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Title: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Scott123 on August 15, 2008, 11:50:41 AM
What B movie got you into this great hobby? Maybe something you saw as a kid and then later on in life (like me) you started collecting tons of DVDs. For me, I vividly recall being glued to the TV one Saturday afternoon many years ago watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers .. still one of my all-time faves. What did it for you?  :cheers:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 15, 2008, 11:54:20 AM
for me it wasn'a movie but a tv show:  I dream of Jeannie.  really, I think back and that's the first overtly campy sort of thing I was into


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Cthulhu on August 15, 2008, 11:55:36 AM
I'm not quite sure what movie after I started to watch b-movies...but Evil dead 2 was definitely a turning point. :teddyr:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Psycho Circus on August 15, 2008, 11:56:20 AM
Probably have to say either "The Toxic Avenger" or "Flesh Gordon"  :teddyr:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: ulthar on August 15, 2008, 12:41:25 PM
I cannot pin down a "first," as I remember growing up from the earliest age watching old b&w horror, sci fi and war movies with my Dad.  Probably about 4 or 5 are my earliest memories of specific movies.

My Dad had an 8mm camera (not a Super 8).  Though he used it mostly for just making home movies, he also fooled around from time to time shooting little fx scenes just for fun.  That got me interested in the 'behind the scenes' aspects of making movies; it's this early interest in the mechanics of MAKING movies that I think solidified my interest in B movies; it was not the glitz of A movies that drew me to the medium, but the project and process as a whole.

B movies tend to lay the process bare for us to see.

Early viewings that proved seminal: THE MUMMY, DRACULA, TARANTULA, THEM! and FRANKENSTEIN come to mind, as well as an endless parade of John Wayne Westerns and War pics.  There were many, many others.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: peter johnson on August 15, 2008, 01:00:44 PM
Mine was not a movie, but a book:  "The Golden Turkey Awards", but Michael Medved.
This book codified for me what I had known for years, but didn't really understand:  How it is possible for a film to be wretched, yet contain charm and value.  Suddenly, I knew why I liked things like Plan 9 & etc., and had for decades prior.
That said, I can't think of my first one, as I'd seen dozens before reading the book that confirmed what Andrew says I am:  A Bad-Movie Fanatic.
It was probably one of those Hercules vs. The World films on on Saturday mornings, where my mother or father or both would walk through & see me enthralled with the giant paper-mache spider, with the visible strings, and make some sigh-ful comment that I was too old or too smart to be watching stuff like that.  This would annoy me:  I knew the bug/spider was fakey-looking, but I was still caught up in the story, as it beat going outside to walk around in boring, rural Virginia!!
peter johnson/denny crane


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: brooky1969 on August 15, 2008, 02:12:33 PM
Yeah, I think mine was the exposure to Saturday morning stuff in the early 70's, all those Tarzan flickers and the such. Plus the Flash Gordon serials during the after school cartoon shows. Can't forget the impact of the old late night horror movies I was fond of watching during the weekends at my grandparents as well.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 15, 2008, 02:58:10 PM
I had seen snatches of Hammer horrors and Godzilla sequels on TV growing up, and had caught movies like THE HOWLING and CONAN THE BARBARIAN in theaters.  Watching BARBARIAN QUEEN at age 17, though, had a tremendous effect on me.   It sent me scurrying to find movies featuring similar Frank Frazetta-ish women, like DEATHSTALKER. 

The first movie I actually appreciated for it's "badness" (rather than its bounteous boobies) was GLEN OR GLENDA?   


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Saucerman on August 15, 2008, 03:09:02 PM
I'm not sure I can point to any specific movie, though "Clash of the Titans" was probably the first fantasy/special effects movie I ever saw.  

Instead, I think I too have to point to a book, though the title escapes me.  It was a library book, blue cover, with overlaid images of the Metaluna Mutant and the fliers from War of the Worlds (1953).  I can picture it vividly -- I must have gotten it out at least eight times.  It had pictures of all sorts of movie monsters and brief summaries of movies.  Also, the library had a whole series of thin, orange-bound books, each one telling the plot of a single monster movie.  I very vividly remember "The Deadly Mantis", "Tarantula," and "The Mole People" in this series, as well as one that covered several Mad Scientist movies (and had a picture of Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu on the cover) and one that covered the Godzilla series up to Terror of Mechagodzilla (this one, since I was such a rabid little kaiju fan as a child, I quickly found to be horrendously inaccurate).  

Those books whetted my appetite and made me want to watch all these movies -- and now I think I've seen most of the ones in the books.  


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Jack on August 15, 2008, 03:26:05 PM
I think it was all those made-for-TV movies from the '70s.  Then in the '80s I was old enough to see movies with boobies, and it was a done deal.  Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity was one of the earliest bad movies I remember really liking.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Torgo on August 15, 2008, 03:31:53 PM
The first time I saw Megaforce on VHS back in the mid to late 80's.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: princess dragonmom on August 15, 2008, 03:51:54 PM
I remember watching "The Baby" on Saturday morning in the 70s what a bizarre movie.  I knew I had to see more like it.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: masterdebater on August 15, 2008, 04:16:36 PM
I vividly remember watching the TV series 'Blakes Seven' at the age of about 4. Great writing, great actors and absolutely no budget. I love it still and I'm still collecting all the episodes. Good old Dr Who is also to blame. Both written by Terry Nation, so it's his fault.

As for films it was anything with a space ship in it. Day The Earth Stood Still was a very early favourite and I still regard it as one the best sci-fi movies ever.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: RCMerchant on August 15, 2008, 05:31:11 PM
I can remember, to this day,the first movie that got me hooked on 'horror' movies....at age 5....it was FRANKENSTIEN meets the WOLFMAN. My life has never been the same since. Soon after my Aunt Carol took me and my brother Mike to see PLANET of the APES in a theater.

  My first consious  thought that "this movie is really ...REALLY BAD! " Was when I saw DRACULA vs. FRANKENSTIEN on TV back in about 1972. I had already seen pics and such from my Famous Monster mags...and was appaled that Dracula had an afro...but I wasn't prepared for such gawdawfulness. Another BAD early memory...ASTRO ZOMBIES on Shock Theater. The Asto Zombies looked sooo stupid,I was tempted to change the channel...but it was Sunday...golf was on the other two channels....and it was a monster movie. A LOUSY one...but beggers can't be choosers,eh?
 I also recall being real p**sed when a super cool titled movie was listed in the TV Guide one Saterday afternoon...FRANKENSTIEN'S BLOODY TERROR. I watched that whole f#cking movie waiting for Frankenstien...a wolfman was in it and a Dracula type guy.....and a plot that made NO sense to me...but no Frankenstien! Expliotation strikes again!!!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-90EW2Om4t0





Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Cthulhu on August 16, 2008, 02:42:20 PM

Another BAD early memory...ASTRO ZOMBIES on Shock Theater. The Asto Zombies looked sooo stupid,I was tempted to change the channel...but it was Sunday...golf was on the other two channels....and it was a monster movie. A LOUSY one...but beggers can't be choosers,eh?

I always wanted to pick up the Astro zombies. You said you disliked it as a child. But now, is it any good?


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: JaseSF on August 16, 2008, 03:45:51 PM
Disney's responsible for getting me into B-movies IMO. THE BLACK HOLE is likely the first Sc-Fi movie I ever saw and it was so filled with horrific images and visions I was just blown away. It had a bit of everything. Gunslinging robots, a terrifing red devilish robot named Maximilian who absolutely fascinated me as a kid, a mad scientist determined to actually explore a black hole from the inside! It was only the somewhat dullish hard SF like approach it took towards the subject that slowed it down a bit but as a kid I adored every minute of this film. Especially strange was the visions of Maximilian and his creator Dr. Hans Reinhardt clutched together in a love death embrace descending into the pit of hell. I still consider Maximilian to be a top notch screen villain. Not too many years after this, Disney also came out with TRON. This was definitely my first introduction to the genre and soon enough I'd also be watching ASTROBOY, SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL SUPER HEROES cartoons.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: RCMerchant on August 16, 2008, 07:54:22 PM

Another BAD early memory...ASTRO ZOMBIES on Shock Theater. The Asto Zombies looked sooo stupid,I was tempted to change the channel...but it was Sunday...golf was on the other two channels....and it was a monster movie. A LOUSY one...but beggers can't be choosers,eh?

I always wanted to pick up the Astro zombies. You said you disliked it as a child. But now, is it any good?

Is it any good? Hmm. Your asking someone who's favorite movies include BRIDE of the MONSTER,the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE and the HORRORS of SPIDER ISLAND this?

  Yeah...I like it! It's got Tura Santana,John Carridine babbling all sorts of psedo-scientific nonsense,goofy zombie/robots,and blood!  :smile:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 16, 2008, 08:05:37 PM
There's no telling for me.  Growing up in the '90s, I had MST3K, USA's Up All Night, and TNT's MonsterVison, so I'm sure it was one of those movies. 

My guess is either The Toxic Avenger or Bikini Car Wash.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Raffine on August 16, 2008, 10:04:54 PM
I was four years old and the daily 'Dialing for Dollars' 3:00 movie with Tom York on Channel 6 in Birmingham aired a 'Horror Week' featuring:
THE KILLER SHREWS
THE SCREAMING SKULL
THE GIANT GILA MONSTER
FROM HELL IT CAME
THE SHE CREATURE

Yes, I still vividly remember the films they showed!

I watched each one from the safety zone behind the couch as my mother ironed clothes.



Things were never quite the same for me afterwards . . .


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: akiratubo on August 16, 2008, 10:32:27 PM
I grew up watching them on VHS, but the one that I mark as my true start in "bad" movies is a Franco Nero flick called "The Falcon".


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Scott123 on August 17, 2008, 01:31:38 AM
Ah yes Raffine, the great Giant Gila Monster! I saw it for the first time just a year or so ago ... cheesy, but I love the movie, bad lighting and all. True classic in the bad movie genre.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Cthulhu on August 17, 2008, 03:41:43 AM

Another BAD early memory...ASTRO ZOMBIES on Shock Theater. The Asto Zombies looked sooo stupid,I was tempted to change the channel...but it was Sunday...golf was on the other two channels....and it was a monster movie. A LOUSY one...but beggers can't be choosers,eh?

I always wanted to pick up the Astro zombies. You said you disliked it as a child. But now, is it any good?

Is it any good? Hmm. Your asking someone who's favorite movies include BRIDE of the MONSTER,the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE and the HORRORS of SPIDER ISLAND this?

  Yeah...I like it! It's got Tura Santana,John Carridine babbling all sorts of psedo-scientific nonsense,goofy zombie/robots,and blood!  :smile:
Thanks for the help :thumbup:. I'd give you karma, but Andrew disabled it for you.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: JJ80 on August 17, 2008, 12:51:16 PM
I think that I mentioned in another thread that "The Land That time Forgot" was the movie that got me interested in b-movies back in the early Nineties. However, I think that being a "Doctor Who" fan was probably just as important to my interest in the Sci-fi and Horror genres. I'd always been into westerns and war films which I still watch today.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: the master on August 17, 2008, 02:20:41 PM
darn i feel young wich i am i was playing the videogame destroy all humans and when you beat the game you unlocked teenagers from outer space and at the drive in in the game the  movie playing is a looped clip from plan nine when the flying saucers are over holywood and the army attacks them. things havent been the same for me the last four years after that so in short thanks for such memories im going to honor for along time thq and pandemic.
its good to be young.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Patient7 on August 17, 2008, 04:17:49 PM
It was actually the first B-movie that I ever saw, an obscure one but, The Creeps!  A mix of absurd plot, midgets, and a guy in a hat making jokes the whole way through just got me.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Newt on August 17, 2008, 05:29:46 PM
I am not sure: it is either THEM! or Dracula with Bela Lugosi.  They are the ones I remember as being first: I was still in single digits age-wise, so it would have been in the mid-1960's.  Dracula scared me thoroughly; but the idea of  giant ants intrigued me as well as scared me...so maybe it really was THEM! that started me 'into' B-movies. Then I got hooked on Hammer films and anything with Vincent Price...


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Shadow on August 17, 2008, 09:48:43 PM
I cannot pin down a "first," as I remember growing up from the earliest age watching old b&w horror, sci fi and war movies with my Dad.  Probably about 4 or 5 are my earliest memories of specific movies.

Same here. In fact, it's a commonly known fact in my family that as far back as anyone can remember, I've loved horror, science fiction and fantasy films. I really cannot recall any one film that jump started my love for the genre, but early memories include the old Universal horror films (especially anything with the Wolfman or Frankenstein's monster), Godzilla flicks, giant bug movies from the 50's and of special note, the original Night of the Living Dead, which scared the living hell out of me as a four/five year old. My dad would pretty much let me watch anything and my mother was pretty lenient as well, so I got to see all sorts of stuff as a small child.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: AllisonSNLKid on August 17, 2008, 10:38:29 PM
"The Gate," started the trend for me, which I saw on HBO in early 1993, when I was 10 years old.  I thought it was cool to watch a horror movie at the time, but now its so bad it's actually fun to watch.  I also watched USA Up All Night in the mid-1990s, MST3K in the late 1990s - early 2000s on Sci-Fi, though I remember Comedy Central airing reruns during the 1990s.  An old friend of mine was actually jealous of me for seeing "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" on MST3K, which is also sentimental since it was the ABSOLUTE last airing of MST3K on Sci-Fi several years back.

Let's see....Mr. Sardonicus (a co-worker and I LOVED this movie!), Summer Camp Nightmare (different co-worker from different job loved this movie as well), and way too many Lifetime movies to name.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Allhallowsday on August 17, 2008, 11:37:58 PM
Thought about this one for a few days.  I have to give it to CARNIVAL OF SOULS which I remember seeing on CBS TV out of New York in 1968 or 1969 probably on a Sunday afternoon (could have been Saturday).  I know this film made a strong impression on me, and we watched it more than once back in those early days.  Even that early I recognized it as kind of "cheap" or "cheesy," but it also haunted my nightmares... The one good thing about my father moving our family around as much as he did, is it makes it easier to remember what year anything may have occurred, and I know I was living in Point Pleasant, NJ on Lincoln Avenue... 
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Candacehilligoss4.jpg)


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Trevor on August 18, 2008, 02:58:52 AM
Thought about this one for a few days.  I have to give it to CARNIVAL OF SOULS which I remember seeing on CBS TV out of New York in 1968 or 1969 probably on a Sunday afternoon (could have been Saturday).  I know this film made a strong impression on me, and we watched it more than once back in those early days.  Even that early I recognized it as kind of "cheap" or "cheesy," but it also haunted my nightmares... The one good thing about my father moving our family around as much as he did, is it makes it easier to remember what year anything may have occurred, and I know I was living in Point Pleasant, NJ on Lincoln Avenue... 
([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Candacehilligoss4.jpg[/url])


Mine? I was six and friends of my folks took me to see Charles Jarrott's excretinous remake of Lost Horizon in 1973. I loathed it so much, it almost put me off watching films for life. I'm glad my folks took me to see Murder On The Orient Express for my next birthday.  :wink:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: hellbilly on August 18, 2008, 01:23:55 PM
I guess Black Samurai (1977) started it all for me. The unintentional humor mixed with crappy violence-fu and bad acting left me hungry for more.

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Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Scott123 on August 19, 2008, 02:08:00 AM
It was actually the first B-movie that I ever saw, an obscure one but, The Creeps!  A mix of absurd plot, midgets, and a guy in a hat making jokes the whole way through just got me.
I would love to see that .. in fact I did an imdb.com search and there was no exact match. Do you have more info?


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Sister Grace on August 19, 2008, 05:42:08 AM
It would be hard to pin it down on just one movie. My dad and my brother had a lot to do with my influencing of tastes when i was young. I have very fond memories of watching Empire of the Ants with my dad at a young age along with flash gordon, dr who and Transyvania 6500.
When my brother was a little older and finally entrusted to watch ourselves (he's almost eight years older than me) he turned me on to a variety of bad and good movies such as Trick or Treat, Slumber Party Massacre, Cronenberg's Rabid, and Psychomania. I think a true turning point is when we sat down on night when I was about eight years old and watched Andy Warhol's Dracula.

Some of the best times of my life has been revolving around sharing films with either my dad or my brother. I can remember standing out front of the theatre waiting for our parents to pick us up and clint whispering in my ear "Remember, we saw the disney movie."

Its a shame that we grow older and life happens.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Patient7 on August 19, 2008, 04:17:04 PM
It was actually the first B-movie that I ever saw, an obscure one but, The Creeps!  A mix of absurd plot, midgets, and a guy in a hat making jokes the whole way through just got me.

I would love to see that .. in fact I did an imdb.com search and there was no exact match. Do you have more info?



The Creeps (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129852/)

It's about this guy who tries to rule the world by creating all the Universal monsters from their original literary basis (even though I believe The Wolf Man wasn't a book).  Any way, the procedure goes wrong and the monsters are all midgits.  They need this one woman to become normal sized so she's running away from them the whole time.  For the record, the guy in the hat was the host of a local T.V. show that shows bad movies (kind of like Mystery Science Theater).


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 19, 2008, 04:23:38 PM
also have to give a shout out to the live action Spider man on "the electric company".  I wasn't that in to sesame street or any of those shows and electric co wasn't much better, but when they had spiderman it was on, son!


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Mr_Vindictive on August 19, 2008, 06:22:38 PM
I recall watching tons of b-movies with my grandfather as a child.  One day I remember watching both Food Of The Gods and Empire Of The Ants with him.  I was about five or so at the time, and was enthralled.  He died when I was about 10, so  I didn't get to share my love of the films with him for long.

The film that truly got me into b-movies was Evil Dead.  It was a revelation.  I never had seen something just so violent, unique and strange.  After that, I was hooked.  I was 15 at the time.  A local video store had a deal where you could rent 7 older VHS tapes for seven days for seven dollars.  I went through the horror section, which took up nearly a fourth of the huge store, and dove right in. 

I found some truly amazing films that way.  I learned that just because a film has no budget, is badly acted and all around a b-film, it can still hold more imagination and entertainment than a big budget film.  I still to this day love bad films, horror in particular. 


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Dennis on August 19, 2008, 09:07:13 PM
I was hooked on "B" movies the first time I was allowed to walk to the Tumbleweed Theater, I was 6 years old and my dad decided that since I walked the mile or so to kindergarten by myself I could be trusted to walk the mile to the show. He did have one proviso, I had to get the money all by myself too.
I collected soda bottles during the week, they had a 3 cent deposit on them, only needed 12 to go to the Saturday matinee. 15 cents admission, 10 cents for a soda (only had 1 size), 5 cents for candy bars, and 5 cents for popcorn, saved the extra pennies in a jar. This sum of money entitled me to see 2 movies, usually horror/ sci-fi but also the occasional western, a short or serial,  2 to 4 cartoons, and previews of the next Saturday matinee. I believe the movies I saw that first time were "Earth vs the Spider" and "The Beginning of the End" but I wouldn't swear to it. These films struck a chord with me, no matter how ineptly filmed or how silly the idea, being chased by some slobbering monstrosity from beyond always made my problems seem pretty small.
I shared this with my daughter when she was the same age, when the wife worked late we would walk to the video store and rent cheesy monster movies. On the way home we'd stop at the market and pick up sodas and sandwiches, come home and watch the movies sitting on the floor in the dark. Watching those movies with Kari are times I will always remember. In a way it could be said "B" movies helped me be a better father, kind of nice in a strange sort of way.   


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: ToyMan on August 19, 2008, 09:18:38 PM
i've been aware of horror movies and exploitation cinema as far back as i can remember. literally, my earliest memory is watching bits of the twilight zone movie at a drive in from the back of a station wagon.

however, the b-movie that really started my fixation was hellraiser, which i saw on home video when i was 8 or 9.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: JaseSF on August 19, 2008, 11:02:13 PM
Aside from what I already mentioned, at a local youth club we were actually showed Bruce Lee films via a film projector when I was very young, probably not too long after watching THE BLACK HOLE. I absolutely loved them and adore Kung Fu films, good and bad, to this day. Also have to give a tip of the hat to "The Incredible Hulk" and the Nicholas Hammond "Spider-Man" series too.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: AllisonSNLKid on August 19, 2008, 11:06:02 PM
My local New York/Philadelphia stations always showed the Creme de la Creme of bad movies when I was growing up - especially WPVI, ABC's station in Philadelphia, PA, which showed the Six Million Dollar Movie (Still does - I stayed up on Sunday nights during my temporary work layoff this past winter watching these awful movies).  The movies looked to cost around six dollars, and were usually really bad dramas. - I don't even remember what the movies were, but I do remember one that claimed it was a true story, but apparently it was some fictional Canadian film starring Ally Sheedy as a screechy, hysterical mommy.  I saw it last winter.

I think the New York ABC station, WABC, had an equivalent programming block late on Saturday night (usually after 1 am), though until 2006, I was watching "ER Theater" on Saturday nights after "SNL" was over on NBC, while filling the gap between a current SNL ep and a classic ep, which usually started on WCAU (NBC's Philadelphia station) at 2:00 or 2:30 am (this time changes frequently between 1998 and 2006).

Getting stations out of both Philly and NY meant plenty of ops to watch bad movies late at night.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: diamondwaspvenom on December 27, 2009, 03:04:19 PM
It would definitely be Reptilicus. Back when I was a kid, that movie used to scare the living crap outta me. I would've never thought that it would become the start of an eventual long term love of horrible movies.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: retrorussell on December 27, 2009, 03:42:35 PM
Probably Rodan.  I nearly peed myself laughing at the ridiculously dated FX and goofs.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: SPazzo on December 27, 2009, 04:00:14 PM
It was THEM.  THEM started it for me. :teddyr:

After I saw THEM, I watched the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, which, in turn, made me go and watch Plan 9.  After that, I just loved B-Movies.  Also, MST3K helped.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Javakoala on December 27, 2009, 04:36:51 PM
Growing up, I watched horror movies with my brother who was ten years older than me. They scared the hell out of me but I wanted to watch them because he liked them. They were awful, but they had monsters and stuff and they scared me. I never really understood why my brother laughed at these films.

I think the movie that made the ultimate connection for me was "Night Of The Lepus". It was so ridiculous, giant killer bunnies. I just kept laughing and laughing and laughing at what, if it had been a bug-eyed monster, would have normally scared me witless. I couldn't wrap my brain around it. Who in their right mind thought bunnies were scary, even if they were the size of trucks?

I haven't stopped laughing since, but I'm still looking for the movie that scares me so bad that I swear off of horror movies for life.  Never gonna happen, I don't think. Or, on the flipside, a gore film so disgusting it makes me puke. Haven't found one yet.

Although I have found films that made me feel sad to be a human being, but...oh well.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Criswell on December 27, 2009, 05:51:57 PM
Teenagers from outer space, it came with the game destroy all humans and you unlocked it after you beat the game, and now my film viewing life has never been the same.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: SPazzo on December 27, 2009, 06:33:03 PM
Teenagers from outer space, it came with the game destroy all humans and you unlocked it after you beat the game, and now my film viewing life has never been the same.

Haha. I remember that.  My friend had that game and we were trying to watch the movie after he beat it.  Well, we had about four minutes left in the movie, and he accidentally hit a button on the controller and it reset the whole movie from the beginning.  So we then just found the ending on Youtube.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: venomx on December 27, 2009, 07:01:07 PM
Godzilla and Gamera movies hands down! If I had to narrow it down to one movie ...

Godzilla Vs Megalon 1973. I wanted Rokuro's "fish boat" really bad, umm I still do till this day lol.

(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1746/71861530.png) (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/71861530.png/)



Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on December 28, 2009, 04:34:04 AM
Hercules with Lou Ferrigno

One of the greatest accidentally hilarious films to watch when you've got a few brewskis down the hatch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDTE6s1E9A


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Time_Signature on December 28, 2009, 06:35:53 AM
Gee, I can't pinpoint one specific B-movie that started it all. I guess I just grew up on an (un)healthy but probably typicaly 80s diet of Godzilla-style monster movies, A and B sci-fi movies, horror and splatter movies of all sorts, various fantasy flicks and, of course, 70s and 80s TV shows like the original Battlestar Galactica, Knightrider, the He-Man and G.I. Joe animated series.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Flick James on December 29, 2009, 01:43:00 PM
That's a tough one to answer for me. Although I had seen plenty of B-movies before this, it was "It Came From Hollywood" that started me down the so-bad-it's-good appreciation road, and that's not a film, but a tribute to many of the best classic B's.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: spongekryst on February 14, 2010, 04:09:25 AM
I've watched b-movies ever since I was an infant staring at the tube, but I will say that Freddy Krueger and Chucky were my favorite "monsters" as a young lad. However, my all time favorites to this very day are the Godzilla films, I owned everyone on VHS and hope to someday buy them all on DVD (the tapes are well watched, hence, well aged)


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: El Misfit on February 14, 2010, 11:44:42 AM
umm, hard to say, but probably either Pod People, Manos, or Hercules against the moon men


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: ChocolateChipCharlie on February 15, 2010, 11:07:45 AM
It's so tough to pinpoint one movie in particular, but if I had to I would have to pick THE STUFF.

I saw part of this movie when I was maybe 7 years old, as one of those sleepy Sunday afternoon time-filler movies that the stations not affiliated with the major networks used to put on.  I remembered bits and pieces of it but years later I started to wonder if I didn't dream the whole thing up. 

I told my buddy about it when we were about 13 and we started to go on a quest to find this movie.  This was before the days of widespread internet so I didn't have that as a resource.  We scoured all of the Blockbusters and other main video places in the county, with no luck.  I really believed I had made it up at this point.

Then we found this little hole-in-the-wall video store - I told the clerk about it and he recognized it right away, and lo and behold they had a copy.  The VHS box cover had an old cracked picture of white goo eating some guy's face.  Jackpot.

It probably has to do with the long-running circuit that had been running in my head that could finally complete itself and the wave of relief I felt when I realized I hadn't dreamed it up.  That cemented the experience and the genre in my head and ever since it's been an official obsession of mine.

Larry Cohen is still my favorite bad movie director, along with Cronenberg of course.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: darthchicken on February 15, 2010, 01:22:43 PM
Plan 9 and the Godzilla sequels, especially Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.. I always loved King Caesar, and how he jogs into battle. I always thought that was brilliant.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Hammermachine on February 15, 2010, 07:08:42 PM
I'm thinking it was probably Them or the Crawling Eye, I was a kid and I don't remember which I saw first. But the crawling Eye scared the sh*t out of me.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: streettrash on February 16, 2010, 05:49:47 PM
Monster Dog and Bog.


Title: Re: What B movie started it all for you?
Post by: Amanda on February 17, 2010, 10:56:55 PM
Motel Hell, when I was about 6.  :)