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A blacker — and funnier — look at Electric Grandmothers…

A children’s film with lots of bare boobs.  Only Disney, right?

George Melies returns in an animated VR short…

 We only have 48 hours to save the world from Brett Piper’s Blob-monster!

Turn off your radio!  Aliens are after our women!

Peter Jackson’s homemade splatter comedy debut.  Demented fun

  • Bakterion

See Panic (1982)

Dark, grim and desaturated take on colorful psychedelic kids’ show.  Bleah

Not a sequel, but a wild ride through the same world…

A young slacker repair man faces off against a Possessed heater

If Feeders was the Polonia Brothers’ Independence Day, then this is Robot Jox

  • Battle Heater (1989)

See Batoru hîtâ

Nanomachines, zombies and big, spiky alien wheels.  All on a budget

A man accidentally receives a serial killer’s memories.  Elegant Chinese thriller

Dolph Lundgren battles zombies with the help of Killer Robots.  Really

Road Warrior hero battles a villain with a…  (Don’t make me say it!)

  • The Batwoman (1968)

See La mujer murcielago

Early Mad Scientist film — from Mexico

I’d tell you the story but it keeps changing.  Yes, it came from Turkey!

The perfect heist, the perfect getaway…except for that darn spider-monster!

A monster movie made by a…TV Station in Kansas?  Seriously

  • BEAST OF THE BERING SEA (2013)

See Bering Sea Beast

I feel so bad for poor Tor Johnson…

  • BEASTS DON’T LOOK AT THEMSELVES IN A MIRROR (1976)

See Memoria

  • The Beautiful Dreamer (1952)

See El bello durmiente

  • Beauty Head of the Haunted House (1989)

See  Xiong zhai mei ren tou

Roger Corman, Killer Bees, and ancient John Carradine…

Eternal youth comes with a price.  Who knew?

  • Before We Vanish (2017)

See Sanpo suru shinryakusha

A man dreams of life in the future.  Getting there is the hard part…

You never know what radiation will do next…

Is it even possible that Sammy Petrillo is more annoying than Jerry Lewis?

  • Belle (2021)

See Ryû to sobakasu no hime

Tin Tan Mexican Caveman comedy

  • Bend It! Spoon (2009)

See Magare! Supûn

  • Beneath the Bermuda Triangle (1997)

See Time Under Fire

Sea Vampires!

The real explanation for the Devil’s Triangle:  a giant alien monster!

Mind controlled sharks from Atlantis or something silly like that…

  • LA BESTIAS NO SE MIRAN AL ESPEJO (1976)

See Memoria

Computer games, mind control and Action movie nonsense

Earnest attempt to adapt the unadaptable.  Kudos for trying.

Not so much a sequel as an unsuccessful parody

Tame film about creepy fish men…

Will the lunatics run the Asylum after the bomb drops?…

It’s a sequel

  • Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)

See Droste no hate de bokura

Moby Dick in Spaaaaace…  Only not too bad

Lost Kaiju Eiga film.  Not to mention begged, borrowed and stolen…

  • The Big Calamity (1976)

See Zhan shen

The kind of film Pixar used to make

A solid Australian crime thriller.  With mad scientists stuck in at the end…

Pleased to meet you, Meat to please you.  Delightfully odd Canadian SF musical

Big Octopus goes after its kid.  Mass destruction and giant Chinese monster movie ensue

A weird and very funny robots run amuck comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Breeds with Anything! The Biggest Monster Since King Kong!

The Asylum’s King Kong rip off, complete with Kong climbing famous landmark

  • Bigfoot Among Us (2004)

See Among Us

A dead Bigfoot, a TV special, and something…else

Weird, but not in a good way.  Exceedingly talky

Legendary boys’ adventure hero and a time travelling TV dinner CEO!

Ed Wood, the Asteroid belt, and lots of big…well, you know

Badly rendered dinosaurs, girls in bikinis and…cheese?…

Solid adaption of Karel Capek’s play…

Bloody Russian Time Travel film — with just a smidgen of Primer

Wild and funny slacker time traveler comedy.  Better than the original

Alex Cox takes on Harry Harrison.  And loses

 Routine Fred Olen Ray Cheapie with a totally off the fourth wall ending…

  • “The Bishop of Battle” (1983)

See Nightmares (1983) — Part two, “The Bishop of Battle”

Giant Bugs, Brett Piper…and a huge statue of Godzilla?

Martin Gooch’s take on the post-Apocalyptic survival film

The only thing worse than a ravening horde of Black Friday shoppers…

Captain Nemo in Spaaaaaaaace!  An insane guilty pleasure

Routine experiment creates black hole.  And releases…a big monster?…

Ross MacDonald meets Jim Thompson.  A Cyborg P.I. in future Oregon

Willis O’Brien’s giant scorpion movie.  Lots of fun!

A secret prison for…elder gods?  Cool, 80s style action

Something sinister, deadly and unseen, lurks in the sea. Lovecraftian horror

  • The Blackout (2019)

See Avanpost

Incredible. Dazzling. Beautiful. Stylish. Intelligent. Classic. But very, very bleak.

  • Blast Off (1967)

See Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon

Absurd post-Apocalyptic Super 8 nonsense.  Great fun!

Near classic Jackie Chan Sci Fi nonsense!  More fun than a barrel of stuntmen!

The man with the sonar eyes.  Gimmicky Giallo-style serial killer mystery

Gruesome 80s remake.  As good (or better) than the Classic

  • The Block (1985)

See Timeslip: The Block (1985)

Strange, subtle and sinister

Stranded in space, running out of food, and caught in a sinister conspiracy

  • Blood Camp Thatcher (1982)

See Turkey Shoot

Wild and weird almost-a-feature music video.  But not much else

Science can save the world — by making vampires!

Three bad movies in one, courtesy of Al Adamson

One of the best Hammer Horror clones — with a Jimmy Sangster script!

The Polonia Brothers’ Spaghetti Sci Fi film

  • BLOOD TYPE: BLUE (1978)

See Burû Kurisumasu

Alien zombies and broken fourth walls…

A loving tribute to Mario Bava and the best of Spaghetti Sci Fi…

  • BLUE CHRISTMAS (1978)

See Burû Kurisumasu

There are no blue monkeys in this film.  Just really, really big bugs…

  • Blue Steel (1987)

See R.O.T.O.R.

Cult favorite.  No, it isn’t a Zombie movie!

Fast, breezy and silly Warner Brothers Invisibility comedy

That body in the web is memorable.  But it’s mostly about pretty girls

  • The Body Snatcher (1957)

See Ladrón de cadáveres

  • The Body Stealers (1969)

See Invasion of the Body Stealers

Swamp monsters can be such a problem…

  • Booby Trap (1986)

See Wired to Kill (1986)

Goofy screwball comedy.  With Boris Karloff.  And mad scientist interruptions

Bloody John McNaughton Alien-on-the-run film.  But the dog is way too much

Roy gets mad: everyone is out to kill him — over and over again

Lawrence Olivier, Peck and James Mason.  Greatest “B” Movie ever!

Donovan’s Brain meets Edgar Wallace

Evil Alien Brain tries to control the world – using television

An evil alien brain takes over John Agar!

Routine 50s Sci Fi.  But at least it has Leonard Nimoy

It came from the attic!  Fred Olen Ray’s lost first worst film!

17 hours of insane Japanese giant robot TV series edited into…90 minutes???

That’s one way to hold onto your girlfriend…

Slightly disturbed scientist turns kids into killers.  Yawn

Weird Australian film.  Eventually about a videotape which makes you high

Tron meets Freddy Krueger? Close enough

Colorful Giant Robot movie.  All set up, but Tokusatsu-riffic!

Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane barely show up in a B-Movie…

Wild, witty and funny splatter comedy sequel.  Even the Head is back!

Need help curing a werewolf? Wake up a mummy!

“Evil Has Found Its Superhero.”  But the wasp thing is more interesting

Elegant Nouvelle Vague Science Fiction short — but not the one you’re thinking

Ghostbusters-style exterminators vs. mutant bugs, with lots of exposition

Only one thing you can say about an Antonio Sababto Scifi original: Routine

Gross, confusing and disgusting post apocalyptic time travel comedy

Elegant, if arty, Enki Bilal science fiction film

Mad Max ripoff?  Punk Rock Concert Film?  No, something stranger than that

Dark story about government conspiracies, UFOs and people with blue blood

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