Zombi 2 aka Flesh Eating Zombies by Lucio Fulci.
It's sooooooo good. And has one of the best scenes ever.
If you like cheesy 80-90s scifi horror, yeahNot as a raise to that specific post you did not.
Ner ner!
Wait, were these worth watching? Please tell me they are...
My GOAT is Kickboxer 4 starring Cody from Step by Step. I had no idea 2 or 3 even existed. It's an Enter the Dragon rip off where Tong Po, who is now a drug cartel leader and "visionary record producer", hosts a martial arts contest. Cody has to infiltrate the tournament to save his wife, and even though it's established that he is Tong Po's arch nemesis none of the goons seem to recognize him until the final fight.
Did I mention Tong Po has horrible "Asian" makeup and a painfully obvious bald cap?
Those shitty Godfrey Ho ninja films are great in a shitty way
It's fun trying to figure out what the plot of the original movie was before they badly dubbed it over and made it about some ninja empire thing
Those shitty final battles are also amazing
my fave Godzilla movie as well, plus Gigan stops inGodzilla vs Megalon
The movie was very clearly low budget. The "night time" shots are clearly just darkened day time shots, to the point where you can clearly see the sun reflecting off of car windshields. Tons of recycled footage as well as stock footage pulled from other Godzilla movies is used. This movie was supposedly filmed in three weeks and the entire production time from pre-planning to finish was all done in six months.
Also, it gave us this gem of a moment.
Zombi 2 aka Flesh Eating Zombies by Lucio Fulci.
It's sooooooo good. And has one of the best scenes ever.
If we're going through the basics, watch Samurai Cop and The Room as soon as you can.
Then, once you get into the Z-grade movies, you're really into the good stuff.
I love absolutely everything Stuart Gordon has ever done. I even wrote him a letter to invite him to my wedding. He politely declined, but sent me an autographed Re-Animator theatre poster.
Don't think it's a true B-Movie, but one hidden gem I hardly ever see mentioned is Timecrimes.
It's a story about a middle-aged guy who sees his neighbour undressing, goes to have a closer look and then gets attacked by a bandaged man. He then goes to hide with a scientist and complications ensue. Quite tense and a bit of a headscratcher at times, but it has one part in particular that made me stop and rewind to check a tiny detail.
The middle aged guy travels in time and it's revealed that he was next to the machine all the time in the earlier scene - you can see his hand in the scene the first time you view it, but you wouldn't look for it until it's mentioned later
Trailer is also quite spoilery, I would stop after about 42 seconds if you want to go in blind!
Exotica. More of an arthouse/B movie. Fans of David Lynch will enjoy.
Most of those are not B movies. Actually most in this thread are not B moviesPretty much all dystopian/cyberpunk films:
Hardware
Screamers
Robocop (1 is great, but all of them are <3)
Johnny Mnemonic
Lawnmower Man
Hackers
Demolition Man
Total Recall
Running Man
Dark City
Brazil
et al
(Obviously some CP movies are GOATs such as Matrix and Blade Runner but yea)
Edit: fuckin' forgot Robot Jox!
Edit 2: oh my god I know some of these aren't B movies but I was 10 in 1995 and I have no idea what they were reviewed like, their budget, or anything else. I just remember seeing them on TV as a kid and loving them but being told later on they were shlocky scifi or not real films, etc.