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TRAPPED ON A LOST WORLD OF PREHISTORIC MONSTERS
A space-ship is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon, the crew discovers that the planet is inhabited by dinosaurs and supersized bugs. Can they survive long enough in order to get rescued.
HE COULD BE THE BOY NEXT D0OR...
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his blood-lust.
"Play time's over boy"
This is such a cool and silly cult classic from the 80s. Sho Nuff aka The Shogun of Harlem is one of the coolest bad guys in B Movie history. The final showdown is just cool as hell.
Piranha is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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Executive produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is the first installment in a series of low-budget B movies inspired by the film Jaws (1975), which had been a major success for Universal Pictures and director Steven Spielberg. Initially, Universal had considered obtaining an injunction to prevent Piranha being released, particularly as they had released Jaws 2 the same summer, but the lawsuit was dropped after Spielberg himself gave the film a positive comment in advance.
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Charles Champlin, in his review of the film for the Los Angeles Times, called it "a swift, efficient program picture which squeezes the most out of its dollars to squeeze delicious chills from the audience."[14] Jill Forbes of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the film "a quickie from the Corman company that can't decide whether to plump for horror, science fiction or social comedy, and plays safe with something for everyone", and found it "a lot of fun".[15] Screen International's Marjorie Bilbow wrote that the film "works as spirited scream and giggle nonsense because there is always something happening and Joe Dante directs with a slyly tongue-in-cheek awareness of the existence of big brother Jaws".[16]
Piranha has since acquired a cult status. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 72% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Performed with a wink and directed with wry self-awareness, Piranha is an unabashed B-movie with satirical bite."[17]
Steven Spielberg called the film "the best of the Jaws ripoffs".[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_(1978_film)
This community briefly discussed this film a couple years ago.
OOZE MONSTROUS AQUA-BEASTS HUNGERING FOR HUMAN VICTIMS!
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN EXPLOSION OF NINJA ACTION
John Liu, a sound technician for a New York City news station, becomes a vigilante ninja after his pregnant wife is murdered.
WHAT COMES AFTER WORLD WAR III?
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutant cannibals rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two women and a couple of kids in a growing resistance movement.
Invasion of the Bee Girls is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
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The premise of the movie is that a mad scientist (Ford) is using radiation-mutated bee serum to create an army of female beauties who seduce men to death. One by one, the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Bee_Girls
Also see this community's previous discussion of this movie! (e: that has a much higher-quality version of the movie poster...)
HEAVEN HAS CHOSEN HER TO JUDGE OUR SOULS AND SEND SINNERS STRAIGHT TO HELL
Demoness Veronica lscariot manages to escape Hell. When she arrives on Earth, she decides to punish all the Sinners. But the last thing she expected to find was love.
MANKIND IN DANGER OF ANNIHILATION!
The survivors of a plane crash are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
A LIVING, CRAWLING, HELL ON EARTH!
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, veterinarian Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel
IT CRUSHES! KILLS! DESTROYS!
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
Catherine is a violent and disturbed young lady who is shot down by the government in one of her escapades. She wakes up in a training facility and is taught to use weapons, combat, and is put through heavy endurance training. When she is done, she is given the code name "Black Cat". Catherine is now an assassin for the government and is very good at it but she soon finds a boyfriend and is caught between her love for him and her deal with the government.
I cannot recommend this one highly enough. It is, somehow, every single classification of B movie combined in a single coherent whole, each one allowed to shine fully in its turn, without detracting from the others or becoming disjointed. It combines:
It is the ultimate. It is the pinnacle. Watch the fuck out of this movie.
Kalungo, the dark necromancer, has made a deal with the devil and receives a deadly power that will destroy anyone standing in his way. It's up to Queen Dyala, the fearless amazon warrior, to find the magical sword that can be used to defeat him.
"His name is Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You'll Be Gary Indiana, and he loves to hurt people"
"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies and vampires.
IT'S NOT JUST A JOB.. IT'S AN ADVENTURE
Young punk Otto gets fired from his dead-end job and is initiated as a "repo man" after a chance encounter with Bud, an automobile repossessor. An illicit, high-voltage life follows, including an adrenalized search for a mysterious '64 Chevy Malibu loaded with an otherworldly cargo.
WORST POOL PARTY EVER!
What started out as a relaxing summer day by the pool for a group of high maintenance young socialites quickly becomes a nightmare when an unknown killer begins stalking and murdering them one by one.
NERVE-SHATTERING TERROR!
A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her husband.
IT'S PAYBACK TIME!
The life of a Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
