What is your favorite B-grade movie? And by that I mean the old, black-and-white flicks that used to be double features at the drive-in theater.
I have three: The Day The Earth Stood Still, where a benevolent but powerful alien comes to warn humanity about nuclear aggression, The Magnetic Monster, which is about a highly unstable and extremely magnetic new element that is going to implode the world, and The Thing From Another World, which is a trifecta of horror, scifi, and suspense surrounding the crash of a UFO at an Arctic research base and the subsequent emergence of a vampiric, humanoid monster comprised of plant matter. Note: with The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Thing, I mean the originals, not the remakes!
i don't know if the day the earth stood still was realy considerd a b movie but if it is original horror/syfi movies then i would have to say the first little shop of horrors.
don't know if the day the earth stood still was realy considerd a b movie
Content-wise, it was well above "B" standard but I included it because it's black-and-white sci-fi from the same era. I guess the category can be stretched a little here.
Were the Fearless Vampire Killers and Phantasm B movies? If so then here's my choice. What about Logan's Run? To be honest I don't know what is a B movie. Would the flix featuring Brinke Stevens fit in the category?
Were the Fearless Vampire Killers and Phantasm B movies? If so then here's my choice. What about Logan's Run? To be honest I don't know what is a B movie. Would the flix featuring Brinke Stevens fit in the category?
Phantom of the Opera.
Okay, first off I don't know of the first three movies you mentioned, so I don't know, and the Phantom of the Opera was a musical opera, so not "B-roll." As to the definition of a B-Grade movie, from Wikipedia:
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continued to be used in the broader sense it maintains today.
Sci-fi such as "The Blob", horror flicks like "Frankenstein," "spaghetti westerns," and some older war movies all fall into the category, but the most common interpretation refers to science fiction/horror movies. To be fair, the movies I listed at the top are not B-Grade by the original definition, but they can be included in the broader and more modern meaning. A good example of modern films following the original B-grade style is the Saturday evening movie of SyFy channel. Nine out of ten, they are totally lame with lots of blood and plots so thin, they're invisible. Do note though that the movies of my first post are not like that!
