B-Movie Monsters

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-08-02 02:09am

OK, we all enjoy a good B-Movie, right? Right? They entertain us with their low budgetness, they utterly fail to terrify us, they make us have a great time MST3king them... gotta love them. They are the movie embodiment of those old pulp fiction sci-fi magazines. Of course, B-Movies wouldn't amount to much without a good B-Movie Monster. B-Monsters are great.
So, what's your favorite B-Monster?

Personally, my favorite B-Monster is from the classic B-Movie "The Giant Claw". It is (are you ready for this) a GIGANTIC ANTI-MATTER SPACE BUZZARD. It was great, it attacks Earth from it's anti-matter galaxy millions and millions of miles away. It perched on buildings (despite the notable handicap of being anti-matter). It's slow moving head could catch fast moving aircraft. It could project an anti-matter shield when threatened.
Plus, the movie had the classic B-Character, the Jack-Of-All-Trades Hero. Jeff Morrows (he played Exeter in This Island Earth) character of course could flying jets, was a master of physics and electronics, and appearantly, a sniper as well. Excellent.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-08-02 02:14am

Does Godzilla count? Toho not that Matthew Broderick heresy....

If so Godzilla is DA MAN!!!! I could watch his movies all day long ad chucle as he stomps on a reasonable facsimile of Tokyo and battles monsterr's even freakier than he is....Did I mention he was cool.

Godzilla is the Shizit

**Stravo would like to apologize for channeling his inner city child in this post he rpmises it will never happen again**

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-08-02 03:11am

Godzilla for me.

Okay, Gamera too.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-08-02 03:31am

For those of you who are knee-jerking and calling Godzilla and Gamera B-movies,

Have you even watched The first Godzilla movie sans raymond burr and the Gamera trilogy?

Those are not B movies in any sense of the word

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-08-02 03:51am

Shadow WarChief wrote:For those of you who are knee-jerking and calling Godzilla and Gamera B-movies,

Have you even watched The first Godzilla movie sans raymond burr and the Gamera trilogy?

Those are not B movies in any sense of the word

I've seen the first one of the Gamera Trilogy and the orginal Godzilla.

Very good films.

I don't look down on them, in fact I enjoy them more than many "A-grade" films.

Kaiju movies are a lot of fun, which is more than you can say for some films.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-08-02 03:53am

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!!!!

C'mon, those movies (and the cartoons, too!) were the shit, baby.

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-08-02 03:56am

SPOOFE wrote:ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!!!!

C'mon, those movies (and the cartoons, too!) were the shit, baby.

That shit was hilarious!!!

Especially the first movie.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2002-08-02 03:58am

This is more B TV than Movie, but any demon name in 'Charmed', I don't know why it's just that Buffy names sound more convincing...go figure!

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-08-02 04:00am

Hey Shadow Warchief, check out my Imperial Force gets an unpleasant surprise thread, it's right up your alley.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-08-02 04:32am

Ai, Ai, the Great Old ones arive from their slumber.

It's been the source of more then one B movie

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-08-02 04:45am

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Ai, Ai, the Great Old ones arive from their slumber.

It's been the source of more then one B movie

Well, there was a B-Movie based off "The Dunwich Horror" but it was terrible.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-08-02 08:23am

Ok, Evil Dead through Army of Darkness admittably contains several Mythos refrences, but nothing Big shows up.

Unspeakable: Has Julie Strain as a demon searving mr. H.

Reanimator: Was taken from a Lovecraft novel.

there have been more I need to look them up

most have been as bad as the Poe adaptations, since movies often fail to convey any of the viscaral nature of any "Wordy" writer....

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-08-02 01:22pm

"HP Lovecraft's 'From Beyond'" was supposedly based on the short story by HP Lovecraft entitled "From Beyond."

Antediluvian · Post by **Antediluvian** » 2002-08-04 04:19am

Gil Hamilton wrote:
THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Ai, Ai, the Great Old ones arive from their slumber.

It's been the source of more then one B movie
Well, there was a B-Movie based off "The Dunwich Horror" but it was terrible.

Seen that new movie "Dagon", yet?

It was a pretty good Mythos movie.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-08-05 04:47am

Antediluvian wrote:Seen that new movie "Dagon", yet?

It was a pretty good Mythos movie.

I'll keep an eye out for it. Ah, Dagon... it's not easy being green....