The Ten Best B-Movies Ever

[Johnny Blister]

10)Eight Legged Freaks
9)Salem´s Lot(TV Movie)
8)All Godzilla movies
7)All King Kong movies
6)Plan 9 From Outer Space
5)Hobgoblins
4)Bad Taste
3)The Creeping Terror
2)Village Of The Giants
1)Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman(remake)

Anyone agree?

[Dunners]

1)ew wood(great B+ movie :)
2)Army of darkness
3)Evil dead 2
4)Night of the living dead
5)Dawn of the dead
6)the pink panther movies( only with Sellers though)
7)die hard
8)Jason X
9)the unearthly( a fun little flick)
10) Bride of the monster( ed woods:P)

1 is best of course

[Brother Ragnarok]

In no particular order...
Split Second
Evil Dead 2
Razorback
Re-Animator
Dead Alive
Microwave Massacre
Barn of the Blood Llama
Take your pick of Godzilla flicks
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
House of 1000 Corpses (bite me, it kicked ass)

Brother R

[Damien01]

1... Night of the Living Dead (It started the whole Zombie thing)
2... Friday the 13th (It have proven that a low budget slasher could make millions... Sorry, I think Friday the 13th has a lower budget then Halloween and the many slashers before Friday the 13th)
3... Blar Witch Poject (Its has proven that if you take a bunch of kids in the woods with camcorders and have them run amouck without any true goal but as long as you could edit it would make a great movie [I dont this move was that great... ])
4... The Beast [Equalnox spell??? (This movie has spawned one of the best special effects artist of all time... Also, its a great movie that seem to help start Evil Dead)
5... Evil Dead... [Must see low budget movie]
6... Plan 9 from outspace... (called the worst movie for years until the early 1990's... now its one of the greatest movies ever... I do wish Ed Wood was alive when this happen)
7... Easy Rider (I dont like it, but it was a great B-movie)

Thats all I could think of...

[trala-log]

1. the pit
2. blood debts
3. mosquito
4.pirhana 2
5. shaft in africa
6. any gamera movie
7.  blades
8. hellraiser- hell-seeker
9. knightriders - with ed harris
10. chopper chicks from zombie town- with billybob thorton

[Chadzilla]

Damien01 wrote:

>
> 2... Friday the 13th (It have proven that a low budget slasher
> could make millions... Sorry, I think Friday the 13th has a
> lower budget then Halloween and the many slashers before Friday
> the 13th)
>

Actually Friday the 13th's budget was par for the course low (or no) budget wise.  It was 300,000 dollars (some sources have claimed 350,000).  Halloween's was 300,000 as well, as was Bill Lustig's Maniac when all the  math was done.  Halloween is still the champ though, made in 1978 for 300,000 and grossing in excess of 55 million dollars.  Friday the 13th was respectable hit, earning somewhere between17 to 20 million dollars...in 1980.  Both Sean Cunningham and Steve Miner (the men behind the movie) acknowledged the movie's title and technique was based on the success of Halloween, though Cunningham nicely points out that while Halloween is a refined suspense movie, Friday the 13th is more of a "meat and potatoes picture".  It is funny to note that the reason Friday the 13th looks so dark at times is not to generate suspense, it was because they did not have electricity to power the lights!

Friday the 13th did unleash Kevin Bacon on the world, though.  :-)

[Damien01]

Even thou Halloween's was released in 1978 the movie budget was from 1977 (and watching that movie you knew that movie had some kind of budget 300,000 or more dollars) Friday the 13th seemed to be far less (as you pointed out most shots were dark because of lack of lights) 300,000 for this movie from 1980 (or 79) is much different then 1977.

[Damien01]

Also to think about it Halloween also had "TV" edits made for the movie for when it was shown on TV [Not too many movies have "TV" edits]

[Evan3]

1) Halloween
2) An American Werewolf In Paris
3) Omen
4) Crocodile
5) Scream2
6) Without Warning
7) Exorcist
8) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake)
9) 13 Ghosts
10) Predator

These arent in any real order either

[Chadzilla]

Halloween's additional scenes were shot in 1981, when Carpenter had access to the cast and crew of the then shooting Halloween II.  NBC edits for content made Halloween too short for network airing, so it had to be padded.  Halloween, like many low budget exploitation movies, has no 'deleted' or alternate scenes, what they shot is what you got.

And the rate of inflation of just TWO YEARS isn't bad at all.  Halloween was shot in 28 days in May of 1978.  The major difference was that Halloween was shot in suburban Pasadena, California while Friday the 13th was shot in semi-rural New Jersey (at an actual Boy Scout Summer Camp, but you won't hear that on the promo material).  Come to think of it, Friday the 13th was only released in 1980.  It was shot in 1979 and shopped around to various distributors before Paramount bought it.  So we are talking a matter of months, not years.  That dog won't hunt.  Cunningham himself has stated that fans are shocked that the movie wasn't an over the top hit.  Still, at a production cost of 300,000 dollars, it made a bundle for somebody.  Ironic note - Halloween producer/screenwriter Debra Hill is from Haddonfield, New Jersey.  There is no Haddonfield, Illinois.

If you really want to see a low budget movie scraping by on a wing and a prayer, then check out Maniac, which was shot in New York City WITHOUT permits for 300,000.  Ironically Joe Spinell sweet talked the crew of the movie Nighthawks (in which he was playing a cop) to film a few coverage shots of him for Maniac when they were filming in New York!

Then there's the matter of that shotgun.

[Chadzilla]

My list of favorites?  In order of release...

1.) Jaws (1975)
2.) Halloween (1978)
3.) The Brood (1979)
4.) Maniac (1980)
5.) John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
6.) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
7.) Day of the Dead (1985)
8.) Tremors (1989)
9.) Session 9 (2001)
10.) Below (2002)

Honorable Mentions to
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Magnum Force (1973)
Grizzly (1976)
Rollercoaster (1977)
Shock Waves (1977)
Magic (1978)
Piranha (1978)
Prophecy (1979)
Alien (1979)
The Fog (1980)
Escape from New York (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) - This was the first one I saw, so it has a nostalgia points.
The Terminator (1984)
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part 6 (1986)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Miracle Mile (1989)
Darkman (1990)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)

I love a lot of movies!

[raj]

Good choices, I'd add Army of Darkness, (gotta get Bruce Campbell in there, plus some tongue-in-cheek humor
Re-Animator (Jeffrey  Combs, Barbara Crampton, based on an H.P. Lovecraft story)
The Blob (Steve McQueen and good old 1950's science fiction)

[Dr. Doom]

This isn´t in any particular order.

Syngenor
Commando
Evil dead 2
Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
Bridge of Dragons (Dolph Lundgren kicked ass in that movie)
Class of Nuke´em High
Demons in my head
Bad Taste
Night of the living dead
The Punisher

[Brother Ragnarok]

Never thought I'd see Syngenor on one of these lists...
Brother R

[JohnL]

>Never thought I'd see Syngenor on one of these lists...

I like Syngenor, I even like the first movie, Scared to Death.