movies

Does Big Trouble in Little China count?

Otherwise, and in no particular order:

• UHF
• Six String Samurai
• Hudson Hawk
• Repo Man
• Hobo with a Shotgun
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
• Death Race
• Dead Alive
• WolfCop

The whole Tremors series

Jennifer's Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly

Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy

Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken

If you're into 80s action/thriller The Guest is an homage that does a really good job, and has a unique soundtrack

Brick, early 2000s neo noir with the cast talking like a bunch of 1920s private eyes and gangsters. Like The Guest it was received well critically but just had a really small release.

Blue Underground has a bunch of stuff no streaming service would ever touch

• Maniac Cop
• Anaconda
• Dean Koontz's Phantoms
• Ruthless
• Deep Blue Sea
• The Baker

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Iron Sky counts, right? Its budget is a bit high but it's a B-movie and it knows it.

• Deadly Prey
• Hard Ticket to Hawaii
• Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• Bad Taste
• Dead Alive
• Frankenhooker
• The Boys from Brazil
• Freaked
• The Lawnmower Man
• Lake Placid
• Legend of the Red Dragon aka New Legend of Shaolin (forget subtitles, the english dub is unhinged)
• Johnny Mnenomic
• Samurai Cop
• Six String Samurai
• Snake Hotel
• Space Truckers
• Surf Ninjas
• Tammy and the T-Rex
• Tiger on the Beat

Equilibrium https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/ A mixture of all dystopian sci-fi with a never seen before (or after, for obvious reasons) martial arts style called Gun-kata.

You're gonna laugh, but I have a lot of love for Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. How Tim Curry managed to chew the set that hard with horns that size is beyond my acting skill to comprehend. And the fact that Tom Cruise ran around saving unicorns from Satan with a motley crew of fairy sidekicks is a sentence gay enough to make me puke rainbows. I'm already gay, man, I puke rainbows all month during June.

Seriously, it's a good and awful movie. It has no plot, it's just aesthetic art. But if you want a really good fantasy movie about unicorns... The Last Unicorn. Full stop. It has made me cry since I was a child. Not a B Movie, just a cult classic.

But if you REALLY want a B movie? Time Bandits. How the hell Kenny Baker went from R2-D2 to one of the gremlin thieves on strike because God wouldn't let them have a turn on the time machine... I can't. And kidnapping The Generic English Schoolboy as their sidekick was just... interesting. At least Sean Connery did a great job as Agamemnon.

Death race 3000

Rollerball

Attack of the killer tomatoes

Malibu Beach

Coffee

Ilsa she Wolf of the SS (bad timing for sure)

Heavy Metal

Any Grindhouse or whateversploitation really. I also love effedupmovies (NSFW) webpage if you're into really weird shit.

Hard Rock Zombies

Street Trash

The Stuff

Toxic Avenger (the original, I haven't seen any of the others)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture

Slime City

Basket Case

Frankenhooker

These are my favourites so far, don't discount the new movies though, there's some really talented people making dumb movies right now in the spirit of the 80s B-movie!

• Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1986) (and the rest of Andy Sidaris' movies)
• Dead Alive (1992)
• Samurai Cop (1991)
• Lieutenant Jangles (2019)
• Panman (2011)
• The Greasy Strangler (2016)
• Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
• Furious (1984)
• Father's Day (2011)
• Miami Connection (1987)
• Orgazmo (1998)
• Lake Michigan Monster (2018)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Black Sheep (2007)
• Toxic Avenger (1984)
• Turkey Shoot (1982)
• Hell Comes to Frog town (1988)
• Blades (1988)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
• Terror vision (1986)
• Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991)
• Australiens (2015)
• Masters of the Universe (1987)
• Amsterdamned (1988)
• Gymkata (1984)
• Space Babes from Outer Space (2017)

Torque

If Fast and Furious was motorcycles, but was dreamed up by a coked up meth head https://youtu.be/Aqmze9kIvMU

Drive

Stars the guy who hosts Iron Chef and Brittany Murphy. Legit martial arts mixed in the middle of an insanely bad it's good movie. https://youtu.be/7y3sCYmqOz0

Many great recommendations.

Some other that I don't think were mentioned so far:

• The Baron Against the Demons / El barón contra los Demonios (2006) - Completely insane Spanish action/scifi

• Hellevator (2004) - Crazy Japanese scifi with action/horror elements

• Zone 39 (1996) - Cool low budget Australian cyberpunk-adjacent movie

• Nirvana (1997) - Excellent Italian cyberpunk thriller

• Shocking Dark (1989) - 80s Italian ripoff of two famous scifi/action movies from the time

• Webmaster / Skyygen (1998) - Solid Danish 90s style cyberpunk thriller

• Neon City (1991) - Solid post-apocalyptic flick

• Cold Harvest (1999) - Kungfu flick with a post-apocalyptic setting

• Def-Con 4 (1985) - Post-apocalyptic action/adventure

• Slipstream (1998) - Post-apocalyptic film with beautiful mountain cinematography, with Mark Hamil as the bad guy

• Cyborg (1989) - Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass in a post-apocalyptic future

• Radioactive Dreams (1984) - A strange mix of post-apocalyptic movie and 40s era pulp detective

• Nightflyers (1987) - 80s space horror based on a novel by George R R martin

• Terminal Invasion (2002) - Low budget The Thing ripoff with Bruce Campbell

• Shadowzone (1990) - Horror set on an isolated base

• Population 436 (2006) - A Stephan king style horror with Fred Durst

• The Langoliers (1995) - A unique, almost scif-fi, horror/thriller based on a Stephen King novella

• Black Mountain Side (2014) - Isolated norther research station horror

• Butterfly Kisses (2018) - A somewhat novel take on the found footage genre, has flaws though

• The Last Winter (2006) - Norther isolated research station horror

• The Presence / Danger Island (1992) - Solid thriller/horror tv movie.

• Cyber Bandits / A Sailor's Tattoo (1995) - Wholesome adventure/cyberpunk movies from the 90s with Martin Kemp

• Mars (1997) - Olivier Gruner visits a Martian colony to kick ass

• Alien Cargo (1999) - A somewhat well done TV movie Alien ripoff, but more a thriller than a horror

• Lord of the Deep (1989) - The Abyss ripoff (even more low budget than DeepStar Six and The Leviathan)

• Future Fear (1997) - Solid softcore action/scifi

• Hybrid (1997) - Solid softcore horror/action vaguely based on Alien

• Forbidden World (1982) - Softcore vaguely based on Alien

The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.

The Last Dragon, hands down.

Dunno if it counts but I'm a sucker for Jean Claude van Damme movies. And the only others I can think of off the top of my head are a couple of Albert Pyuun movies called Omega Doom and Knights, really bad sci-fi flicks. I actually need to save this thread for future watching material.

They Live and From Beyond are the two I immediately think of.

The Barbarians

Great (awful?) 80's musclebound heroes movie.

Many good titles were mentioned here. So as not to add to the repetition, I will add some obscure, but I think fun-to-watch, movies:

• Death Machine (1994)
• Disturbed (1990)
• Dark Angel (1990)
• Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
• Mind Ripper (1995)
• Swamp Thing (1982)
• Stuck on You (1983)
• Brain Donors (1992)
• Wedlock (1991)
• Blind Fury (1989)

The Bee Movie.

Suburban Sasquatch!

Dagon. It's basically HP Lovecraft's "Shadow Over Innsmouth" except it's set in probably Spain I think. It's silly and gorey and frankly terrifying, definitely worth the watch

https://youtu.be/jnS2MT-HBcw

Quentin Tarantino on Russ Meyer and "Super Vixens."

If you like movies you should know Russ.

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill

https://youtu.be/hHxvzuuwPGQ

Chalet Girl - Solid B level romcom with Bill Nighy, Ed Westwick, and Felicity Jones. Story is kinda plain, but it's one of my go to movies to cheer me up

Babylon was a massive bomb, and i dont understand why. I think it's a masterpiece.

Pig was another underappreciated masterpiece. When Nic Cage did his AMA on Reddit (one of the best ever), he said it was one of the acting jobs that he's most proud of. He deserved an Oscar for it, but wasn't even nominated. The screenplay, too.

• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
• Re-animator (1985)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars (1989)
• Dead Alive (1992)

Velocipastor is so much better than it has any right to be.

Helen Keller vs. Night Wolves has the most hilarious opening song and is the very definition of a B movie.

Super Hybrid is another B movie that has no right to be as good as it is. Highly recommend.

As mentioned in some other comments Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is an absolutely ridiculous romp from Troma.

I'm going with little known/flops.

Gataca Fandango Byrdy (might be Birdy, saw it when I was young) Head office (old HBO movie)

I really like Miami Connection. It’s so cheesy, but in an endearing way.