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Dog Soldiers starring Dr. Who and Lucius Vorenus! LOL. The others are all good choices too.
The Bee Movie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does Big Trouble in Little China count?
Otherwise, and in no particular order:
- UHF
- Six String Samurai
- Hudson Hawk
- Repo Man
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
- Death Race
- Dead Alive
- WolfCop
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."
I have a collector's edition DVD of Repo Man that came in a metal tin shaped like a license plate
Used to love watching Moviedrome, where Repo Man's director Alex Cox would introduce some amazing cult films and what he loved about them.
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!
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.
How did I not know this???
- Searches for "slinger" in... the usual places ;) : "Ooh boy, that's a lot of porn!"
- Searches for "cyborg" in the usual places : "OK; now I see one or two results are 'Director's Cut'."
Thanks, I'm going to check it out!
Many great recommendations.
Some other that I don't think were mentioned so far:
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The Baron Against the Demons / El barΓ³n contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi
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Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements
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Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie
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Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller
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Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time
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Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller
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Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick
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Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting
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Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure
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Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy
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Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future
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Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective
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Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin
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Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell
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Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base
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Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst
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The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella
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Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror
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Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though
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The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror
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The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.
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Cyber Bandits / A Sailor's Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp
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Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass
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Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror
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Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)
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Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi
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Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien
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Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien
Well, there goes my next 28 free evenings!
(Well, 26. I watched Radioactive Dreams last week, and rewatched Cyborg a few months ago.)
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
- The Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Circuitry Man
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- Bad Girls From Mars
- Maniac Cop
- Anaconda
- Dean Koontz's Phantoms
- Ruthless
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Baker
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The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. Itβs stupid fun even if you donβt like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.
Star Wars
Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it's a B-movie and it knows it.
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