What are some of your favorite B movies?

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captainrick said:
and James Arness played the role of “The Thing,” years before “Gunsmoke.”
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Probably about the same time as he made Them, about giant ants that were mutants caused by the nuclear tests in the desert Southwest.
 
The Intruder, 1962, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner. Very interesting and unusual movie in a number of ways. It was a true “B” movie in one way - namely, it was made on a very low budget, like many Corman films - but not schlock at all; on the contrary, very serious both in the subject matter (racism in the South) and in the way that subject matter is handled. Shatner is excellent; when you watch him, you can’t help but wonder if the success of Star Trek ruined him as an actor. It’s an unusual role for him too, playing the bad guy.

Corman encountered a lot of trouble during the filming, as there was a lot of opposition from locals (the movie was made on-location in a number of Southern small towns). Segregation, “go to the back of the bus” and that sort of thing were still common in the South at that time. They had to move from one town to another in order to get away from the angry residents. If you watch the movie, you can see that the same location rarely appears in more than one or two scenes. Corman even had to do some clever things with camera positioning when filming the Shatner character in his hotel room, to disguise the fact that it was actually not the same room in each scene.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Mysterious Island is good and Swiss Family Robinson too!
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Like many Disney movies in this genre SFR was okay–it’s certainly harmless entertainment. The Castaways and Island at the Top of the World also come to mind.
 
louisak said:
The Intruder, 1962, directed by Roger Corman, starring William Shatner. Very interesting and unusual movie in a number of ways. It was a true “B” movie in one way - namely, it was made on a very low budget, like many Corman films - but not schlock at all; on the contrary, very serious both in the subject matter (racism in the South) and in the way that subject matter is handled. Shatner is excellent; when you watch him, you can’t help but wonder if the success of Star Trek ruined him as an actor. It’s an unusual role for him too, playing the bad guy.

Corman encountered a lot of trouble during the filming, as there was a lot of opposition from locals (the movie was made on-location in a number of Southern small towns). Segregation, “go to the back of the bus” and that sort of thing were still common in the South at that time. They had to move from one town to another in order to get away from the angry residents. If you watch the movie, you can see that the same location rarely appears in more than one or two scenes. Corman even had to do some clever things with camera positioning when filming the Shatner character in his hotel room, to disguise the fact that it was actually not the same room in each scene.
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Interesting. I have not seen it.
 
esieffe said:
The Cotton Club, I like the music.
Any movie with David Niven in it.
Escape from New York.
The Seventh Sign.
12 Monkeys
Any Apocalypse movie with Christopher Walken in it. [Prophecy]
The Stand. [Loved the book]
I am Legend
Resident Evil
Interstellar

The Lion in Winter [Not a B movie, but my favorite movie of all time]
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Yeah, the Prophecy series was killer!👍
 
jeannetherese said:
I thought the ex-presidents stole the show. The “I am not a crook” quote from the robber in the Nixon mask and Swayze as ex-president Reagan’s “Don’t forget to vote” were worth the price of admission.
Evidently a remake has been attempted, but who messes with a B grade classic?
There must be some money in it…😃
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They actually got that idea from a real life person:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kastenberger

Yeah, I agree, it just seems silly to remake it.🤷
 
By the way, I actually read about another series of bank robberies involving a gang who sported Reagan masks, but I couldn’t find a link online.
 
Della said:
Like many Disney movies in this genre SFR was okay–it’s certainly harmless entertainment. The Castaways and Island at the Top of the World also come to mind.
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the Castaways was good. I was a big hayley mills fan.
don’t think I have seen Island at the Top of the World.
 
Della said:
When Worlds Collide and Mysterious Island. Both great B movies I love to watch again and again. 🙂
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I do like When Worlds Collide except for the stereotype in those days of the disabled man in the wheelchair as evil. But John Hoyt does a good job in the role.
 
unstoppable_II said:
Peter O’Toole … one of the two greatest over-actors there ever were. Richard Burton was the other.
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Remember though that they often played larger-than-life characters, as in Beckett, for example. However, if they are indeed over-actors as you say, then long live over-actors!
 
meltzerboy said:
Remember though that they often played larger-than-life characters, as in Beckett, for example. However, if they are indeed over-actors as you say, then long live over-actors!
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Peter O’Toole was great in another favorite B movie of mine…My Favorite Year (1982).
 
meltzerboy said:
I do like When Worlds Collide except for the stereotype in those days of the disabled man in the wheelchair as evil. But John Hoyt does a good job in the role.
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Worse that that. There were no people of color on the ship, perhaps the only ship that made it. Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native peoples didn’t enter the picture. There was a sop to them when the team leader mentioned that other nations were building ships, but any Americans of color didn’t stand a chance.

And as for having a lottery. Bad idea. You might get all engineers and no horticulturalists. Duh! No, in a real scenario they’d choose those with certain skill sets, not leave survival of the colonists up to chance. Still, an enjoyable film if you overlook it’s prejudices and plot flaws.
 
Hmm, after reflecting on this for a bit,

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster.

When I was young, a local station showed these monster movies on Thanksgiving weekend.

This specific one was so “B” it didn’t make the Thursday line up, but was shown usually on Friday afternoon.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
Hmm, after reflecting on this for a bit,

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster.

When I was young, a local station showed these monster movies on Thanksgiving weekend.

This specific one was so “B” it didn’t make the Thursday line up, but was shown usually on Friday afternoon.
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That is one Godzilla movie I have never heard of! :eek:
 
When I was a kid, I liked The Incredible Mr Limpet (Don Knotts turns into a fish), Herbie Rides Again (sequel to The Love Bug), Pippi Longstocking, Gus (a donkey who plays football), and The Court Jester (Danny Kaye). These movies were shown on Saturday afternoons, I think I paid 25c in 1974 or so. Oddly enough, one of these “kids’ matinees” was The Killer Bees. :eek:

I also saw The Towering Inferno, and Skyjacked.

Also, I saw The Little Ark — or is that instead an arty foreign film? 😃

And they had B (or lower) movies in the eighties: I remember Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn, Buckaroo Banzai…
 
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