B-Movies And Awful Films

[BAYLOR]

Utterly goofy, although some viewers may be interested in the dominatrix-like title character.

Its off the wall , goofy and stilly .

 

[KGeo777]

Last night I started watching Without Warning 1980 (also called The Warning, contrarily). Very low budget, sci-fi horror, pre-dating and often compared with Predator. I plan to finish it this evening.

It has a lot of bad IMDB ratings but I think it is a very good inventive low budget film. The cast is good--including the young leads.
And some amusing "walked in off the street" cameos like Ralph Meeker and Neville Brand as bar flies. "Get him a beer Aggy!"

 

[BAYLOR]

It has a lot of bad IMDB ratings but I think it is a very good inventive low budget film. The cast is good--including the young leads.
And some amusing "walked in off the street" cameos like Ralph Meeker and Neville Brand as bar flies. "Get him a beer Aggy!"

Staring Jack Palance , Ive not seen this one but , in the show At The movies Gene Sikel and Roger Ebert were not impressed by this one. Chief complaint was you don't see the Alien until nearly very end and that was only time that the film was interesting, according to them . One them quipped that the film should have been called It Came too Late.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Staring Jack Palance , Ive not seen this one but , in the show At The movies Gene Sikel and Roger Ebert were not impressed by this one. Chief complaint was you don't see the Alien until nearly very end and that was only time that the film was interesting, according to them . One them quipped that the film should have been called It Came too Late.

That could actually be considered a virtue. The whole "less is more" Val Lewton thing.

I saw this was it was first released in theaters and thought it was pretty good.

 

[KGeo777]

Staring Jack Palance , Ive not seen this one but , in the show At The movies Gene Sikel and Roger Ebert were not impressed by this one. Chief complaint was you don't see the Alien until nearly very end and that was only time that the film was interesting, according to them . One them quipped that the film should have been called It Came too Late.

Well this is the thing--I think in those days people took actors for granted--and so they didn't think anything about it as a benefit to a movie--and they were more demanding of Fx thrills--and this came out after Star Wars and ALIEN. If you judge it by that--then it is a cheap alien monster movie.
But, if you look beyond the desire for FX innovation (which it does have--the frisbee aliens are unique), and just accept it as a monster movie set in a forest...I don't think one can fault it.
I would argue it has more characterization than ALIEN. The young people act realistically, with naturalistic humor.
One of the best moments is when Taylor and Sandy are all set to trap the alien and then we see Sarge behind them.
For a story set around a water utility shed--it is very well-made.

The Flesh Eaters is another one like that. Set on a beach but very cleverly made.

 

[BAYLOR]

Well this is the thing--I think in those days people took actors for granted--and so they didn't think anything about it as a benefit to a movie--and they were more demanding of Fx thrills--and this came out after Star Wars and ALIEN. If you judge it by that--then it is a cheap alien monster movie.
But, if you look beyond the desire for FX innovation (which it does have--the frisbee aliens are unique), and just accept it as a monster movie set in a forest...I don't think one can fault it.
I would argue it has more characterization than ALIEN. The young people act realistically, with naturalistic humor.
One of the best moments is when Taylor and Sandy are all set to trap the alien and then we see Sarge behind them.
For a story set around a water utility shed--it is very well-made.

The Flesh Eaters is another one like that. Set on a beach but very cleverly made.

Ive seen The Flesh Eaters It was a very good film

Film you might find of interest is Caltikihe Immortal Monster 1959 . It's an early Mario Brava film . It concerns a treasure in well in which there exist a giant flesh eating blob like organism. It's got some pretty gizzly scenes.

 

[Peter A]

Anybody seen The Blood Rose from 1970? I wanted to watch it on YouTube, but I got hit with a notice to verify my age.

 

[BAYLOR]

Anybody seen The Blood Rose from 1970? I wanted to watch it on YouTube, but I got hit with a notice to verify my age.

Never heard of it.

 

[Peter A]

I watched a movie called The Lift with poor picture quality, directed by this guy in the Netherlands who produced some music videos for the rock group, Golden Earring.

The plot concerns an elevator system that variably kills people, including causing a blind man to fall down the shaft when it opens up. I thought it was a decent watch. I just wish some of these were free to watch on something else online other than on YouTube, since people upload movies on there in such terrible, almost unwatchable quality. Probably way worse than viewing a 40 year old VHS tape left laying in a dusty box. It's usually that awful.

 

[BAYLOR]

Night of the Comet 1984 a comet passing close by earth destroys most of the people leaving behind a few normal unaffected survivors and flesh earring Zombies . This film is definitely B movie fare and it's quite good.