B-movies: secret indulgences and cinematical equivalents of disco balls....

[skalogre]

Right!

Starting with this one for me: maybe not exactly a B-movie but hilariously strange (and rather vulgar - in a good way!)
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Kondom des Grauens
I mean, come on! How can you go wrong witha deranged condom - with teeth!
Oh and the condom-vision is more unsettling than the snake-o-vision!

Plus, an interesting tidbit: this is a German film about a murderous rubber that pays hommage to the most famous style of French-named German film genre made in Hollywood, the film noir

(Crap! Must..lower...brow...more

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And, one of my favourite Troma films (at least that I can think of)

 

[Violinist]

Havoc with Anne Hathaway.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

An American Werewolf in London
Big Trouble In Little China
Brick
Brother
Darkman
Death Race 2000
Dead-Alive
Donnie Darko
Frailty
Logan's Run
Night Of The Creeps
Pirahna
Ravenous
Reanimator
Repo Man
Slither
They Live!
Tremors
Zardoz

Best Troma movies are (in order) Class of Nuke Em High, The Toxic Avenger, and Troma's War. Special shout out to Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.

 

[skalogre]

Not a B-movie really but I love the premise: Full Metal gokudô

Reanimator is a great one. Have wanted to see Sgt. Kabukiman, I keep forgetting to look for it!

 

[Tokyo Slim]

skalogre, if you like Killer Condom, check out Penetration Angst.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366894/

 

[skalogre]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

skalogre, if you like Killer Condom, check out Penetration Angst.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366894/

Will have to look for that one! Thanks

Stelios

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by skalogre

Not a B-movie really but I love the premise:

Full Metal gokudô

Takashi Miike is one of my favorite directors.

 

[skalogre]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Takashi Miike is one of my favorite directors.
Yeah! Far from a b-movie director. Plus he has worked with Tsukamoto, how can you get better than that! Edit: have you picked up the book yet? http://www.midnighteye.com/features/agitator.shtml

 

[javyn]

Big Trouble in Little China doesn't belong on this list...It's a badass movie, no one should be ashamed to admit that. John Carpenter movies that aren't just another remake of Assault on Precinct 13 with an alien or monster = good.

Mine are:

Frankenhooker
Redneck Zombies (classic)
Toxic Avenger ("I've always wanted to cornhole me a blind *****!")
The Untold Story
Ebola Syndrome (Anthony Wong kicks ass)
Pink Flamingos

 

[Nick M]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

An American Werewolf in London
Big Trouble In Little China
Big Trouble's a classic. Kung fu, magic, Kurt Russell (who is himself quite magical) and a young Kim Cattrall, what more could anyone want?

American Werewolf I was on the fence with, until the scene of nonsensical mayhem right at the end, which abruptly cuts into Blue Moon by The Marcels. I laughed so, so very hard.

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Darkman
I will add to this list Darkman II: The Return of Durant and Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die. Although they weren't so much "good" as they were "not good".

 

[Get Smart]

I LOOVE Miike, but Full Metal Yakuza kinda sucked

my pic for fave B Movies

Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris)
Johnny Suede
CryBaby

 

[2000dB]

Good movies so far. I remember seeing Killer Condom on TV a few years ago, I didn't expect that. Full Metal Yakuza wasn't as captivating as other Miike movies for me. The last B movie I saw was Die You Zombie Bastards at the Fantasia festival, it was awesome!

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by javyn

Big Trouble in Little China doesn't belong on this list...It's a badass movie, no one should be ashamed to admit that. John Carpenter movies that aren't just another remake of Assault on Precinct 13 with an alien or monster = good.

I guess it all depends on what you consider a "b" movie. Big Trouble In Little China was widely panned on release, and dropped from most theaters in less than two weeks. So basically, any success its had is because of home video and word of mouth.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Nick M

American Werewolf I was on the fence with, until the scene of nonsensical mayhem right at the end, which abruptly cuts into Blue Moon by The Marcels. I laughed so, so very hard.

One of my favorite movies... The steadily decomposing dead figment of David's imagination that keeps appearing to crack jokes and beg him to kill himself...
classic.

 

[Ivan Kipling]

The Black Sexploitation movies, often starring Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, are abominations that I can't stop watching. The Big Bad Mamma movies, too, with Shelley Winters, and Angie Dickinson, are atrocious but fun. And of course, ALL of the Joan Crawford films from her 'deranged', virago period. BERSERK, STRAIGHT JACKET, BABY JANE, I SAW WHAT YOU DID, TROG . . . to an extent, some of JC'S 'good' movies, fall into this camp, as well? Queen Bee, and Harriet Craig, among them.