Lifeforce–Alien spacecraft full of vampires rides with Halley’s comet and the vampires come to Earth. Okay, Okay, I admit it: half the movie’s appeal is watching Matilda May walk around naked through most of it. Chick should have gotten an Oscar for best full frontals in cinema history.
Big Trouble in Little China–Campy, silly, and just plain fun. Wish Ghostbusters had been a romp as entertaining as this one.
Trancers–Time-traveling bounty hunter with a unique twist on how you can travel back through time. Just get some beers and don’t expect it to be anything but a way to kill a couple of hours and you’ll be fine.
THEM–The special effects could have been better, but for a B & W fifties sci fi flick about giant ants it has some good suspense.
Duel–A phantom trucker keeps trying to run our hero off the road. Dennis Weaver’s shaky narration adds to the suspense.
Tremors–Small desert town under seige by giant worms like something out of Dune. Come to think of it: this movie was better than Dune.
Pump Up the Volume–Christian Slater is a high school kid with a pirate radio station in his parents’ basement. Wish I could have done something cool like that when I was in high school.
Repo Man–It’s more funny peculiar than funny haha. Repo men are chasing a car that supposedly has alien bodies in the trunk.
Flesh + Blood–with Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Plenty of brutality, sex, bubonic plague, and other things that made the Dark Ages such a hoot.
Excalibur–Possibly the best retelling of the Arthurian myth. Bright chrome armor notwithstanding.
Soylent Green, Old version of Invasion USA (although the Chuck Norris version is awesome too.) The Omega Man (Gosh I wish they would do a remake of this one) In Harms Way (Old WW2 John Wayne classic) The Day After (80’s nuclear war film with Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow). I could probably think of some more but I am drawing a blank.
Army of Darkness - I didn’t see it until college and I thought it was great.
The Final Countdown - This was the first movie I saw in the theater with just me and my Dad. It was a double feature with the first Star Trek movie. I LOVED it. I HAD to have a toy F-14 after that. My Dad stopped by a Wolworths afterwards and bought a die cast metal one with folding wings for me.
Clash of the Titans - I saw this whole movie in parts. There was a Drive In theater outside of Camden TN and I would make my Dad slow down to 10 MPH on the way back from going fishing the summer it came out so I could see it.:lol:
Flash Gordon - It was the 2nd movie I ever saw in the theater. (Star Wars was the first, I was 4:D)
I really liked all of these. I didn’t think they were “B” movies.
-Evil Dead/Evil Dead II/Army of Darkness (Doesn’t get much better)
-Plan 9 From outerspace (Possibly the best all time B-movie)
-Dead Alive (Check this one out if you have eyt to see it. One of Peter Jacksons earlier flicks- it is just great!)
-Brain Dead (Peter Jacksons first film)
-The Stuff
-From Beyond
-Basket Case
-Killer Clowns from Outer Space
-Trailer Park of Horror
-White Zombie
-Surf Nazis Must die
-Repo Man
-Midnight Movie Massacre (Originally titled: Attack from mars)
-The adventures of buckaroo bonzai across the 8th dimension
There are so many more I can think of, I LOVE b-movies and really almost all genres of film/movies in general, but there is a special place in my heart for low-budget, under produced b-movies.
I debated whether or not to include Smokey and the Bandit since it made a kazillion dollars and was one of the top-grossing movies of all time for a while. Still, it’s a B-movie.
