Paste Magazine's The 100 Best “B Movies” of All Time
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From Paste: Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw their way into existence without the benefit of things like “a budget” or “a script” in some cases. To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are.
But what does “best” mean when we’re talking about films often famous for their shoddy construction? It certainly doesn’t mean “best-made.” It also doesn’t mean “worst-made,” or else films like Manos: The Hands of Fate and The Beast of Yucca Flats would make prominent appearances. They’re not on this list because the meaning of “best” here is “most entertaining,” and I defy you to be entertained by Manos without its MST3k commentary or a pound of medical-grade marijuana. If these films are painful, they’re also equally fun.
Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. Although John Carpenter’s Halloween is a great example of a superbly made “B movie” in terms of budget, any film fan has most likely seen it already. Gathered here is a collection of some of the most entertainingly cheap and endearingly bad movies ever made.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Return of the Living Dead
1985, in 3 top lists Check -
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
1965 — a.k.a. Dr. G and the Bikini Machine, in 0 top lists Check -
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Chopping Mall
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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The Roller Blade Seven
1991, in 0 top lists Check -
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Time Chasers
1994, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
2001, in 1 top list Check -
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988, in 1 top list Check -
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Death Race 2000
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
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Cyborg
1989, in 1 top list Check -
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It Came from Beneath the Sea
1955 — a.k.a. Monster from Beneath the Sea, in 0 top lists Check -
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
1988, in 3 top lists Check -
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Future War
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
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C.H.U.D.
1984, in 1 top list Check -
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The Tingler
1959, in 4 top lists Check -
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Kingu Kongu no gyakushû
1967 — a.k.a. King Kong Escapes, in 1 top list Check -
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The Stuff
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
66 new
Megaforce
1982, in 1 top list Check -
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The Valley of Gwangi
1969 — a.k.a. The Lost Valley, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pánico en el Transiberiano
1972 — a.k.a. Horror Express, in 1 top list Check -
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X
1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check -
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Robot Monster
1953 — a.k.a. Monster from Mars, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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Hobgoblins
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Piranha
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Blob
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Blob
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
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Prophecy
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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Iron Sky
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Giant Claw
1957, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on May 12, 2014; source