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Published on September 21, 2008 By kurtin In Movies & TV & Books

Recently, there was a post made by SH80 asking us to name the scariest movies we've ever seen.  I love film, so I'm always happy to chat about it and hear input from others in all genres.  Quite specifically, there is a "genre" which has always captivated me, and I wanted to get an idea of what others think of movies in this category.  This special brand of film I like to label "bad" movies or as more commonly referred to as the B-Movies.  Plan 9 is often included in this category as one of the best there is, but I'm here to shed some light on a couple others that you may have either seen or should see.  I would also like to hear from users about others that I should watch, because I'm always interested in more!  The list I've compiled just contains three of my favorites, although there are more, which I think best encapsulate the motif.  The list is as follows:

         

Killer Klowns from Outer Space:  This movie depicts everything that would happen to a town should mutant, alien clowns land and start taking over to assimilate our race into cotton candy energy.  Somehow the majority of the city, except our protagonists of course, are oblivious to the giant 8-foot clowns hanging around, citizens vanishing, and the huge meteor that came zipping down just miles outside of town!  From popcorn-shooting guns to balloon animal tracking dogs, this movie will certainly entertain those looking for a good laugh.

Mosquito:  One movie you're sure to catch replayed on the Sci-Fi channel now over and over again.  This movie is so bad, it's good!  I especially love the criminals dressed in camouflage who can't seem to get on the same page or do anything right together.  Giant mosquitoes, like something from the Cretaceous Era, come take over a camp/park and start draining everyone dry.  They leave behind pale, shriveled, human prunes as victims and are laying eggs to populate the planet even more!  My favorite aspects of the picture are the prop mosquitoes that you can see still dangling from the wires in many scenes. With such fake attacks and piss-poor acting, you're sure to have a blast watching this one.  On a related note, I think when they were consulting on how to make the humans look after Imhotep assimilated them in The Mummy, they referred to mosquito draining techniques.

Tammy and the T-Rex:  Wow, does this one ever top my list as the all-time best "bad" movie!  Any movie where a high school kid gets murdered by other students when they have him killed by a lion and then has his brain inserted into a cybertronic Tyrannosaurus Rex by a mad-scientist has to be pure box office gold, no?!  I wonder how Denise Richards and Paul Walker feel about this one.  I don't really know how much else I can say about this one other than its complete lunacy. Enjoy!

Close to making this top-three list were Teenage Caveman and Frogs.  Now it's your turn.  Gimme a little taste of your favorites so I can get out there and do some renting!!


Comments
on Sep 21, 2008

You may be someone after my own heart. I've sat through some of the crappiest and unheard of horror movies just in case there's that one scene that will raise my hackles. Check out an old movie from 1981 called Dead and Buried and a pretty cool vampire flick called Near Dark.  Pretty much anything by John Carpenter is cool.  Even Phantasm, which overall is a bad, bad movie, has some great moments.  Sign up for Netflix, because if you get the package with the unlimited hours of free movies on the computer, there is a wealth of awful horror movies (and other kinds of movies, too) you can watch for free. I finally saw Last Man on Earth which was the original adaptation of I Am Legend, and a lot of horrible zombie flicks.

I'll keep coming back to this.  You've touched me in the very center of my heart.

on Sep 21, 2008

Attack of the Killer TOmatos.  Night of the Lepus, Sssssssss.

And less we forget - Terror in Tiny Town.

on Sep 21, 2008

My favorite bad movie is Tremors.  Giant killer worms.  Starship Troopers is another horrible movie that I still watch anyway.  This time giant killer bugs in outerspace.  

on Sep 22, 2008

Starship Troopers is another horrible movie that I still watch anyway. This time giant killer bugs in outerspace.

That is actually based upon a book by one of my favorite authors!!!!

NOW do you want to retract it?

on Sep 22, 2008

There was a movie about Satan vs. Santa Claus a looong time ago on Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I don't remember the title.  Very weird.

My personal favorites are the original "Star Wars" trilogy.  The most high falutin' B-movies ever!

on Sep 22, 2008

Also there is Reanimator and Return of the Living Dead and a horrible, horrible movie called Bloodsucking Freaks.

on Sep 23, 2008

and Return of the Living Dead

I am not going to show this thread to my son - statements like that will just upset him too much.

on Sep 23, 2008

If we are interested in some more unique horror flicks, try Fright Night.  My brother introduced me to that one a couple years back, and it is quite the treat.  Starship Troopers is a funny one because I doubt that was even intended as a B-movie...it just...was, lol.  I wonder if Denise Richards hold a record for starring in those types of movies

on Sep 24, 2008

I just saw a movie called Dumpster Baby. Just seeing the title, I had to watch it.  I believe it was made with a budget under a grand.  I don't know if it's the worst movie ever made... but it probably is.  Don't waste your time.

I am not going to show this thread to my son

Years ago I said something about the movie Night of the Living Dead to my aunt while my eight-year-old cousin was in the room.  Poor kid had nightmares just from hearing the title.  (He just got married this spring--where does the time go?)

on Sep 26, 2008

Spider Island. So bad it's awesome. I've seen it on MST3000.

on Sep 26, 2008

'It Conquered The World' by Roger Corman. What else can I say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOM0BfOE4Dw

on Oct 05, 2008

How about a "B-movie" on "B-movies?" My brother gave me "Amazon Women on the Moon" for Christmas last year as a joke...we must have watched it a couple of dozen times on HBO as teens.