Questions tagged [b-movies]
For questions about "B movies", a genre of film usually distinguished by being cheap, low quality or poorly received. Use in conjunction with [story-identification] when trying to identify a B movie when [movie] isn't applicable.
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Movie I saw in the 80s where a substance oozed off of movie stairs leaving a wet cat behind
I remember this movie as a summer movie in the early 80s. My movie experts have watched even the worst blob movies to rule that out.
All I remember is where a substance is oozing back out of a movie ...
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Movie where the only survivor from a space colony or expedition is found and recovered by a ship. He turns out to be infected and turns evil
I am thinking that I have seen this in the 1990's or 80's but am not sure. I did not see the complete movie and don't know how it ended or began.
When I started watching it, they recovered a guy that ...
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Elderly woman waving her cane in the air to transform into an alien made for tv movie from the 90s
I'm also looking for this movie. I also remember an elderly woman waving a cane in the air and morphing into an alien to fight other aliens. I also remember her using either the microwave or the ...
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Science Fiction movie which used Eagles from “Space: 1999?”
I seem to remember seeing a science fiction movie in the late 1970s or 1980s which seemed very cheap.
As I remember, the eagle spaceships from Space: 1999 were used as alien spaceships instead of the ...
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Searching title of an old sci-fi B movie with carnivorous aquatic plants
I'm looking for the title of an old sci-fi B movie (B/W). It is about a tourist cruise, perhaps an ocean liner, that gets lost in a kind of fog. When the fog clears, they realize that the ship is ...
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B-Movie with concept similar to the Secret Invasion [duplicate]
I think it was 20 years ago when I watched a B-movie that had a partially similar plot. I cannot remember all of the details, but the leading role was a man that found to identify aliens among people ...
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Movie about killer army ants, involving a partially devoured cow in a barn and a scene with a man driving around dropping dynamite into ant hills
In the 90's, I watched part of a color movie about a swarm of killer army ants. These were normal sized ants, it's just there were so many and they were so voracious that they were dangerous. I ...
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Black & white sci-fi film where an alien accidentally ripped off the arm of his human host
Many years ago, I saw a black & white sci-fi film probably from the '50s or '60s.
The aliens landed in the U.S. West (of course!) and took over human bodies. Close to the film's beginning, one of ...
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B-Movie identification: tunnel under the Pacific ocean
This movie has been running around in my head long enough, using up valuable brain cycles.
It would have been shown as a Saturday morning movie in the UK, circa '80s.
Villians were Chinese and were ...
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SF movie where bad guy has body parts of vanquished enemies transplanted onto himself [duplicate]
I'm trying to track down a science-fiction movie that I only remember fragments of.
The good guys consist of humans and various aliens, and the alien bad-guy leader has body parts of vanquished ...
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looking for a movie title – Chinese martial arts (pre-2000)
l-o-n-g time searching for an old Chinese movie (english dubbed) about a man who accidentally entered a higher realm where flamboyantly-dressed 'gods' (much like Stargate Goa'ulds) were playing a ...
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'70s movie about a night flight during the Night of the Witches
This was a horror/supernatural American movie from the '70, or not later than early '80s, that I saw as a child. Most likely, it was a TV movie.
During a nocturnal commercial flight, strange and scary ...
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Sci-fi movie where some humans (possibly on another planet) stumble upon a huge lost ship with technology better than anything they had
I've spent about 3 hours googling every combination of what I can think of and I'm hoping it will jog someone's memory here.
As a child I remember watching a movie on TV (it was older at the time) ...
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1970s TV movie of a haunted house that has a dead girl inside a chimney
When I was a kid I remember watching a TV movie. It was an old house and a group of kids were playing around. It was something like a backyard and this big old house. Some of the kids went inside to ...
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What was this movie I saw billed as the "Worst SF movie ever"?
Some years ago I watched very old science fiction movie on French television that was advertised as "The worst SF movie ever made".
It involved aliens who somehow woke up the dead, so the ...
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