The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love

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"Once the B movie was the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature. Today it is a more inclusive category, embracing films that fall outside the mainstream by dint of their budgets, their visions, their grit, and occasionally—sometimes essentially—their lack of what the culture cops call 'good taste'."

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  1. 38 -

    7 Men from Now

    1956, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 47 -

    American Hot Wax

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 53 -

    Beat the Devil

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 34 -

    The Big Bus

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 21 -

    The Brother from Another Planet

    1984, in 1 top list Check
  6. 45 -

    The Buddy Holly Story

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 17 -

    The Conversation

    1974, in 23 top lists Check
  8. 52 -

    The Core

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 6 -

    Crime Wave

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 14 -

    Croupier

    1998, in 1 top list Check
  11. 1 -

    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
  12. 59 -

    Eraserhead

    1977, in 20 top lists Check
  13. 26 -

    The Fly

    1958, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 39 -

    Forty Guns

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 48 -

    The Girl Can't Help It

    1956, in 7 top lists Check
  16. 49 -

    Greendale

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 15 -

    Grindhouse

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  18. 2 -

    Gun Crazy

    1950, in 17 top lists Check
  19. 44 -

    Heroes for Sale

    1933, in 1 top list Check
  20. 29 -

    I Walked with a Zombie

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  21. 20 -

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
  22. 46 -

    King Creole

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 5 -

    Kiss Me Deadly

    1955, in 20 top lists Check
  24. 10 -

    The Last Seduction

    1994, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 36 -

    Man of the West

    1958, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 43 -

    Man on a String

    1960 — a.k.a. Confessions of a Counterspy, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 30 -

    May

    2002, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 54 -

    Mona: The Virgin Nymph

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  29. 7 -

    Murder by Contract

    1958, in 5 top lists Check
  30. 35 -

    The Naked Spur

    1953, in 10 top lists Check
  31. 58 -

    Night of the Living Dead

    1968, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 11 -

    One False Move

    1991, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 3 -

    Out of the Past

    1947, in 16 top lists Check
  34. 16 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  35. 4 -

    Pickup on South Street

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  36. 55 -

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  37. 40 -

    Platoon

    1986, in 21 top lists Check
  38. 12 -

    Point Blank

    1967, in 15 top lists Check
  39. 42 -

    The President's Analyst

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
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    Pretty Poison

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 22 -

    Primer

    2004, in 6 top lists Check
  42. 27 -

    The Rage: Carrie 2

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 23 -

    Red Planet Mars

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 9 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  45. 56 -

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    1975, in 13 top lists Check
  46. 41 -

    Salvador

    1986, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 28 -

    The Son of Kong

    1933 — a.k.a. Son of Kong, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 24 -

    The Space Children

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Stepfather

    1987, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 31 -

    Stranger Than Paradise

    1984, in 14 top lists Check
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