What's you favorite B-movie homage? The Sam Raimi-Wes Craven-back-and-forth or something else? One I really liked that never happened: In Romero's Resident Evil script a character says, "It's like Night Of The Living Dead!". Classic.
If I were making a zombie movie this would be an excerpt from the script-
Our Hero enters the SHED. He sees a GARDEN TROWEL, a SAWED-OFF BOOMSTICK and CHAINSAW and a LAWNMOWER. He goes with the ELEPHANT GUN.
My favorite was part of a longer comedy-sketch movie called "Amazon Women of the Moon." Ed Begley Jr. played "Son of the Invisible Man." The premise is that he is the Invisible man's son who also made an invisibility formula. It drove him mad and made him think he was invisible... but he wasn't. He reveals his "invisibility" to a friend - played hilariously by an actor I've never seen before - and despite his friend's protestations he runs naked to a local pub for some "invisible" fun. The regulars at the pub have seen it all before and play along until the cops arrive. Hysterical.
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> My favorite was part of a longer comedy-sketch movie called
> "Amazon Women of the Moon." Ed Begley Jr. played "Son of the
> Invisible Man." The premise is that he is the Invisible
> man's son who also made an invisibility formula. It drove
> him mad and made him think he was invisible... but he
> wasn't. He reveals his "invisibility" to a friend - played
> hilariously by an actor I've never seen before - and despite
> his friend's protestations he runs naked to a local pub for
> some "invisible" fun. The regulars at the pub have seen it
> all before and play along until the cops arrive. Hysterical.
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And as he's carted off he cries out 'Don't touch me there!'
Favored in-jokes
In Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars, the original Head Martian's glass bowl prop is illuminated by a police officer's flashlight. The police office is played by Jimmy Hunt, who played the young lead in the first movie.
In the otherwise worthless pile that is Return of the Living Dead Part 2, Thom Matthews says to James Karen "I feel like we've been through this before, somehow, somewhere."
Kevin VanHendricksomethingorother sits down on a subway car with his Beliah basket across from the lead and his two-timing girl in Henenlotter's Brain Damage.
A movie theater in Dirty Harry is showing Play Misty for Me.
Fast forward and stop during just about any Joe Dante movie - there is a nifty in-joke to me found.
Since "Star Wars",way too many films have done too many countless homages to others films,instead of just the filmmakers using their own smarts to create their own original scenes,which is what fans crave for every filmmaker to always do.
Not really a b-movie, but I love how Twin Peaks cast Richard Beymer as the greedy millionaire and Russ Tamblyn as the hippified psychiatrist; Beymer and Tamblyn were the original leads in West Side Story (later on in the series, they did a similar Mod Squad reunion).
And, of course, there's the intricate web of self-references in the films of Kevin Smith.
In Phantasm II, an undertaker is seen putting ashes in a bag with the name Sam Raimi on it.
In Stephen King's Sleepwalkers you have cameo appearances by King, John Landis, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper and Clive Barker.
In Wayne's World II (I think), Robert Patrick reprises his T-1000 role.
One I've always considered fitting was Roger Corman' s appearance in Silence Of The Lambs. If the same film were made by Corman it would be considered a trashy exploitation pic, but thanks to his extensive filmography mainstream moviegoers were more willing to accept such a movie, thus it was an Oscar-winning blockbuster.