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 in a made for TV movie from the 90s
Film or TV movie involving an elderly lady who raises her cane into the air and transforms into an alien
I'm also looking for this movie.
I also remember an elderly woman waving a cane in the air and ...
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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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Where else did I see a skeleton swordfight?
I was recently watching Jason and the Argonauts from 1963 and I happily looked forward to the skeleton swordfight
However it was very different from my memories (from ...
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Memorably stupid line from very old movie: "Any quantum mechanic could fix that."
Long ago (perhaps 1960s) I saw one of the worst science fiction movies ever made. I remember nothing about it except it was awful, and contained the following line (which I may not remember 100% ...
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Movie ID: Spaceship launches fighter ships from "revolver"
This is a long shot.
I would like to find an old black and white science fiction movie that I saw on TV.
The one scene that has stuck in my mind was of a spaceship launching its fighter ships in ...
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Building blocks of the president's DNA
I'm looking for an old movie I saw a while ago (~2010) that felt as if it was an 80s style knock off comedy sci-fi. I don't remember much about it, or even in what context I saw it (I could have only ...
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50's black & white movie with a white haired woman entering a flying saucer in a snow-covered landscape
Which '50s, vintage, black & white sci-fi movie has a white-haired woman entering a flying saucer, set in a snow covered landscape? This is all I remember of the movie, but I’m pretty sure that ...
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A '60s(?) era sci-fi episode/film about a jungle with robotic duplicates?
I know this is pretty vague, but I have been looking for this movie/tv show episode for my entire life. I first saw this when I was about 3 or 4. It gave me absolute nightmares and although I have ...
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B-flick movie where a man is searching for parts to repair his robo-wife [duplicate]
I vaguely recall a made-for-tv? movie (25ish years ago) and I remember some plot points but I can't seem to track it down by googling. I may be mis-remembering some of the details.
A corporate suit ...
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Movie involving body-snatching (might be an early 1950s variant of The Thing)
Some details I recall from this movie, which reminds me a little of the Carpenter film The Thing but was made much earlier.
It takes place largely on a space ship, and was made in the 1950s or 60s, ...
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What sci-fi references are made in "This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy"
Which classic sci-fi films and TV shows are referenced in the New Zealand indie sci-fi comedy title:
This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (2016)?
The ones I have so far, mentioned ...
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Sci-fi movie that remember watching as a child involving a beetle-like creature escaping a space prison to Earth, and then going back
I believe the main plot of the movie involved an alien escaping from some space prison and coming to Earth. The two protagonists was a man and a woman and I believe one of them was a cop. In one of ...
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Older dubbed film with partially ape-like evil henchmen
I saw a part of this while channel-surfing around a few months ago on Comet TV, and it's been bugging me ever since that I couldn't place it. Today, I snap and present the challenge to SFSE. Here is ...
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80s SF/F movie with exotic cult, soldier of fortune
So, I was flipping through broadcast last night, and I caught just a couple of brief glimpses of a B action flick on a lesser channel.
I would guess it to be 80s/90s in time period. The protagonist ...
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Looking for B&W sci-fi movie where women are turned into skeletons
I saw a Black and White "B" movie on television in the mid 1970's. The movie was definitely from the 40's or 50's. One scene that sticks in my mind:
Unconscious women are moving on a ...
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Fantasy Kung Fu/Karate movie with combating Dojos
Trying to find a fantasy karate/kung-fu movie I only saw a scene from and it had a older Asian lady with white braided hair that went to the ground and her and I think two or three other older people ...
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Movie with world globe size red sphere
I know there’s not much detail but a friend of mine is looking for a very specific movie. There is a late 80s or early 90s B or below Sci Fi movie out there that inspired a big red Chinese buoy gift ...
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