80s B-films Rule!

[Velvet Brotha]

Is it just me or was the eighties the greatest era for B-films ever?

Deadly Spawn, Killer Klowns, Brain Damage, Puppet Master... to name a few of course.

[ulthar]

I don't know, VB, the 50's and 60's turned out some pretty good ones, too.  I am partial to the old giant insect genre, like 'Tarantula (1955).'  The older sci fi alien stuff and travel to the moon/venus/mars genre is pretty good, too, imho.

Not saying the 80's did not produce some class a fun stuff, but I doubt I could pick a favorite decade....(it's a mood thing).

[Velvet Brotha]

Ulthar, I have tried to get into some of the 50s and 60s B-films but they just don't do it for me. Don't get me wrong, I do dig them... I just think that B&W kinda kills it for me. I'm not exactly sure what it is...

[Bgrade]

I tend to agree with VB.  80's where about the best (where else would you get Chopping Mall).  I'll watch films from the 50-60's by myself but won't share them with friends.  I have a rule to not show anything pre-1975 unless it is really special.

[ulthar]

I like b&w, especially for 'mood.'  This goes back beyond 50's (and is not really B), but the dark mood of "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff I think would be lost in color.

Also, NotLD.  'Nother great b&w (again, not B).

Friday the 13th or similar films that lean more heavily on bloody and gore fx would probably fall on their face in b&w.

Here we go again....but I thought the b&w scenes in "Blair Witch Project" added some of the edge the makers were looking for.  

Course, I may have a different perspective.  I remember when our tv's were b&w...so I guess there is some nostalgia there, too.  

;)

[Bgrade]

O' my god.  Does that mean there is someone here even older than me, Ulthar?

I thought I was  the only mid 30's professional left at this sight .  http://www.badmovies.org/bbs/list.php?f=2
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No offense to anyone meant.  The last several months have been some of the best posting in a long time. It just seems that no one talks about any movies from my generation anymore.

Damn it, I want talk about Beastmaster, Link, and Frankenhooker.

Guess I should get with the times and see Kill Bill.

[Brother Ragnarok]

The stuff from the 80's is fine if you want a high cheese factor.  Myself, I prefer the gritty grindhouse fare of the 70's.  The grainy film, the "something's not quite right with the people who made this" feeling of realism, the way the movies make you feel like you need a shower after you watch them.  Give me brutal,  morally depraved torture-fests from the '70's any day.

Brother R

[Bgrade]

The 70's films are truely less chessy and better films but they tend give me the hives.

Plus a growing boy needs his calcium.

[Zapranoth]

Ah, Brother Ragnarok... that was a good one.

So tell me... have you seen Traxx?

[Brother Ragnarok]

No, I haven't, but I get the feeling I should.  What's it about?

Brother R

[Riot]

I love the eighties crap.  All bright silly based characters.  It's like readin comic books or cartoons but adult oriented. So I can feel stupid but not immature.   Ummm is that a plus?? I dunno.

Killer Klowns, Neon Maniacs, Trick or Treat (with Skippy), Silent Night Deadly Night, Maniac Cop and the Friday the 13ths all kick ass.

Plus main streamers like Fright Night and Monster Squad.  I don't belive horror has to be disturbing all the time. Every director is trying way too hard to do that. Monsters are fun and let them be fun.  No they don't have to be cute Disney crap. But I always figured a vampire can kill you without rapeing you first. And the eighties and there sweet tastless cheese did that so well.

[I luv dolma]

Deathstalker 1 & 2 (I didn't like 3 and 4)

[The Burgomaster]

I think 70s B-movies are by far the best.  Drive-in theaters, plus the volume of horror movies that were produced in various countries throughout Europe, plus the Philippines and a few other places, added to the B-movie madness.  You also had the tail end of the biker movie craze, the entire blaxploitation era, some Russ Meyer classics, plenty of women's prison movies . . . hey . . . the list is endless.

[Lee]

80's 80's 80's !!

Think of all the crazy post apocaliptic movies we had in the 80's!

[jmc]

I dug the 70s films the most, but the early 80s ones were good too.  It all started falling apart in the mid-80s, I think.