Attack of the B Movies! 50 of the Best Schlocky Titles of All Time

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 3-5-15 | Patrick Shanley

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MASTERS OF SCHLOCK The sci-fi and horror movies of the 1950s sparked a trend that continues even today of downright silly titles, ranging from 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!' to 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?' to 'Big Ass Spider!' (Yes, there also is a love affair with unnecessary punctuation.) Here, THR breaks down 50 of the best (and funniest) titles of all time.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Good movie! Dumb silly and funny! Especially when one of the idiots gets his finger caught in a water faucet, can’t get it off, then becomes a rock star! All the teens start sticking faucets on their fingers to emulate their “teen idol”

[Cecily]

[Fester Chugabrew]

I seek these out on Netflix, and the kids go elsewhere.

[RandallFlagg]

Who here remembers Bob Wilkin’s Horror Show?

[dhs12345]

Giant bone cells that sound like someone sucking a malt through a straw when they get you?

[Dick Bachert]

“Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again – and CHANGE. DON’T FORGET CHANGE!”

Obama is now and always has been a clueless Chauncy Gardener!!

[DukeBillie]

In the 70s my husband had a rockabilly band that achieved minor fame. He still occasionally gets royalty checks (that amount to pennies). In the early 2000s he started getting a slightly larger check. We couldn't figure out why. The statements just said Assault of the Killer . . .

After some research we found out that one of his songs was used in the B grade movie Assault of the Killer Bimbos. We ordered a copy from Amazon. When the movie arrived, we didn't want to watch the whole thing to find out where his song was. So we looked at the chapter titles and saw one titled "Strip scene" So my husband said let's start there. (It wasn't really a strip scene. The girls are changing clothes in their car)

When the scene starts - there was his song! He said if you had to have a song in a B movie, that was the best place for it.

The movie was the inspiration for Thelma and Louise.

Killer Bimbos - his song is the first 1.10 minutes

[Forward the Light Brigade]

some guy was trying to set up a B-Movie Channel—a great idea—have all the old Cowboy films, serials, horror flicks, and bad WW II movies. Toss in a few beach blanet turkeys and that would do it. Lets do it.

OR A patriots channel with movies about Washington, the Alamo, and the cavalry, Movies that show America as a great place and not one filled with killers and drugies.

[latina4dubya]

Who here remembers Bob Wilkin’s Horror Show?

it the Bay Area it was called Creature Features with Bob Wilkins as the host...

i remember a movie called, "Island of Terror," about these long-necked turtle looking creatures that sucked the bones out of humans... something like that...

[locountry1dr]

Loved MST 3000!

[DugwayDuke]

“Saw the attack of the 50 foot woman poster. In the early 70s I served with one of script writers of that and several other B movie classics.”

We were watching and making fun of a movie where there was this mine with blobs falling off the ceiling. After the movie one of the guys announced that movie had been written by his uncle who passed his time writing movie scripts while serving a prison sentence for embezzlement.

I was glad to see “I was a teenager from outer space” made the list. Really a great movie to watch in college while drinking. It ran several times during the year. We would turn off the sound and make up our own dialogue.

[muir_redwoods]

I think an early role for Clint Eastwood was in one of these or something similar

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My copy of this fell apart. It is the best for the obscure to the well known old bad/good movies Why it is out of print I do not know and it is darn expensive for used copies:

The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotronic-Encyclopedia-Film-MICHAEL-WELDON/dp/0345303814

[whinecountry]

“Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia”
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As a Peckinpah and Oates fan, I rented it once. It seemed as though everyone involved was drunk. Perhaps that is the best way to watch it. :)

[Rocko]

The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film is worth getting as well, and much cheaper. The author is now a record store owner in Georgia and sends out moonbat messages via Facebook.

[GreenHornet]

The 1958 cult classic “The Blob” (Steve McQueen’s first starring role) was filmed in the town of Phoenixville, PA in suburban Philadelphia. Every July, the town of Phoenixville celebrates a 3 day street fair called “Blob Fest.” There are continuous showings of “The Blob” and other sci-fi movies from that era at the Colonial Theater (which figured prominently in the movie - near the end of the film, the Blob eats the Colonial theater.) Other activities include a tin foil hat contest, a fire extinguisher parade, and a monster contest.

[windcliff]

My copy fell apart as well.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1971, some students at Occidental College made a movie called I was a Teenage Earl Warren With a title like that, it must have been just about the scariest horror movie of all time.

[Fiji Hill]

The Blob--The Five Blobs (1958)

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I have that one somewhere. I just didn’t like it as well as the first one