Your Favorite Campy B-Movies

Brian DePalma 1974

My partner and I hit "Kung Fu Theater" at the the Hollywood Theater every second Tuesday of the month.  Confusing and goofy storylines, but amazing and bad ass martial arts action.   They recently showed this mash up of Spaghetti Western and Kung Fu, complete with a soundtrack ripped off from Sergio Leone's movies:

"The Thing with 2 Heads"

Starring Academy Award winner Ray Milland(The Lost Weekend) and Roosevelt Grier(LA Rams Fearsome Foursome Defensive Lineman)

I always liked Ed Wood, which was not a B-movie, but that's its subject matter and it's campy, for sure.

The Toxic Avenger

Basket Case

Motel Hell

They Live

Tremors 

"Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies? Anybody? I LOVE monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheepnis in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps, but true cheepnis is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider . . . I'll tell you, a good one that I saw one time, I think the name of the film was "IT CONQUERED THE WORLD," Did you ever see that one? The monster looks sort of like an inverted ice-cream cone with teeth around the bottom. It looks like a (phew!), like a teepee or . . . sort of a rounded off pup-tent affair, and, uh, it's got fangs on the base of it, I don't know why but it's a very threatening sight, and then he's got a frown and, you know, ugly mouth and everything, and there's this one scene where the, uh, monster is coming out of a cave, see? There's always a scene where they come out of a cave, at least once, and the rest of the cast . . . it musta been made around the 1950's, the lapels are about like that wide, the ties are about that wide and about this short, and they always have a little revolver that they're gonna shoot the monster with, and there is always a girl who falls down and twists her ankle . . . heh-hey! Of course there is! You know how they are, the weaker sex and everything, twisting their ankle on behalf of the little ice-cream cone."

-Frank Zappa

It Conquered The World

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHarPB15kQ8

Cheepnis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMR6blBp1mw

Plan Nine from Outer Space (more like a C-)

Karloff? Sidekick? Fuck you! Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in hell for all I care

The greatest B movie of all time....

He went searching for love... but Fate forced a DETOUR to Revelry... Violence... Mystery!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037638/

This is one of the all-time great examples of film noir. It can practically be used to define the genre: shadowy black and white cinematography; a star-crossed protagonist ("...fate sticks out a leg to trip you."); a femme fatale (the unforgettable Ann Savage as Vera); cynical voice-over narration; ambiguous morality. All these elements are brought together magnificently by director Edgar G. Ulmer, who incredibly made this movie in several days on a shoestring budget. His direction is so masterful that the low budget sets only add to the film. This is a great masterpiece and one of the marvels in film history.

Monolith Monsters

The Attack of the Crab Monsters

Does Repo Man qualify? Great soundtrack too

Cheepnis percussion

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoKiREU3NI

I have to say, for recent B movies Pirhana 3D is fucking awesome! I saw another one that was great, but can't remember the name.

Just found it - Deathgasm

Definitely worth watching!

This was a favorite video store rental......

Bloodsucking Freaks isn't a B movie. It's in a category unto itself!

My favorite scene is when the crazy doc drills into the brain, swishes the drill bit around in there for a while, then sticks a straw in and slurps it out.

Hey Brian - yeah, you're right that it is in a category unto itself.  That is quite a scene!

more like a campy C movie. John Carpenter's- They Live. The protagonist, played by 'Rowdy Roddy Piper' finds sunglasses that allows him to see beyond the surface, realizing that the elite are actually aliens that are controlling the population by using subliminal messaging in tv, billboards, etc..leading people to obey & conform...from what I remember he just goes around shooting all the aliens. Here's a ridiculously overdone 6 min fight scene with Roddy & Keith David. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns