Classic B Sci Fi

Princess Ivy

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I'm sitting down to enjoy a tirple bill of early and just plain b sci-fi. Flash Gordon, The Incredible hulk (with lou feregnio and thor) and the Phantom with Billy Zane.
Will be a good night.:D
anyone else enjoy this sort of classic sci-fi?
(might make it a quarted and include the rocky horror picture show.)
 
I don't know that you could call The Phantom (the movie, at least) classic. What the hell was all that with the magic ring? Still, it did provide fodder for the three-parter The Secret of the Skulls, which was the highlight of the comic for 2003 and quite simply stunning. A real return to the over the top action and derring-do of yester-year. That and the one about Kali were my two favourites.

I spent last night watching Ninja Scroll and Spirited Away, and have ordered Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe using all of my expendable cash until wednesday-week. It looked worth it, though, what with all the giant statues and the like, but now I have to wait two weeks. I am impatient.
 
My version of Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe has an option to watch it in 3D. All I need to do now is buy the special video convertor and geek glasses and I'm cooking with gas :D
 
The Phantom ain't Sci-Fi or Classic... Sorry Ivy, you get 5million points deducted for that!!! :D

You want classic Sci-Fi: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, This Island Earth, When Worlds Collide and Forbidden Planet...
 
: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, This Island Earth, When Worlds Collide and Forbidden Planet...

Got them all. How many points do I get? :D
 
I watched Logan's Run yesterday... I need some more of these videos, great fun to watch, but I can't think where to buy them. I don't buy things online.
 
Department store discount bins, the racks outside of news-agents, and viseo shops (be they used-video retailers or just regular ones with clearances on). I live in the second largest city in my state, and I can't find zip half the time unless I rent. Only one shop in all of Geelong seems to stock King Kong, and none appear to have many Harryhausen films aside from the Clash of the Titans. The Sam Jones version is the only Flash Gordon available, and even the Night of the Living Dead is scarce. It was hard enough before the DVD revolution, but now they're just clearing VHS stock and not bothering to track-down the DVD re-releases of so many great films. Ire.
 
Actually, it just occured to me that The Phantom always has mail-order options in front for old sf serials. You should check the fronts of the cheaper comics and the like and see if they follow the trend over there.
 
Princess Ivy said:
I'm sitting down to enjoy a tirple bill of early and just plain b sci-fi. Flash Gordon, The Incredible hulk (with lou feregnio and thor) and the Phantom with Billy Zane.
Will be a good night.:D
anyone else enjoy this sort of classic sci-fi?
(might make it a quarted and include the rocky horror picture show.)
Not sure if the Lou Ferrigno Hulk would count as SF...it's just a really big green guy against assorted mobsteres scenario...no real exploration of scientific jingo nor any super-powered battles (likely because the TV studio couldn't afford any of that stuff)
 
The Master™ said:
You want classic Sci-Fi: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, This Island Earth, When Worlds Collide and Forbidden Planet...
Don't forget "Invaders From Mars" and "The Blob" (which, while it isn't in black and white, is classic and - as an extra added bouns - has Steve McQueen in it).:D
 
And if we go into fantasy, the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad is essential. And the original Lost World. King Kong. Jurassic Park is a modern sf/fantasy/monster-movie classic. Barbarella.
 
Sorry not to be specific in my original post, although I consider the Phantom to be SFF, no I don't consider it to be classic original, but I do consider it to be contemporary bad. In the best way possible:)
 
In Canada, we have a sci fi, B-movie, drive in classic television station, it ain't free, but it's pretty cheap.

It shows some amazing old movies. I watched Psycho's in Love the other day (I hate grapes, I hate green grapes, I hate red grapes. I hate grapes with seeds and without seeds, in small bunches, one at a time and in small groups of 2 and 3, I f-ing hate grapes.) and the Blob.

I figure if I keep watching it I'll see all those great oldies.
 
Another one of my favorite B-movies, although most agree that it is more classically bad than really classic, is "The Mole People" (1956). It is just one of those flicks (can't bring myself to call it a "film", and hardly even to call it a "movie") that is so bad that it's endearing. It's so bad, in fact, that one of the actors in it, Hugh Beaumont, was condemned to spend the next several years playing Beaver Cleaver's dad in "Leave it to Beaver".:p

I haven't seen this one in a long time. Be a kick to see it again.
 
If you want brilliantly bad 'B' it's got to be 'The Creeping Terror'. A carpet that invades the earth (you can actually see the shoes of the people under it as it moves). It wreaks havoc for a while and is eventually put out of its misery by a.........hand grenade!!! :eek:
I
t just had no answer to Man's technological miracle.
 
Master of the World 1961 staring Vincent Price and Chales Bronson . Based on two Jules Verner stories Master of the world and Robur the Conquer . :cool:
 
Cyborg 1967 staring Michal Rene as a Cyborg who has come back in time to prevent a terrible future for mankind.
 

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