Favorite B-Movies?
Wondering what people's favorite "bad" movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it's good, whatever. I'm pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that's my generation.
Dog Soldiers starring Dr. Who and Lucius Vorenus! LOL. The others are all good choices too.
The Bee Movie.
I think my favorite has gotta be Birds Of Prey. Bad movie, and kinda woke, but I had a blast with it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Second favorite would have to be Love Hurts. It sucks but somehow really works for me.
The whole Tremors series
Tremors series was fantastic
Tremors 1 seems like it set out to be a B movie creature-feature, but had such good dialogue and acting that it overshot the mark.
Velocipastor is so much better than it has any right to be.
Helen Keller vs. Night Wolves has the most hilarious opening song and is the very definition of a B movie.
Super Hybrid is another B movie that has no right to be as good as it is. Highly recommend.
As mentioned in some other comments Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is an absolutely ridiculous romp from Troma.
By the time Velocipastor was over, I was sore from laughing.
Haven't heard of any of those, but the titles indicate "must watch" status.
I recently watched "Pieces" and I was laughing my ass off through the movie, It's a weird little slasher. It felt like if Terrifier embraced the fact that it was a complete trash movie. Hell maybe even Terrifier was inspired by this .
Other than that I'm a sucker for low budget foreign horror. There is something about bad Indonesian horror films that just makes me smile every time. Late 90's and 2010's Japanese horror action films like "versus", newer ones like "Tokio gore police", "Robo Geisha" and "meatball machine"
Tetsuo the Iron man is probably one of my favorite films of all time, but I don't consider that a bad movie by any means.
You're gonna laugh, but I have a lot of love for Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. How Tim Curry managed to chew the set that hard with horns that size is beyond my acting skill to comprehend. And the fact that Tom Cruise ran around saving unicorns from Satan with a motley crew of fairy sidekicks is a sentence gay enough to make me puke rainbows. I'm already gay, man, I puke rainbows all month during June.
Seriously, it's a good and awful movie. It has no plot, it's just aesthetic art. But if you want a really good fantasy movie about unicorns... The Last Unicorn. Full stop. It has made me cry since I was a child. Not a B Movie, just a cult classic.
But if you REALLY want a B movie? Time Bandits. How the hell Kenny Baker went from R2-D2 to one of the gremlin thieves on strike because God wouldn't let them have a turn on the time machine... I can't. And kidnapping The Generic English Schoolboy as their sidekick was just... interesting. At least Sean Connery did a great job as Agamemnon.
Legend and Time Bandits are two of my favorite movies and I have multiple copies of each as they are some of the movies I rebuy each time there's a format change or a special edition! I have never actually seen The Last Unicorn so I'll have to check it out.
Equilibrium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/ A mixture of all dystopian sci-fi with a never seen before (or after, for obvious reasons) martial arts style called Gun-kata.
I feel like this is not a B-Movie, but I don't care because this movie is awesome.
This would have been as big as the Matrix if it hadn't come out at almost the same time.
Nah.
Equilibrium's character arc hinged on the idea that murdering puppies is bad. It's not exactly deep.
Class of 1999 - The movie The Faculty kinda ripped off.
Turbo Kid - Mad Max on BMX
American Gothic - Fun little horror movie
Final Girls - Meta horror movie
Waxwork - Sooooo much fun!
Class of 1999 was pretty fun as I recall. Waxwork is classic!
Does Big Trouble in Little China count?
Otherwise, and in no particular order:
Buckaroo Banzai is one of my all-time favorites. It is the quintessential New Wave film, featuring John Lithgow's most unhinged performance - "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
Also "No matter where you go, there you are."
I had a friend in college who was so proud of his VHS of UHF. Solid choice.
Repo Man is also a solid, underrated choice.
"That's why I don't drive see... The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
Big Trouble counts as one of the greatest movies of all time. :)
+1 for Dead Alive
The largest volume of fake blood in all movie history. It always shocked me that Peter Jackson was ever considered to do LotR, since I was quite familiar with all of his previous work. I remember nearly falling over when I heard the announcement and let me tell you, the images in my head at that point were NOT what we got in the theaters!
Big trouble and buckaroo bonsai are two of my favorites.
Babylon was a massive bomb, and i dont understand why. I think it's a masterpiece.
Pig was another underappreciated masterpiece. When Nic Cage did his AMA on Reddit (one of the best ever), he said it was one of the acting jobs that he's most proud of. He deserved an Oscar for it, but wasn't even nominated. The screenplay, too.
Dunno if it counts but I'm a sucker for Jean Claude van Damme movies. And the only others I can think of off the top of my head are a couple of Albert Pyuun movies called Omega Doom and Knights, really bad sci-fi flicks. I actually need to save this thread for future watching material.
Bloodsport is one of the few movies with footage filmed inside Kowloon Walled City.
Good suggestions and that's why I posted the question, future watch list :)
Recently watched Pyun's Radioactive Dreams (his post-apocalyptic coming-of-age hardboiled detective sci-fi musical!) Post in Lemmy B-Movie Bonanza.
I tried watching Knights a few week ago but the... "copy" I got switched from English to French about ten minutes in. :D I'll try another source soon.
Haha that looks great, going to have to check it out. It's a little disappointing to see that there's no cyborgs in it though. On that note, I was also going to mention the movie Cyborg because there's a director's cut called Slinger that makes it clear that JVCD did miracle work salvaging it for the theatrical cut of Cyborg lol.
Many great recommendations.
Some other that I don't think were mentioned so far:
Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!
(Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)
That's quite a list! A true connoisseur!
Jennifer's Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly
Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy
Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken
If you're into 80s action/thriller The Guest is an homage that does a really good job, and has a unique soundtrack
Brick, early 2000s neo noir with the cast talking like a bunch of 1920s private eyes and gangsters. Like The Guest it was received well critically but just had a really small release.
Blue Underground has a bunch of stuff no streaming service would ever touch
Jennifer's Body was impressive enough (when I saw it on a whim years after it came out) that I looked up its writer (Diablo Cody) and what else she'd done. Which led me to Young Adult. Wow! And: Ooof! Powerful stuff.
Or as one critic put it: "Young Adult may be the year's most engaging feel-bad movie".
Dagon. It's basically HP Lovecraft's "Shadow Over Innsmouth" except it's set in probably Spain I think. It's silly and gorey and frankly terrifying, definitely worth the watch
One of the better adaptations (well, one of the entertaining at least) of HPL imo. It's hard to capture the feel of his stories. The only really "Lovecraftian" thing I can say that really felt like it succeeded without extra cheese was season one of True Detective.
Star Wars
The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.
Action USA is an amazing action movie done solely by stunt people
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LOL Phantoms sitting at 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely checking that one out!
I thought it was ok for what it was. But then again, I like b-movies and especially mystical horror b-movies.
It's actually pretty hard to find!
Jennifer Lopez was in a more recent one that was high budget but was so bad it reminded me of Anaconda.
This actually has surprisingly good writing and character development, until it fell into the usual trap of an overblown, cliche, and boring 30 minute final battle. Also check out Carry On, which is the literal definition of ‘So bad it’s good’….. until an overblown and boring 30 minute final battle that almost ruins everything else.
Torque
If Fast and Furious was motorcycles, but was dreamed up by a coked up meth head https://youtu.be/Aqmze9kIvMU
Drive
Stars the guy who hosts Iron Chef and Brittany Murphy. Legit martial arts mixed in the middle of an insanely bad it's good movie. https://youtu.be/7y3sCYmqOz0
During early pandemic, I watched/rewatched a whole bunch of mid-80s to late-90s action flicks (action's heyday?) and remember Drive not just as great fun but one of a whole slew that had that same... exercise machine?
The one with three concentric rings, and you strap into the middle and spin around in all directions. I think Universal Soldier, Fortress and a bunch more had it too. I should have turned it into a drinking game, as it seemed to be crammed into every 90s sci-fi flick.
Here's my terrible attempt at drawing what I mean.
Does anyone know what it's called?
Solid picks!
Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it's a B-movie and it knows it.
I had forgotten about that one, but yeah pretty solid B!
Many good titles were mentioned here. So as not to add to the repetition, I will add some obscure, but I think fun-to-watch, movies:
I don't know how Rutger Hauer went from arthouse fare like Turkish Delight to straight-to-video action flicks... but I'm damn glad he did!
Another one for the Rutger b-movie pile: Split Second.
Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man are B movies?
Lol just watched Hard Ticket to Hawaii last night. Good list!
Just came back to say I forgot Cherry 2000!
I just watched Buckaroo Bonzai having heard nothing about it. Fucking brilliant movie. I need to watch it again now that I know what I'm in for
These are my favourites so far, don't discount the new movies though, there's some really talented people making dumb movies right now in the spirit of the 80s B-movie!
Hell comes to frogtown. Forgot that one on my list. Ole Rowdy Roddy in the house!
The Last Dragon, hands down.
A perennial favorite, I have the 4k UHD Steelbook of that one :)
Hard Rock Zombies
Street Trash
The Stuff
Toxic Avenger (the original, I haven't seen any of the others)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture
Slime City
Basket Case
Frankenhooker
Yeah all the Troma stuff was the first thing that popped in my mind too, Nukem high, toxic avenger, etc
Basket Case is another fine Henenlotter along with Frankenhooker, which I also suggested.
Death race 3000
Rollerball
Attack of the killer tomatoes
Malibu Beach
Coffee
Ilsa she Wolf of the SS (bad timing for sure)
Heavy Metal
Any Grindhouse or whateversploitation really. I also love effedupmovies (NSFW) webpage if you're into really weird shit.
....I've seen a lot of those movies on effedupmovies... TIL...
P.S. Hundy P gonna watch some more!
Ilsa she Wolf of the SS
This wasn't on your mind because it's been making the rounds on *cough private trackers *cough eh?
If so, a tip of the ol' pirate hat, friend.
Not this time friend. I'm just old as dust. Been sailing for decades without stopping at Port once. They'll just bury me at sea one day.
Great (awful?) 80's musclebound heroes movie.
A Cannon classic!
Army Of Darkness
I love Re-animator so much. Splatstick mad doctor sorceror's duel starring Jeffrey Combs
Never even heard of Rugsuckers, I've found several movies I totally missed from this post. Thanks!
They Live and From Beyond are the two I immediately think of.
Quentin Tarantino on Russ Meyer and "Super Vixens."
If you like movies you should know Russ.
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
I'm going with little known/flops.
Gataca Fandango Byrdy (might be Birdy, saw it when I was young) Head office (old HBO movie)
Can't find any reference to the first one, I remember Head Office though.
Gataca was a more recent film, like 2008 or something. It starred Ethan Hawk, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. Ethan plays a naturally born person trying to excel in a world where only generically (LOL typed generically instead of genetically)enhanced people seem to have any rights. It's a little slow and cerebral but I like underdog stories. Fun fact, the name Gataca was derived from the four letters used to define genes G A T and C.
I kinda feel like actual kung fu movies (not things like Kung Pao: Enter the Fist, etc.) are their own special category, lol! Had almost forgotten about America 3000, yet another Menahem and Yoram gem!
Chalet Girl - Solid B level romcom with Bill Nighy, Ed Westwick, and Felicity Jones. Story is kinda plain, but it's one of my go to movies to cheer me up
I really like Miami Connection. It’s so cheesy, but in an endearing way.
I'll have to check that one out, somehow never seen it.