Films B-Movie Recommendations

I've seen Primer this weekend, about 4 times, I think I understand it now, but jesus....

 

Don't forget Revenge of the Nerds.

 

The satan Bug
When Worlds Collide
Invaders from Mars
Rollerball
Outland
Meteor
Saturn 3



and of course you haven't lived until you've seen Sean Connery in:
Zardoz

 

I heard when it was released, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc was a B-Movie

Gotta recommend flash gordon though, grade A awesome!

 

Equalibrium
Space Marine
Loch Ness
The Relic
Big Trouble in Little China

 

You leave Jack Burton alone.

 

Frankenfish
Killers From Space
Shark Attack 3
Bad Taste
Silent Night Deadly Night 2
Troll 2
Showdown in Little Tokyo

Just to name some of the top ones.

Shark Attack 3 is legendary and must be seen by all.

 

Leprichaun
Leprichaun 2 (how can you not like a cheesy horror about a really short psychotic creature played by an Ewok )

well you know what Jack Burton always says...

 

Oh, I almost forgot.

Story of Ricky.

Story of Ricky and Troll 2 are on google video.

 

cant remember if this has Jennifer Anniston in, might be the other one, but a good b-movie

Also try the Troll, Troll 2 and Krull - good films of the 80's.

Also the "GATE" its a horror, but bloody awesome, with a 10 year old Stephen Dorf saying the classic line "Suck my nose till my face caves in"

 

awesome film

 

Jennifer Anniston was indeed in the first one.

 

A few more that came to mind are:
Battle Beyond the Stars
The last StarFighter
The Blackhole(anyone who's watched season 3 of Heroes, will recognise one of the actors here)

 

Delicatessen
Flesh Gordon - Raper robots always made me laugh )
Dark City

 

Jon Boy Walton as Luke Skwalker, Hanibal Smith as Han Solo, Albert Stroller / Napoleon Solo as Lando Calrissian.

"Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada..."

 

That's a good 'un.
So was the Last Star Fighter.

Witchblade is good if you can find a copy. It was the pilot for the series with Yancy Butler (the girl from Hard Target/Dropzone) There's supposed to be a new Witchblade film due this year too .

The Crow: Stairway to heaven (basicly a re-telling of the classic original with Mark Decascos as Eric Draven, again the pilot for a series)

Tremors

 

Not really a B-movie though. More hard-core proper science fiction.

Interesting one, that. Although it had not yet been released when The Matrix had started production (1998; The Matrix came out in 1999), the visual style is all but identical. The Wachowski brothers had a limited imagination in more than one sense...

 

You want PROPER Sci-Fi B-movies?

Here's what one guy posted to a.b.m.scifi between mid October and New Year's.
Every one a winner!

=============== Through the 50's =================

1936 Things To Come
1940 Dr. Cyclops
1948 Unknown Island
1950 Destination Moon
1950 Rocketship X-M
1951 The Lost Continent
1951 The Thing from Another World
1951 When Worlds Collide
1953 Invaders from Mars
1953 It Came From Outer Space
1953 Spaceways
1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953 The Magnetic Monster
1953 War Of The Worlds
1954 GOG
1954 Godzilla (Gojira)
1954 Riders To The Stars
1954 Target Earth
1954 Them!
1954 Tobor The Great
1955 Conquest Of Space
1955 Creature With The Atomic Brain
1955 Cult Of The Cobra
1955 Day The World Ended
1955 Godzilla Raids Again
1955 It Came From Beneath The Sea
1955 Tarantula
1955 The Quatermass Xperiment
1956 Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
1956 Forbidden Planet
1956 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
1956 Rodan
1956 Satellite In The Sky
1956 The Mole People
1956 The Werewolf
1956 World Without End
1956 X: The Unknown
1957 20 Million Miles To Earth
1957 Attack Of The Crab Monsters
1957 Beginning Of The End
1957 Kronos
1957 Not Of This Earth
1957 Quatermass II: Enemy From Space
1957 The 27th Day
1957 The Abominable Snowman
1957 The Black Scorpion
1957 The Deadly Mantis
1957 The Giant Claw
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 The Invisible Boy
1957 The Land Unknown
1957 The Monolith Monsters
1957 The Mysterians
1958 Fiend Without A Face
1958 I Married A Monster From Outer Space
1958 It! The Terror From Beyond Space
1958 Missile To The Moon
1958 Monster From Green Hell
1958 Monster On The Campus
1958 The Blob
1958 The Crawling Eye
1958 The H-Man
1959 Battle In Outer Space
1959 First Man Into Space
1959 Invisible Invaders
1959 The Atomic Submarine
1959 The Giant Behemoth

=============== Through the 60's =================

1960 The Angry Red Planet
1960 The Human Vapor
1960 The Leech Woman
1960 The Time Machine
1961 Gorgo
1961 Mothra
1961 Mysterious Island
1961 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962 Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms)
1962 Varan The Unbelievable
1963 Atragon
1963 Matango (Attack Of The Mushroom People)
1964 Dogora, The Space Monster
1964 First Men In The Moon
1964 Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster
1964 Mothra vs. Godzilla
1964 Robinson Crusoe on Mars
1964 The Time Travelers
1965 Alphaville
1965 Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965 Invasion of Astro-Monster (Monster Zero)
1965 The 10th Victim (Decima vittima, La)
1965 The Satan Bug
1965 Wild, Wild Planet
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1966 Fantastic Voyage
1966 Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
1966 War Of The Gargantuas
1967 Battle Beneath The Earth
1967 Quatermass And The Pit
1967 Son of Godzilla
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Barbarella
1968 Destroy All Monsters
1968 King Kong Escapes
1968 Planet Of The Apes
1969 All Monsters Attack
1969 Latitude Zero
1969 Moon Zero Two

=============== Through the 70's =================

1970 Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
1970 Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 When Dinosaurs Rules The Earth
1971 Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
1971 Godzilla vs. Hedorah
1971 The Andromeda Strain
1972 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
1972 Godzilla vs. Gigan
1972 Slaughterhouse-Five
1973 Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
1973 Fantastic Planet
1973 Godzilla vs. Megalon
1973 Soylent Green
1973 The Neptune Factor
1974 Dark Star
1974 Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla
1974 Zardoz
1975 Terror of MechaGodzilla
1975 The Ultimate Warrior
1976 Logan's Run
1977 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
1977 War In Space
1979 Meteor
1979 The Black Hole
1979 The Dark
1979 The Quatermass Conclusion (4 parts)
1979 Time After Time
1979 Alien (Quadrilogy Special Editions)

=============== Through the 80's =================

1980 Battle Beyond the Stars
1980 Flash Gordon
1980 The Final Countdown
1980 The Lathe Of Heaven
1980 The Martian Chronicles (3 parts)
1981 Heavy Metal
2000 Heavy Metal 2000 (F.A.K.K.)
1981 Outland
1981 Time Bandits
1982 Blade Runner (The Final Cut)
1982 John Carpenter's The Thing
1982 Tron
1983 Videodrome
1984 2010: The Year We Make Contact
1984 Dreamscape
1984 Dune (Extended Edition)
1984 Godzilla Fantasia (3 parts)
1984 Night of the Comet
1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
1984 The Ice Pirates
1984 The Last Starfighter
1984 The Philadelphia Experiment
1984 The Return of Godzilla
1984 The Terminator
1991 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2003 Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
1985 Lifeforce
1985 The Quiet Earth
1986 Howard the Duck
1987 Innerspace
1987 Predator
1990 Predator 2
1987 Spaceballs
1987 The Hidden
1987 The Running Man
1988 Killer Klowns From Outer Space
1989 Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989 Leviathan
1989 Millennium
1989 The Abyss (Special Edition) (16:9 & 4:3 versions)

=============== Through the 90's =================

1990 I Come In Peace (aka Dark Angel)
1990 Total Recall
1991 Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1992 Godzilla vs. Mothra
1993 Coneheads
1993 Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II
1993 Jurassic Park
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2001 Jurassic Park 3
1994 Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994 Stargate
1994 Timecop
1995 12 Monkeys
1995 Godzilla vs. Destroyah
1995 Virtuosity
1996 Independence Day
1996 Mars Attacks
1996 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
1996 Rebirth of Mothra
1997 Rebirth of Mothra II
1998 Rebirth of Mothra III
1997 Event Horizon
1997 Gattaca
1997 Men In Black
2002 Men In Black II
1997 Mimic
1997 Starship Troopers
1997 The Fifth Element
1998 Armageddon (Criterion Edition)
1998 Dark City
1998 Lost In Space
1998 Soldier
1998 X-Files: Fight the Future
1999 eXistenZ
1999 Godzilla 2000
1999 The Thirteenth Floor
1999 The Matrix
2003 The Matrix Reloaded
2003 The Matrix Revolutions

================== Through 2008 ==================

2000 Dune, the mini-series (director's cut) (3 parts)
2003 Children Of Dune, the mini-series (3 parts)
2000 Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
2000 Mission To Mars
2000 Pitch Black
2004 Chronicles Of Riddick
2000 Red Planet
2000 Supernova
2000 The Cell
2000 Titan A.E.
2001 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2001 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
2001 K-Pax
2001 Planet Of The Apes
2002 Equilibrium
2002 Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
2002 Minority Report
2002 Resident Evil
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction
2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration
2002 Signs
2002 The Mothman Prophecies
2002 The Time Machine
2003 Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
2003 Hulk
2003 Paycheck
2003 The Core
2004 Alien vs. Predator
2007 Alien vs. Predator - Requiem
2004 Godzilla: Final Wars
2004 I, Robot
2004 The Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut)
2004 The Day After Tomorrow
2004 Trippin' The Rift
2005 Aeon Flux
2005 Doom (Unrated)
2005 Fantastic Four
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2005 Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2005 Serenity
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
2005 The Island
2005 War Of The Worlds
2005 Zathura
2006 Children of Men
2006 The Sinking of Japan
2006 Ultraviolet (Unrated)
2007 The Man From Earth
2007 Tin Man (3 parts)
2007 Transformers
2008 Iron Man
2008 The Incredible Hulk
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2005 Serenity <- sad that this is a BMovie, but anybody who hasnt seen it needs to.

Not to nitpick, but some of them 2000-2008 films did not seem like B Movies at all. Minority Report ? Iron Man ? Hitchhikers Guide ? Incredible Hulk ? All massive films!

Also... THE MATRIX ? A BMOVIE ? One of the greatest films of all time, with Keanu Reeves? That big hollywood A list actor ? That list is full of ****!

 

I'll admit there are quite a few blockbusters mixed in there, but also a metric a**load of B-movies.

I also love Serenity, especially having met half the cast (Mal, Kaylee & River)!