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Posted by Becky Rock on 22-09-2013 at 23:46:
What si your favorite old B rate sci fi movie?
This actually got started over in Bradbury's Jar, but I thought it might be fun to separate it out.
My favorite old B rate sci fi movie is Day of the Triffids. My older brother had me watch it to try to scare me (he's 10 years older), but I liked it too much. People popping out of existence is scary, but thought provoking.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 23-09-2013 at 00:18:
That's not an easy one for me to answer. When I was a kid, there was an independent tv station that aired loads of B movies on the weekends. Most of those were low-budget foreign films. They were gloriously groan worthy, but I was always a couple of minutes late to turn on the tv, so I rarely caught the title.
One example that comes to mind is a turkey that was made in Turkey. An evil lizard emperor wanted to conquer the Earth. Earth had a security force that was determined to stop the lizard emperor. (The captain of the force was a guy with a bad plastic mustache glued to his face and had so much product in his hair that it looked like a shiny, plastic helmet. He spent a lot of his time running around while shouting, "We must stop that oooooof-oh !" About halfway through the film I realized he meant "UFO".) For comic relief, there was a boy robot and a girl robot wandering around, quoting bits of Shakespeare's love sonnets to each other. (The girl, of course, was the one with the foot-long eyelashes welded to her face.)
It's hard to say how many I saw growing up, but there were so many that would have become classics if they'd been seen by a wider audience. (Anybody in the mood for Demon Dog: the Hound from Hell ?)
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Posted by k2p2 on 23-09-2013 at 00:28:
The Day of the Triffids was a great book, btw...not sure of the movie... (sheesh, I just might have an old penguin copy around somewhere if you want it?)
I remember watching one from the seventies called, "The Elevator," I think. Kinda sketchy on the title...anyway, the byline on the VHS box was "Take the stairs, take the stairs...for godsakes take the stairs!"
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Posted by lborgia88 on 23-09-2013 at 00:50:
I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)
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I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids...
Posted by Transmute Jun on 23-09-2013 at 02:31:
I read Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalis but never saw the movies.
I loved Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which I used in my Bradbury's Jar ficlet. I'm also a big fan of Gremlins and Gremlins 2 (I actually prefer the campy sequel) and I used to love the Chucky movies (which got sillier as they went along).
For more modern 'B' movies, Galaxy Quest is in a class of its own. 
Should I admit to enjoying the campiness of Star Trek V as well?
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Posted by amethyst on 23-09-2013 at 03:31:
There not Sci Fi, but definitely B movies: I love the Irwin Allen Disaster Movies -- Fire and Towering Inferno; though I don't think I've ever seen Earthquake.
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Posted by Redbird on 23-09-2013 at 11:26:
EW--I remember "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell"! I loved that flick as a kid.
I also want to mention "Tourist Trap", it used to be shown on Sunday late afternoon TV when I was a kid. (They probably paired it with "Devil Dog" as a double feature! LOL). It was creepy!
What about those Vincent Price movies? "Masque of the Red Death" was my favorite.
Don't know if they qualify as "B-movies" per se, but I always loved those old B&W films "The Invisible Man", "The Mummy", etc. PBS would run them late on Saturday nights. Or what about "Them"--the giant ants! (I mean the original one from 50's). 
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 01:50:
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That was actually some of the fun with them. The bylines were hysterical.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 01:52:
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You're not saying the boy and girl robot were....EEEWWWWW!
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 01:53:
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I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29.
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Posted by TheSolarSailor on 24-09-2013 at 08:29:
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers
Twenty Million Miles to Earth
The Monolith Monsters
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 21:18:
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I've never heard of The Chrysalis. Will have to look that up. I love Galaxy Quest. Especially when the extra guy is convinced he's going to die because he's not a main character, just an extra.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 21:22:
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You didn't miss anything not seeing Earthquake, Ame. I think the Poseidon Adventure was his best.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 21:25:
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Redbird, B rate movies aren't the classics. They're more mismatched, had cheap budgets, cheaper looking monsters, horrible special effects, even worse scripts. The kind that are so bad you either cringe or laugh at them.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 24-09-2013 at 21:26:
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Hi Sailor! Haven't seen you in a while.
I remember Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, but not the other two.
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Posted by TheSolarSailor on 25-09-2013 at 19:08:
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Hello. I haven't been around much, but I do peek in every once in a while. Both Earth vs The Flying Saucers and Twenty Million Miles to Earth are Ray Harryhausen films. The latter features astronauts returning from Venus and unwittingly releasing a Venusian creature that starts off very small, but grows to a giant monster who is ultimately defeated in the Coliseum in Rome. It's worth checking out.
The Monolith Monsters is a film about a weird meteorite that falls in the desert. The fragments cause people to become petrified and die, and when water touches the rocks, the grow into huge monolithic crystals that tower in height, topple over and crash, then grow again. Rinse and repeat as the deadly rocks threatened the entire world! A bit flatly acted, but a pretty cool concept!
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 25-09-2013 at 23:07:
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SPOILERS AHEAD. As I remember the Logan's Run (the book), the dying age was 21. It was a sustained dig at the youth culture's disdain for their parents. Pretty much everything was falling apart because so many people were 'doing their own thing' instead of learning and following up on the work of their predecessors. Logan reaches the age of 21, and for some reason, goes on the run for Sanctuary. (Unlike the movie, in which he's an agent trying to find it so it can be destroyed.) He and Jessica take a bit of a tour of this freaky US, and meet the various weirdos who live there. Francis turns out to be the legendary Ballard, a man with a 'double life', and Sanctuary is a space station in orbit. Life there isn't perfect, but the people there will return when the current culture implodes. (I read the book a very long time ago, so I have no doubt I'm leaving out a lot.)
At age 21, citizens go somewhere (forgot where) to die (Carousel was purely movie). Anyone who runs gets chased by the Sandmen and killed.
So, no domed, post-nuclear city, no Carousel, no violent destruction of the city at the end of the story. Box the crazy robot is in both.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 28-09-2013 at 20:15:
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Yes, I did see Twenty Million Miles to Earth.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 28-09-2013 at 20:18:
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There was a second book. I can't remember the name. Logan and Jessica had a son, maybe 6 at the time of the book. All I remember is they were having a rough time adjusting to the open world.
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