![]() It’s also one of the earliest appearances of blaxploitation legend, Pam Grier, who will recur on this list. Jonathan Demme’s Caged Heat is a bit better known, but The Big Doll House is more sincere and less satirical. You know what you’re getting here: Nudity, abusive guards, a plethora of shower scenes and a daring escape. There are certain genres you have to check off in a list like this, and the “women in prison” film is a classic sub-type of the larger 1970s exploitation genre. It’s captivatingly bad because there’s so little evidence of the fun, campy actor he later became. ![]() The words are so flat and vapid, he’s like a muscle-bound Lennie Small. His line delivery was so unintelligible he had to be completely dubbed, but evidence of the original can still be found. A massive 22-year-old with zero acting experience or charisma, he’s absolutely lost in this thing, casually strolling around New York and competing as a pro wrestler. Universe” because “Schwarzenegger” was too long. Hercules in New York was his first feature film, credited as “Arnold Strong, Mr. Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger burst into the public consciousness with Conan the Barbarian and late night hosts mocked his stilted English? Well, that movie was made in 1982, after Arnold had been studying the language for more than a decade. The Giant Claw stands as a classic example of 1950s drive-in cheese. The poor actors weren’t even aware of how incredibly lame the monster would be until they saw the completed film, and by then it was too late. This thing-this “antimatter space buzzard,” as it is eventually called-is so laughably stupid that it’s hard to believe they actually chose to feature it so extensively in the trailer rather than hiding it from sight. The Giant Claw is not the most captivating of the classic 1950s “giant monster running amok” movies, but it must be seen exclusively for the fact that it features the goofiest-looking movie monster of all time. Here are the 100 best B movies of all time: Gathered here is a collection of some of the most entertainingly cheap and endearingly bad movies ever made. 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. Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. If these 100 films are painful, they’re also equally fun. ![]() 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. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are.īut 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. ![]() To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. 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. ![]() Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. ![]()
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