Best 'B' movie?

[irocfan]

I was just watching Terminator and it got me thinking, is this the best 'B' movie ever? What other 'B' has achieved as much?

[Leon R]

Never considered Terminator to be a B movie since it had a big name director but of course he wasn't a big name then and it was certainly low budget.

Army of Darkness is pretty good and I also really like the evil dead films.

[Some Gump]

NOt usre your definition of B move is the same as mine! Terminator was a huge budget blockbuster, not a cheap and silly film!

wikipedia said:

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an arthouse film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music).

Is a great film though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCZ3whsoQY

[Leon R]

Some Gump said:

NOt usre your definition of B move is the same as mine! Terminator was a huge budget blockbuster, not a cheap and silly film!

wikipedia said:

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an arthouse film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music).

Is a great film though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCZ3whsoQY

The budget for Terminator was just over 6 million.

For perspective the budget for T2 was almost 100 million.

[Dr Jekyll]

I thought a B movie was what they showed before the main feature in the days before Pearl met Dean.

[robemcdonald]

[quote=Some Gump]NOt usre your definition of B move is the same as mine! Terminator was a huge budget blockbuster, not a cheap and silly film![quote]

It certainly was a cheap film. Budget was less than $7m much less than big star movies.

Actually I think terminator is a pretty good shout as a b movie.

[dudleybloke]

Terror firmer. A Troma classic.

[robemcdonald]

Tremors

[Europa1]

Dr Jekyll said:

I thought a B movie was what they showed before the main feature in the days before Pearl met Dean.

Me too.

[robemcdonald]

It is.

But these days it’s also used to refer to low budget genre type movies.

Usages of words and phrases moves on. For example: did you know gay has another meaning apart from being happy?

[FourWheelDrift]

The best - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389790/

[98elise]

robemcdonald said:

It is.

But these days it’s also used to refer to low budget genre type movies.

Usages of words and phrases moves on. For example: did you know gay has another meaning apart from being happy?

A B movie has always been low budget, but means it's supporting the main feature. It's the movie equivalent of the B side track on a single.

Terminator wasn't a B movie, it was a low budget movie.

[carl_w]

Balham: Gateway to the South

[robemcdonald]

Under this threads guidelines

d'artagnan's country. A documentary about wine making. It was on before ghost busters at the cinema in Rayners Lane...

I can see this being a short thread.

[sgtBerbatov]

Death Race 2000

[Antony Moxey]

Sharknado

[robemcdonald]

Antony Moxey said:

Sharknado

TV movie/ straight to DVD/ Streaming

[LuS1fer]

I liked Piper which was technically the B feature to one of the Toy Story films, IIRC.

https://youtu.be/DW8T9nvitLI

[tangerine_sedge]

robemcdonald said:

Tremors

A second vote for Tremors.

I guess, if we only include actual 'b' movies then it'll be a short list of pre 1980's movies that no-one remembers. Therefore I think it's valid to include cheap movies that would probably have been 'b' movies if they were still a 'thing'. IYSWIM.

I've never thought of Terminator as a 'b' movie, but I guess it counts (as in low budget).

[Evangelion]

Cat People. The 1942 original. Possibly also the first Film Noir.




(And certainly the first real B movie on this thread.)