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What kind of bad movie fan do you believe yourself to be? I'm a combination of a decade snob (I primarily watch bad movies from the 80's), a casual fan and a monster maniac.


What about you guys?

Mostly a Monster Maniac with a tendency for anything Prehistoric/dinosaur in Nature.  Or cryptozological.  Some bouts of Slasher, Alien, experimentation-whatever I'm in the mode for.

We have had long winded debates about  whether a "B-movie" is a Bad Movie or a Bad Movie is a B-movie.  I don't think there was ever a consensus.  Certainly many Bad Movies have "B" budgets, but are often good or even great!!  Sometimes, they're so lame, er, BAD, they are superior entertainment.  And sometimes Bad is just not good.  Whatever it is, I think it's an important distinction to consider, because plenty of A-movies are Bad, like TITANIC (1997) which is really bad, yet made billions (?) and cost 100 million, if ever there was an "A" picture that's also a Bad Movie, that Academy Award winner is it.  EDIT: DELETED

Oh, and I picked Exploitation Addict.   :smile:

I always find myself watching b-movies of all kinds from South Africa or Italy from the early 1980's to the late 1990's, however they use wind up being Conan knock-offs, post-apocalypse (Mad Max ripoffs), or Sci-Fi.
I do love monster movies, but nothing too unpredictable comes from them, I live for WTF moments in b-movies.
Recently I've been getting into those Bulgarian shark movies from 2000-present!

I preserve most of those at the place I work at.  :buggedout:

I just like bad movies. I mostly watch the italian PA films or flicks that might have been shown at a drive in in the '60s or '70s.

I think I'm a combo of a Bad Movie Extremist and a Monster Maniac. Though I fluctuate.
If it's a bad movie with lotsa monsters-like the WEREWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN, any Godzilla monster rumble,or lotsa old horror stars running rampant-(ie: the BLACK SLEEP,DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN,etc....) cool.
Of course,if it has Bela Lugosi-I can enjoy  even his most intolerable drek-(BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA,the APEMAN,etc...).

I'm just a movie fan ~ period. Granted there are films that I don't like ~ anti-South African films are one genre that I dislike intensely ~ but I am open to anything that will entertain me in some way and take me away from my troubles for a bit.  :smile:

I mostly enjoy monsters movies, they usually provide the variety of cheese I favor.  Alien invasion, or anything sci-fi is great as well.  Post-apocalyptic is another fave. 

I chose casual only because it was the closest fit, I'm probably somewhere between casual and extremist. I enjoy this site quite a bit but I'm not nearly as well-versed as many others here. I think I'm enough of a fan where I can offer relevant comments, and like to think I can distinguish between a good b-movie and a bad b-movie. I would maybe throw in a tinge of decade snob, and I am fond of 70's B.

To most people here that know me well, this will come as no surprise...

I'd probably have to say that I'd fall under the catergory of "decade snob" as you put it. Looking at my movie collection, it's all 80s bad/b-movie stuff and then that's in addition to the stacks of other 80s teen/drama/comedy/action crap I have.

I'm a decade snob too I'd say because usually when browsing I avoid B-movies shot after 1990. 

I chose "Casual" for the same reasons as Flick James: I enjoy the movies and they represent most of what I watch, but I am nowhere near as knowlegeable as the 'gurus' on here.  I do hope I can offer relevant comments, and I am able to follow and enjoy the various discussions even if I do not participate.

I also checked Monsters, Alien Invasions and Experiments gone wrong (wish I could have included Werewolves and Vampires too!): I will try to catch anything SF or cheesy that comes my way.  And the older the better!

I'm a casual b-movie fan.  I just love movies, B-movies included.  I've gone through periods where my devotion to Bs waxes and wanes.  But I've never been interested in specializing in one narrow genre, or in watching more "bad" movies than good ones. 

I'd say I'm more of a "casual" B movie fan, too.  I prefer my "B" movies in the realm of horror, scifi, monster and so on.   I love the older movies more so  ... old Dracula, werewolf, monster and bad experiment etc.  I favor "B" movies that are good vs bad "B" movies - if that makes sense!  I do like "cheeze" if it makes me roar with unintended laughter.   :smile:

I'm a casual fan, just due to time pressure.  But I focus almost exclusively on monsters and sci fi.   I don't like exploitation, horror, or slashers much.   
I think I'm big into high cheese factor, frankly.   
-Ed

I'm definitely just a casual fan, but if I had to choose a group I'd say I like the cheesy action flicks, and 50s b films the most.
Oh and I really really really like war films, but a lot of those aint bad movies/B-films.

Interesting that so many go with casual. You would think at a site like this you would get my extremists. Just goes to show you that b-movie fans hate to be classified.

I voted for Decade Snob (as I definitely prefer movies by decade, most of all I like 1950s, then I'd say the 30s, 40s, 60s, 70s, 20s, 80s and finally the 90s in that order. Stuff made the last two decades I tend to like a lot less but I will still give some of it a try), Bad Movie Extremist (as I'll sometimes watch movies over and over again almost no one else would), Monster Maniac (as if there's a monster in a movie, I'm probably ten times more likely to watch it) and Post-Apocalyptic Fan as I do tend to watch an awful lot of movies about the end of the world and its possible aftermath. I could have easily selected several others there too especially Werewolf and Vampire Fan and Alien Invasion Fan but I see them all as monsters too. I've watched my share of slashers to be honest - more a guilty pleasure for me (most owe everything to gaillos) and after all most feature what are in essence again monsters. I have watched my share of exploitation, blaxploitation, women in prison, Juvenile Delinquency, etc. films...I am NOT a fan of torture films or films that just seem to wallow in depravity and I find most cheesecake films boring.

I love Italian/European movies!  Even if they're really awful the women (and sometimes men) are usually wearing something so bizarre that I'm mesmerized by it for the entire duration of the movie.  We just watched the Devil came from Akasava the other day and Soledad Miranda wore a tore up garbage bag with flowers on it and a green crocheted dress throughout most of the movie - with nothing underneath!  I couldn't tell you what the movie was about though, and I fell asleep toward the end of it, but I will always have fond memories.

Other than that I'm probably a decade snob, I have to be forced into watching anything made after 2000 that isn't Harry Potter.

I already forgot the other ones I picked.

I'm sort of hard to classify, I would say a Zombie Fanatic...but Zombie Chronicles ruined that streak. I just love movies, but I am more than a casual viewer.

I chose deacde snob cause I pretty much only watch b movies from the 70s and 80s. I also chose slasher freak (Just Before Dawn, baby!), zombie worshipper (Nightmare City!), and Italian cheese (Ghosthouse!) - I don't know what it is exactly but the Italians have a knack for great/awful horror cinema that has so much atmosphere it's sick.

Out in the general population, I would be willing to bet that many of us are considered fanatics and/or even experts - relatively speaking.  Here among our 'peers' a different perspective applies.

That's quite true.  On this board I feel like I'm uneducated in the b-realm, but I feel like an encylopedia of badness around most people I know.  Whenever the subject of b-movies comes up at work, one of my coworkers always has to say that she loves them, but she always mentions how she used to watch USA Up All Night and that she owns Earth Girls are Easy on DVD.  The only interesting thing she has to add is that the father of one of her friends was the titular monster in The Thing That Couldn't Die, but I think she's confused on what part he played 'cause the actor who played it died.

I chose Casual and Monster Maniac.  I mostly chose casual because I don't gravitate toward a specific era or genre, not counting monster movies (the big rubber-suit variety).  What I've come to realize is that most people who are into b-movies seem to have broad tastes and are knowledgeable fans of film in general.

I love all things horror. Monsters, Slashers, Grindhouse, and Exploitation. All a godsend if you ask me.

Your a man after my own heart.