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Basically what the topic says, what was your gateaway movie into the insane and wacky world of b-movies and bad crap (Well other people would say we have that if we told them we liked something called Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Nail Gun Massacre)?

My intro into bad movies was first started with Troll 2.  I could not believe my eyes when I saw trolls coward in fear of a baloney sandwich!  That mental image is still stuck in my head after 14 years.

My memory is hazy as I used to smoke a lot of drugs, but the bad movie that really made me love bad movies (used to just watch horror) was Ricki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, either that or the granddaddy of them all, Plan 9  :cheers:

I think the movie that started actually seeking out bad movies was Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I remember hearing about a screening at a nearby university and driving there just because of the title. I loved the movie, and soon after started actually seeking out some of the stranger films. I had watched B-movies before that, but not specifically for the so-bad-it's-good factor.

I honestly can't remember as it happened way back in my early childhood, though it was probably a Toho or Harryhausen film. I want to say Titans or Argonauts but I'm not certain.

Rodan.  My sisters and I cried laughing.

I think there were three movies that did it for me: King Kong vs. Godzilla, Q the Winged Serpent, and Swamp Thing.  I used to watch those all the time as a kid.

I think it had something to do with my childhood, involving those radio spots for "The Car", & Bill Cosby's Tale of The Chicken Heart from his album Wonderfulness.

And then, there was this episode of "Mister Roger's Neighborhood", in which the puppeteer didn't have one of the puppets pulled on all the way, & you could see the cuff of his shirtsleeve peeking out from behind the set.

And then, there was that Japanese TV series The Space Giants.

What ultimately did it for, I'm not sure... I'm torn between the smoke coming out out of the spaceship's tail in "The Green Slime", and the really bad acting with a narrator who chokes on his cigarette in "Blood Freak".

Black Samurai.
It was the 80s and my sister's boyfriend rented that movie. Me and my other sister joined and soon enough we couldn't believe what we were watching. About halfway through we were laughing tears, but not my sister's boyfriend. He was angry and P.O. because he took everything martial arts very seriously.
I made a VHS-rip of Black Samurai the very same day and it became our party flick for many years. Then came "A Night To Dismember" and that one really opened flood gates. I have been addicted to bad cinema ever since.

With me, it was the musical remake of Lost Horizon with Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sir John Gielgud and Andrew's favourite actor, George Kennedy which I saw when I was six ~ a friend of my folks' took me along to the cinema ~ and I hated the thing. Six years old and a movie critic already: from there on in, I was a confirmed bad movie fan.

Still am.  :teddyr:

For me, It had to be Night of the Lepus. I happen to see it late one Summer night on the CBS late night movie with my brother when I was around 8 years old. Even then I could see how bad while also hilarious both the premise and effects of the film happen to be. I've been hooked on bad movies ever since. I've been mocking them while watching them ever since.

I think the first stage was watching Elvira's Movie Macabre, admittedly mostly for the cleavage, but I ended up seeing a lot of bad movies and realizing the need to mock them.  A bit later I started watching MST3K, and by that time the mold was probably cast.  Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity was the first bad movie I remember recording and watching over and over.

Manos, the hands of Fate. Yet another reason why I enjoy this movie.... :wink:

Certainly catching "The Land That Time Forgot" when I was about eleven played a big part in shaping my taste in movies, as did watching "Dr Who".

Probably when my mother took me to a Saturday matinee around 1969 or 1970 to see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RxLBjf0t1k

And now I'm a proud owner of the DVD!

Wow,

I really can't pin point the exact moment in time.  I have alway loved B movies.  I would have to say that movies that started it would be the Green Slime and Zardoz.  I remember watching them when I was real real young.  What a turning point that was.  Great memories.   :cheers:

Later,

John

Hmm well it's a little tough to place exactly but well as a kid, I loved cartoons of all types including the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon which did get pretty trippy and wacky especially in its later seasons, Astroboy (which features lot of fights with giant robots), Marvel Super-Hero cartoons which looked more like slightly animated comic books, which I also loved and were full of crazy monsters, super villains and of course superheroes. I recall the Fantastic Four and Incredible Hulk were two of my faves and both comics were very sci-fi driven.

But I really think my love of bad movies was born due to participation in youth club and school movie events. As a kid, my local youth club used to gather a bunch of us together and shows us films via film projector - that was my first introduction to Bruce Lee and I saw practically every single one of his films in this fashion. Also at school, they actually showed When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth when I was a kid as well as Supergirl and Batman: The Movie. I became more and more fascinated with superhero and adventure stories which naturally lead to more fascination with sci-fi and fantasy. As a teen too, I started staying up late at night and late-night TV was a real haven for B-movies. I caught so many in this way especially when I finally had access to Space: The Imagination Station. I think the first Bad Movie I recall really enjoying was The Giant Claw.

this insane ultraman movie called hanuman and the 7 ultraman brothers or something. it was cut in such a way that it was basically all fights. I watched it dozens of times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RUXN1GqWMs&feature=related

I always loved b-movies since I was a kid. My first "bad" movies would have to be Pieces and later on SOV stuff like Blood Cult, Boardinghouse, and The Ripper.

I think pot has been the gateway for many. It is a gateway drug, right?

Just kidding.

Growing up with older siblings who liked to watch Reefer Madness for a laugh was a factor, as was being an avid reader of Mad Magazine. Then, when I was around 12 or so, I saw It Came From Hollywood and that was it. Because of that movie, I have a particular fondness for 50's and 60's sci-fi and horror cheese.

"Ed Wood", then I watched "Plan 9". Very original huh? Come-on I was like 13!

I'm pretty sure it all started before the start of my coherent memory span. No, seriously. My mom enjoys b-movies more than the average joe (though not as much as those of us here), so in all likeliness I probably saw my first when I was still knee-high to a grasshopper. The first one I remember, though, was the classic "Night of the Living Dead." Or...was it "Godzilla?" One of those two.

EDIT: I should probably correct myself by pointing out that while "Night of the Living Dead" and "Godzilla" are (in my books anyway) B-movies, they aren't bad movies by any means. They just don't fit into higher-budget or high-brow fare although it is possible to get some more intelligent stuff out of them than the majority of their kin.

'Twas a danish monster movie infamously known as Reptilicus that I watched in my childhood. However, I didn't fully appreciate bad movies until I watched Krull. Since then,
b-movies became an important artistic aspect in my life.  :smile:

Oh, I failed to mention that growing up as a young lad watching Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot and Inframan had a huge influence.

As a youth I watched a lot of Night Flight, and then the B-fare of Up All Night on USA.  Lots of Cheese there.  (Sorority Girls at teh Slime Ball Bowlerama and Chopping Mall come to mind)
Later on, there was a show doing redubbed B films called Mad Movies.  That sort of primed the pump. 

In college I discoverd MST3K and Joe Bob Briggs.  By then I was hooked.
-Ed

Joe Bob Briggs. Whatever happened to him? That was great stuff.

After The Stuff, obviously, I'd have to say that the earliest really bad movie that I used to watch for its badness was The Devil's Bride starring Charles Gray.  I had never seen Rocky Horror or any of his Bond movies and had no idea who Charles Gray was, but somehow I had to watch that movie whenever it was on.

And the Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", I remember that one too.  And rooting for the mutant crew members to kill Kirk and win - I almost always root for the "bad guys".  It's more fun that way, but almost always ends up disappointing at the end.

Watching Teenagers from outer space after unlocking it in the game Destroy all humans, and I actually liked it.

I honestly am not sure.
I grew up as a kid in the early eighties, so I was influenced by a mish-mash of shows.
It didn't help (or maybe it did), that as I come from a family of seven, those 99-cent movie rental places were good entertainment for the family and I would happily wander the shelves at a tender age reading movie boxes about "C.H.U.D." or "Attack Of The Killer Queen Bee Women".

Stuff that I actually remember from my earliest point though?
Well, the first movie I ever saw at the babysitters when I was 6 that later inspired me to throw saw-blades at our wooden fence was AhNolds "Commando"
That and a love of sci-fi movies has lead me to wonderful things like "Aliens At My Babysitter"

Some I'm not even sure of the name of. It would be something I read about and suddenly realize I'd seen the movie on Sat afternoon tv years and years ago.

I forgot to add that one of my earliest in-theatre movies was the 1970's King Kong.  But I remember little aside from the final battle.

return of the living dead and death race 2000 open the gate for me  :thumbup: