100 essential SF B-movies, as chosen by you!

[Rev. Powell]

80. Battle Beyond the Stars

[JaseSF]

79. The Angry Red Planet: Who will ever forget the bat-rat-spider monster? And indeed this film features another memorable monster or two to boot. Groovy fun once we get to Mars.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/angryred/

[Cult Movie Mania]

78. Starcrash.  We can't leave out Marjoe...and Ms. Munro.

[Rev. Powell]

77. This Island Earth (1955)

[RCMerchant]

the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER (1957 )

An astounding film. One of my z-budget favorites! Shirly Kilpatrick glows in the dark, and the love between Keene Duncan and his drunken moll is priceless!!! A must for BAD movie fans,geologists who love dogs...and "alcoholics"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apxv3yhNHz8

-Drunken moll : "How would you like me? Pan fried or french fried?"
-  Keene : "Any way ya do it,you come out a mess."

   

[peter johnson]

75:  Metropolis (1927)

Fritz Lang's masterpiece was ripped off time and again.  The huge, sweeping panorama of The City of the Future with its flying cars & etc. has been seen in everything from Things to Come to Futurama and The Jetsons since.  Hitler so fell in love with this picture that he sent Goebbels in 1933 to ask Lang to be the head of Nazi cinema, before he approached Leni Revensthal.  Lang asked Goebbels if he could think about it, and went into the other room & out the window & caught the next train to Paris, literally leaving Goebbels sitting in his abandoned apartment.
The mad scientist Rotwang would appear again and again over the next few decades in various incarnations, and tends to appear to this day in any crazy doctor scene.  And who can forget the transformation of mechanoid to android, with the electricity and the flashing lights?  Just a beautiful picture, and essential to any film list of science fiction.
peter johnson/denny crane

[JaseSF]

Not sure I agree with Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still or even Quatermass and the Pit being on a B-movie list but hey's, that's subjective I guess. All 3 would be on my essential good SF movies list. Anyways on to #74:

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster/Mars Invades Puerto Rico (1965):

An invading alien ship attacks a space shuttle manned by an android Earth astronaut named Frank sending it crashing to the ground in Puerto Rico. Later, the alien ship lands and attempts to destroy Frank but only ends up disfiguring him and damaging his circuits causing him to go on a killing rampage. Meanwhile the alien plot upon the Earth is carried out under the orders of the space Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold),who demands her minions bring back fertile Earth female specimens with which she hopes to repopulate her dying world, and her assistant Nadir (Lou Cutell), who looks like an evil and thoroughly corrupt Vulcan.

A must see for any B-movie fan.

[brooky1969]

73. Saturn 3

Farrah Fawcett in space!

[JaseSF]

72. Flight To Mars (1951): arguably the film that set the standard for many to come. Rocket ships, meteor showers, soap opera love affairs in space, leggy alien women and more.

[JJ80]

- "They Live" - Republicans form Outer Space!
- "Queen Of Blood" - Beware the Green Woman!
- "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" - Will "It" manage to kill the crew before they accidentally destroy themselves?
- "Trancers" - Will Jack D'eth prevent the council from full temporal erasure?
- "The Brain Eaters" - Parasites from beneath the earth and Leonard Nimoy!

[Kester Pelagius]

Seems to be a bit of confusion with that last post so I'll second "Queen Of Blood" and add my own, thus bringing the list up to. .

70. Planet of the Vampires

[RCMerchant]

69. EARTH vs. the FLYING SAUCERS ! Long before the ridicoulous INDEPENDENCE DAY ,you could see DC wiped out by animated flying saucers (much cooler than todays hi-tech alien ships) in this Harryhausen classic!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4fdX8gUMY
Wow...the aliens got a big flat screen TV! ( Yet the hillbilly family down the street have a much bigger one...in a trailer yet!!!)
...it makes me fell all warm and mushy to see Washngton blown to bits by cool looking UFO's! 

[brooky1969]

68. Spacehunter

Molly Ringwald in space!

[Rev. Powell]

67.  X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6L3VGrKRk&feature=related

Ray Milland's most challenging role since LOST WEEKEND is as a scientist who develops a potion that lets him see through ladies clothes when their backs are turned to him!

[Rev. Powell]

Not sure I agree with Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still or even Quatermass and the Pit being on a B-movie list but hey's, that's subjective I guess. All 3 would be on my essential good SF movies list.

I nominated DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and I'd be willing to withdraw it if others agree it's inappropriate for the list.  It was made by 20th Century Fox, although I bet that it being 1951 and sci-fi that it was done by the B-unit.  I thought that in the Hollywood studio system up to some point in the 1960s, pretty much every science fiction movie that was released was a "B" picture!