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Favorite B-Movies? (self.movies)

submitted 2 days ago by Mooseford to c/movies@lemm.ee

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Wondering what people's favorite "bad" movies are. Can be low budget, box office flops, foreign, so bad it's good, whatever. I'm pretty big on Cannon Group stuff and cheesy Turkish pop cinema (Tarkan vs. the Vikings, etc.). Mostly go for 80s stuff as that's my generation.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Jennifer's Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly

Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy

Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken

If you're into 80s action/thriller The Guest is an homage that does a really good job, and has a unique soundtrack

Brick, early 2000s neo noir with the cast talking like a bunch of 1920s private eyes and gangsters. Like The Guest it was received well critically but just had a really small release.

Blue Underground has a bunch of stuff no streaming service would ever touch

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Jennifer's Body was impressive enough (when I saw it on a whim years after it came out) that I looked up its writer (Diablo Cody) and what else she'd done. Which led me to Young Adult. Wow! And: Ooof! Powerful stuff.

Or as one critic put it: "Young Adult may be the year's most engaging feel-bad movie".