food of the Gods...such a good HG Wells book sadly ruined. Food of the Gods also being the handiwork of another "iconic" bad movie maker...can't recall his name. Howard something?
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Viking Bastard
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Ok, I'll give you Night of the Living Dead, I kinda guess it mightdiaglo said:
be seen as a B-movie if you look at it from the right angle, but
Clerks? Cheap, sure. Indie, definately. But that does not make a
movie a B-movie. It's the attitude!
s/LaSH
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There are two B-grade Peter Jackson films I know of, from back in the 80s. Now these are the local names, they might have been changed overseas.
Brain Dead - zombie move I haven't seen, but I'm told at one point they use a lawn mower as an offensive weapon. And they TURNED IT INTO A STAGE PLAY a couple of years ago.
Bad Taste - Special forces versus aliens. Only considerably more Kiwi than that. A sheep gets hit with a bazooka. Classy.
I'll second the Evil Dead trilogy, and Barbarella... well, that's just weird. Why is there a half-naked woman hanging off the ceiling? What is she staring at? I don't know, and nobody else bothers to ask.
And if you don't care at how badly they butchered the mythos, there's Mortal Kombat Anihilation. Laughably crap. Liu Kang's hair will go 'swish' even in a vacuum, I'll stake my life on it. That movie was horrible!
There's Hercules Returns, an Australian film about an Italian film (see, there's this poor theater, and on their opening night they discover that their film hasn't been dubbed, so they do all the dubbing themselves. Utterly hilarious. Lots of big muscle men who occasionally fight. "I'll fight you, on the condition that you lower your nipples." Other guy unclenches his pectorals one by one. Very funny.)
And because nobody else has mentioned it, you've got Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. The movie they do (This Island Earth) was bad enough, but the commentary is just bizarre.
But MST3K:TM was made even better when I overtaped it with episodes of Digimon, and our VCR broke down, letting the sound from MST leak through on occasion. The synchrony was eerie, folks. "Look out, Tinkerbelle's going down!" echoes in the background as bizarre digital fairy lights shoot into a chasm. "Just like we left it - with the USA in charge!" "Don't say things like that, Jeri!" (Dialogue from background and foreground, respectively.) Dramatic digivolution sequence. Someone gasps, "Sakuyamon!" Background chips in with "...came out of the west to fight the Amazing Rando!"
A freak of nature that cannot be replicated, but was strangely compelling...
Brain Dead - zombie move I haven't seen, but I'm told at one point they use a lawn mower as an offensive weapon. And they TURNED IT INTO A STAGE PLAY a couple of years ago.
Bad Taste - Special forces versus aliens. Only considerably more Kiwi than that. A sheep gets hit with a bazooka. Classy.
I'll second the Evil Dead trilogy, and Barbarella... well, that's just weird. Why is there a half-naked woman hanging off the ceiling? What is she staring at? I don't know, and nobody else bothers to ask.
And if you don't care at how badly they butchered the mythos, there's Mortal Kombat Anihilation. Laughably crap. Liu Kang's hair will go 'swish' even in a vacuum, I'll stake my life on it. That movie was horrible!
There's Hercules Returns, an Australian film about an Italian film (see, there's this poor theater, and on their opening night they discover that their film hasn't been dubbed, so they do all the dubbing themselves. Utterly hilarious. Lots of big muscle men who occasionally fight. "I'll fight you, on the condition that you lower your nipples." Other guy unclenches his pectorals one by one. Very funny.)
And because nobody else has mentioned it, you've got Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. The movie they do (This Island Earth) was bad enough, but the commentary is just bizarre.
But MST3K:TM was made even better when I overtaped it with episodes of Digimon, and our VCR broke down, letting the sound from MST leak through on occasion. The synchrony was eerie, folks. "Look out, Tinkerbelle's going down!" echoes in the background as bizarre digital fairy lights shoot into a chasm. "Just like we left it - with the USA in charge!" "Don't say things like that, Jeri!" (Dialogue from background and foreground, respectively.) Dramatic digivolution sequence. Someone gasps, "Sakuyamon!" Background chips in with "...came out of the west to fight the Amazing Rando!"
A freak of nature that cannot be replicated, but was strangely compelling...
Black Omega
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I'm biased, but I'm a big Barbarella fan. Great cheesy fun, and the bad guy even inspired the name for the band Duran Duran.
Aside from that ,many of the 70's Godzilla movies are also good, cheap, goofy fun. Godzilla v. Hedorah (Smog Monster) is especially weird fun.
Aside from that ,many of the 70's Godzilla movies are also good, cheap, goofy fun. Godzilla v. Hedorah (Smog Monster) is especially weird fun.
Harp
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I'm a sucker for The Legend of Boggy Creek, a docu-drama about the Fouke Monster, a Bigfoot-like creature in the swamps of southwestern Arkansas. I can watch it today, as a 34-year old adult, and still have the bejeezus scared out of me. Musta been the trauma from the original viewing...
A reasonable review can be found at IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068837).
A reasonable review can be found at IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068837).
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