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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Alone in the Dark
1982, in 1 top list Check -
72 new
Ator 2: L'invincibile Orion
1982 — a.k.a. The Blade Master, in 0 top lists Check -
47 new
The Barbarians
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
77 new
Basket Case
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
79 new
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Ben & Arthur
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
61 new
Bibleman
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
99 new
The Big Doll House
1971 — a.k.a. Bamboo Dolls House, in 0 top lists Check -
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror
2010, in 1 top list Check -
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Black Samurai
1977 — a.k.a. Black Terminator, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Blob
1958, in 5 top lists Check -
86 new
The Blob
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
18 new
Braindead
1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 8 top lists Check -
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C.H.U.D.
1984, in 1 top list Check -
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Can que
1978 — a.k.a. Crippled Avengers, in 2 top lists Check -
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Chopping Mall
1986, in 1 top list Check -
34 new
Class of Nuke 'Em High
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
28 new
Cui hua kuang mo
1993 — a.k.a. Undefeatable, in 0 top lists Check -
42 new
Cyborg
1989, in 1 top list Check -
78 new
Dark and Stormy Night
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
57 new
Deadly Prey
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
93 new
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
1977, in 1 top list Check -
38 new
Death Race 2000
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
56 new
Dinosaur Island
1994, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dolemite
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
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Double Trouble
1992, in 0 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 -
43 new
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 — a.k.a. The Blood Suckers, in 1 top list Check -
58 new
Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi
1976 — a.k.a. Master of the Flying Guillotine, in 3 top lists Check -
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Enter the Ninja
1981 — a.k.a. Ninja I, in 0 top lists Check -
49 new
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1965 — a.k.a. The Leather Girls, in 8 top lists Check -
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FDR: American Badass!
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
71 new
Feast
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
63 new
The Final Sacrifice
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
95 new
Foodfight!
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
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Foxy Brown
1974, in 3 top lists Check -
53 new
Future War
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
101 new
The Giant Claw
1957, in 1 top list Check -
73 new
The Gingerdead Man
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
29 new
The Haunted Palace
1963, in 1 top list Check -
37 new
Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988, in 1 top list Check -
100 new
Hercules in New York
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
81 new
Hobgoblins
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
12 new
House on Haunted Hill
1959, in 1 top list Check -
21 new
I Am Here... Now
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
98 new
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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Iron Sky
2012, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on May 12, 2014; source