Who was your influence in B movies?

[peter johnson]

I read The Psychotronic Guide to Incredibly Strange Films and Michael Medved's Golden Turkey Awards in the same week --
I realized I was not alone --
Then I made a few of my own --
Then I found this website . . .
Hooommee . . . Hooommeee!!!
peter crane/denny johnson

[daveblackeye15]

I think my parents had a lot to do with it.

I watched the Star Wars movies and King Kong with my dad a bunch of times.

While my mom would take me to a mom and pop store called "Flix and Pix" and I would go to the Giant Monster Section and rent Godzilla, Gamera, Gappa, Guilia and Yongary movies (and for those last three just movie)

Went I rented Final Wars and Estroy All Monsters a few weeks ago, mom asked me what I got, I handed the movies to her. She looked and then said "My god! Havn't you seen everyone of these yet?"

I guess she remembers all those flix and pix visits.

[dean]

Oh!!!!  How could I forget!!!

Another influence would be going over to my grandparents house as a kid and watching whatever sunday arvo movie was on and films such as Willow, the Sinbad movies and Conan and an old childhood movie that I haven't watched since, Red Sonja [which I quite liked as well!]

How could I forget those!!!  Great, great films!

[Scott]

I use to watch them as a kid by myself on a Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening, and maybe on a Sunday Afternoon in the mid-70's. As I got older I didn't think they were scary so I stopped watching them till the movie ED WOOD (1994) came out and I took a video production class around the same time. This reintroduced these films for me with a different point of view than the scare factor. Also you have the element of "if they could make this film then I can make films also".

Film is a kind of study for me all I need is some good equipment and I think I can manage the rest.

[Flangepart]

My dad. I first saw King Kong Vs. Godzilla at the long gone East Side Drive-In. As Dad worked days, Mom nights, and as dad and i liked the same "Weirdness", my first sight of G was as he rose out of the sea, and i dropped behind the front seat!
Dad died in 83. Wish he could have seen the movie collection i have now.

[loyal1]

I had a little barbarian phase back in the day.  Around the time I use to watch V.  I also watched Doctor Who (Maybe because my name is Leila (pronounced Leelah) hehe.  My momo HATED all that stuff and din't understand why I liked it.  she told me I would realize how stupid they are when I got older...hmmmm, 30 now and still waiting...lol

[Texdar]

My mom got me into watching old monster movies when I was like 4 or 5.  We'd watch Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, stuff like that.  She always made me know they were only pretend so I was never really scared of that type of monster movie.  When I was in elementary school, I use to have a friend spend the night every friday or saturday night and we'd stay up late watching whatever monster movie was on.  Then in the 80's when I was a teen, I had the luck of having an inlaw that owned a video store so I could get whatever movie I wanted for however long I wanted.  He liked horror and b-movies too so I saw many obscure movies I'd never have the chance to see otherwise.  If the movie really sucked it was no big deal as I wasn't out any money on it.  

Have to say during the 70's and 80's drive-ins played a big part too.  The only two movies that my mom made my dad drive out on were Last House on the Left and Mark of the Devil.  She pretty muched liked everything else including The Exorcist which was really scary watching on a drive-in screen (I spent most of that movie sitting on the floorboard in the backseat so I didn't have to see it...hehe).