What's Your Favorite B-Movie?

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"B-movie" has come to refer to any low-budget commercial film, with lesser-known actors (B-actors). These films may be formulaic, but they are distinguished from Z-movies by being professionally made commercial products. Fans of B-movies stress that the lower budgets and lesser oversight may allow for an energy and originality not found in big budget Hollywood films. This was especially true in the years following World War II. In the Eisenhower era movies with big budgets and top stars were often boring and conventional (Around the World in Eighty Days, The Greatest Show on Earth) while B-movies had energy and originality (The Thing from Another World, It Came from Outer Space). Many B-movies, especially in the science fiction and horror genres, are still popular today.
( via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie )

Anything low-budget, campy, cultish, and / or weird goes! See http://www.badmovies.org/ for inspiration.

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

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UHF

Wierd al, fran drescher, michael richards

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Porky s

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Howard the Duck

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The Toxic Avenger

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Evil Dead

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Plan 9 from Outer Space

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The Blair Witch Project

They made $22000 for every dollar that they spent making it.

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Meet The Feebles

Literally Mupets on Crack. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/... [show more]

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Day of the Triffids

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/ A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a... [show more]

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Alice in Acidland

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Flash Gordon

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

OK, so I've never seen it, but the title alone... how can that not be a great B-movie?

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Barbarella

Queen of the Universe

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mele 2 years ago

Could 'Napoleon Dynamite' be considered a B movie?

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SweetlilCherry 2 years ago

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holotone 2 years ago

It's unfortunate that you don't share my appreciation for bad movies.

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MarvelKnight 2 years ago

Oh my, looks like someone sat on the juicer thinking it was a vibrator. Tame it down Cherry.

We're all friends here. I've never seen this side of you. Your usually drunk as a skunk and slurring.

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Skrrrriti 11 months ago

I'm gonna risk negative cred here and say, any and all movies by Russ Meyer, rest his smutty soul

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