The heck with the famous movies. What about really good B rated movies?

[Baitball Blogger]

Attack the Block
Tremors

[RiffRandell]

1. I love Tremors!

I watch whenever it's on.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. I paraphrase:

Do you get the feeling we tried to leave one day too late?

They're not local boys.

I guess we'll have to apologize to Bert for making fun of his way of living.

Broke into the dern gum wrong rec room!

[dimbear]

2. Attack of the Mushroom People, also called Matanga--

don't see that nearly often enough nowadays. Fits in well with the nuclear situation over there in Japan.

[pipi_k]

3. These are probably

not even worthy of being called B Grade movies, but....


The Killer Shrews

Frogs

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

House and House II

Puppetmaster

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Probably ranks with Island of Terror.

God, when I think how that movie scared the shit out of me and the monsters looked liked giant turtle shells that moved along like snails. They had a noodle neck that would slink out of the shell to bite you.

Salt water eventually killed them. Of course, what was the dead give away? They moved along like snails.

[pipi_k]

47. Hah! That sounds like

me the first time I saw "The Killer Shrews" as a child

I was absolutely terrified!

Years later, the funny-factor jumped out at me when I learned that the "shrews" were actually dogs dressed up as shrews.

Probably border collies or something

[raccoon]

30. Add: Shock Waves. a ZOMBIE flick, yall! Really creeped me out. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

46. I can't believe there's a Zombie movie I haven't heard of.

[Archae]

4. How about the grade-Z movies on "SyFy?"

"Sharktopus!"

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Don't defile this thread!

[Iggo]

5. Night Of The Comet.

We do NOT cross against the LIGHT!

[peacefreak]

7. +1!!!!!

"Daddy would have bought us an Uzi".

[ohiosmith]

6. All the great Hammer films in the sixties.

[HopeHoops]

9. You mean like "Bedtime for Bonzo"?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. You people are hopeless!

[HopeHoops]

25. Don't worry. I've never seen that one.

[CBGLuthier]

12. Starcrash

Roger Corman's test film for the SF market and it is available on netflix instant.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. I just saw the Black Hole with Yvette Mimieux

I thought I was going to die because they shot the scene of the space shuttle moving into the black hole in real time as if the space shuttle had no jet propulsion. I tuned in and out of the movie, and only when I came to the end and so the shot of the fiery robot inspired hell scene did I realize it was a classic.

[petronius]

37. I tried that one a few days ago - just couldn't get through it

However, I did make it all the way through Galaxy of Terror...

[LynneSin]

13. Ski School

About once every couple of months its a free movie with my On-Demand movie section and I will watch it some day I just want to veg out and do nothing. Dean Cameron is a hoot in that movie.

Remember it' s not how far you go but how go you far!

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Is that the one with the spiders?

[LynneSin]

15. Didn't recall any spiders. It was a comedy

Dean was the leader of the Section 8 school which was basically a bunch of drunks & stoners. But they loved to party.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I'll check it out the next time it comes around.

I think I was confusing it with Ice Spiders which also had to do with a ski instructor who was good looking. (Really, are there any other kind of ski instructors?)

[Hayabusa]

17. How can this thread go so long without

The Evil Dead?!

[Baitball Blogger]

21. I'll be damned. That's the prequel to the Army of Darkness.

I had no idea there were prequels for that movie, though the opening scenes suggested there was a lot of backstory to cover.

[Hayabusa]

23. Weird thing, though...

Army of Darkness makes it seem like it was just Ash and his girlfriend in the cabin. Evil Dead adds 2-3 more people!

[cyberswede]

18. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059170/

[Baitball Blogger]

20. hmmmm....

That must come from the Blockbuster back room.

[geardaddy]

24. Ahh Russ Meyer.

Boobs and more boobs.

[Archae]

26. ULTIMATE B-movie!

They did everything right, but they were competing with "The Empire Strikes Back," so they ended up as a B-movie.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. It came out at the same time as the Empire Strikes Back?

Outside of the superior soundtrack, the special effects do look B rated. How did they pull that off?

[csziggy]

34. I always confuse that one with Flesh Gordon

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. The band with my favorite astrophysicist.

[Tom Ripley]

28. "The Boys Next Door" directed by Penelope Spheeris

[Baitball Blogger]

31. I thought it was a vampire movie, and then I looked it up on wiki.

It's a sad movie. I wonder what tips were provided at the beginning of the movie to suggest that it would end that way.

[Tom Ripley]

32. Both Caulfield and Sheen give really good performances in it

also a great soundtrack

[raccoon]

29. They Live. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

33. Definitely could not be a complete thread without that title.

[felix_numinous]

35. One favorite:

[Baitball Blogger]

40. I know the clip.

Great choice. We were talking about Army of Darkness up thread.

[fizzgig]

36. i saw tremors at the drive in

i think it was paired with wayne's world, but that was forever ago

[petronius]

38. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Seriously awesome movie! (and perhaps not really down in the B category - I'm not sure exactly what that includes...)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/

[Baitball Blogger]

39. I've never seen that one.

It def goes on my list.

[blueamy66]

41. Wrong Turn

I bought the darn DVD.

[Baitball Blogger]

44. Those kind of movies were interesting, but they became

impossible to "hook" into because they just kept getting gorier and gorier, and I can't stand to invest that much time on a movie where that end is so predictable. I like the ones where at least one person survives. I mean, truly survives and is not some kind of phantom ghost that comes out of the woods on the anniversary of their death.

[blueamy66]

49. I get ya

I only like the first one

[lame54]

42. Hard Core Logo...

[Bertha Venation]

43. Well, I thought of posting Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, but

given what everyone else has posted, I don't really think it's a B movie. It's just a good movie that didn't get much attention.

[Baitball Blogger]

45. I think the defintiiton of "B" movie has become very subjective.

There are some strong C and D movies listed above, but, a long time ago, those C's and D's would have been categorized as "B."

Go figure.

[pipi_k]

48. A couple more...

"Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry". Susan George is so lame she's almost great.

and

"Caveman". Really cool scene where they discover music. And the giant flying insect scene is a disgusting classic.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

50. Yeah, ringo and john matuszak.

Too funny. A great silly movie, like Airplane! and the Naked Gun series.

[trueblue2007]

52. the DARK SHADOWS movie ??? is that B? Staring JOHNNY DEPP

[Baitball Blogger]

54. I suppose it is a B movie.

But, on the low end.

[mysuzuki2]

53. Does anyone remember The Young Stewardesses from the early 70s?

It was a soft core porn shot in 3d. I thought it was, whether on purpose or inadvertent, absolutely hilarious.