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B Movie Bonanza

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A place for lovers of B movies to come together and talk about them.

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  1. Be most excellent to one another. (Don't be a jerk)
  2. Try not to repost movies that have already been posted. (If it has been over 12 months feel free to repost)
  3. If posting links for people to watch the movies let them be legal ones. (Free is best but not when it's shady, you dig?)
  4. Have fun and enjoy all the awesomeness that B movies can bring you.

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This is my fav sub but what's a B movie? (self.bmoviebonanza)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Graphy to c/bmoviebonanza
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Hey, sorry for the meta post! Please please delete this post if this doesn’t fit here.

I love this sub but there’s been a few movies where I love the cover and the movie isn’t very popular (these day?) but I don’t post it because it’s a once popular film.

Some examples are like

They Live (carpenter)

Mars Attacks

In the Mouth of Madness

I love all of those but fear they’re too well known or had too big of a budget to be B movies.

Like I love the activity on this sub but don’t want to accidentally co opt it into just being movies I love haha

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mars Attacks was a big enough Hollywood production, I don't think it's a B-movie at all. It's a cult classic, and it intentionally uses B-movie aesthetics for comedic purposes, but it's not a B-movie.

And John Carpenter is such a skilled auteur that even his low-budget classics are considered top-shelf movie magic. Not B-movies at all. They're A-movies that shaped the horror genre.