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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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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A Movie About A Kid Making Wishes
It was years ago, and I was born in 2002.
It starts with a fat kid with an infinite chocolate bar supply in his pockets. It turns out his friend, who is the protogonist of the movie, got a wishbook. ...
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What movie had an AI computer called "Shoshone"? [duplicate]
The computer's name wasn't mentioned very often during the movie.
It had a role like "mother" in Alien.
I think the main character was a mid-30s military woman.
This was a cheaply-made b-movie set ...
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70s/80s SciFi film (or series episode?) where a spaceship has only one rescue capsule, so the crew members start killing each other
I'm looking for a movie that I once saw on German TV in the early 00s. At least I think it was a movie - I cannot say for sure that it wasn't an episode of some TV series. What ever the case, I'll try ...
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What was this black-and-white film set in the Arctic or Antarctic where the monster/alien gets fried in the end?
Been trying to track an old black-and-white film I saw a long time ago. It was set in the Arctic or Antarctic and the research base was being stalked by an alien or monster.
The team eventually kill ...
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B-movie about evil praying mantis aliens that attacked Earth
There’s this really terrible movie and I loved it.
There were these evil praying mantis aliens that attacked Earth. And one at the military place bit off a guy’s head. And you see a tube with blood ...
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Old B movie with shapeshifting alien
Trying to find this old movie I saw when I was like 12. I believe it was set in a small town, there was a shapeshifting alien that could take the form of anyone. I think a special ops team comes to ...
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Film, pre 1993, Kung Fu elements and teleportation
Very vague memories of this, I watched it on UK terrestrial channels maybe 1992/1993. I think it was subtitled, originally Chinese or Korean.
All I recall, protagonist was trying and failing at a ...
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80s or 90s movie with evil genie and kids?
I can't recall a movie I saw back in the 90's on TV. I can't recall what happened in all the movie except the last 20 minutes. I recall a girl and a boy, maybe another boy were inside a cave or under ...
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70s or 80s B-movie about aliens in a family's television, fry the house cat and trap the son inside the TV
I saw this B-grade movie in the late 1970s or early 1980s about human looking aliens from another dimension who try to get to our dimension via a family's TV set.
The aliens tried bringing the family ...
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80's sci-fi B movie where an alien, disguised as a human, crash lands in a desert
I was a kid and saw this film on TV in the 80's.
It starts with a crashed ship somewhere in the desert. There is a man who's an alien but I don't remember the plot... I think he just wants to go ...
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Probably an '80s B-movie with a blond boy and an old man, who has to decide whether to stay or go with aliens
I was talking with a Danish guy, who is 24 years old. He said that when he was four or five years old (in the 2000s), he and his brothers saw a movie with a blond kid and an old man, who looked like ...
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Sci-fi movie from the 1970's or 1980's with a robot in a junk pile salvaging a battery
I remember a sci-fi movie when I was a kid (70's-80's) where a robot character fell into a junk pit and scavenged a battery from a similar robot. Does anyone know anything about this movie? I'm sure ...
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Fantasy Movie ID with Cat Lady
I saw this movie in the summer of 1998, on TV. It was definitely low budget, but it has stuck with me ever since and I would love to see it again.
The things I remember for sure:
The main character ...
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Movie (pre-1998) - Alien like creatures on an abandoned airport [duplicate]
I saw this movie when I was a very young kid with my grandpa circa 1995-1997. I don't remember when the movie was actually produced, but I have a feeling it wasn't a very old movie, like pre 1990s, or ...
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'80s kids movie with 3 orbs in a house, and one is evil
I really don’t know if it’s from the '80s, but I think so. It’s about a family that moves in a house and there are three orbs that are trapped there. One is evil and won’t let the other two leave. ...
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Japanese Sci-Fi Where Man's Chest Splits Open And Glows
Caught part of a '60-ish Japanese sci-fi flick on Turner Classic Movies where the hero and his girl are either in a crater or on another planet with a crashed space ship in the background.
Dunno what ...
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Fungus in a cavern/cellar
"B" movie from '50s or '60s: House with a cellar connected to cavern. There's a fungus that turns people into monsters if they touch it. Several people have been "eaten" or "absorbed" by the fungus.
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Looking for a classic invasion movie with coffee
I am looking for a classic invasion movie (I remember it as black and white) in which aliens conquer the Earth by occupying human bodies which then act 'cold' and weird.
It is pretty much like the ...
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Scifi movie where an alien has a baby on a bus
Trying to help a friend find an old sci-fi movie. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as we've searched for hours and come up with nothing.
I need help guys. There is this absolutely ...
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Old scifi/martial arts movie about aliens repopulating after Earth is destroyed
I´m looking for the name of a live-action movie I saw a long time ago, when I was a kid.
It's probably a sci-fi B or TV movie:
The plot develops aboard an alien spaceship where a group of human ...
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1970s(?) science fiction movie - Mad scientist transplants brains from his victims into monstrous creatures
I saw this movie on TV back in the 80's. I believe, however that it was made most likely in the 70's based on it's film style. The movie was in color. The only parts I can really remember was at the ...
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Old 70's Sci-Fi B-movie: Earth is being invaded by telepathic aliens
I believe the movie was made in the 70's. (at least it was during that time I saw it). It was in color. The only part I can remember is that Earth was being invaded (of course) by telepathic (or ...
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Horror movie 60's-70's man feeds guests to cave monster
Does anyone remember this one? A man with a house or maybe hotel near deep natural cavern system (like Carlsbad). A woman shows up (looking for someone that disappeared?), and gets captured (and ...
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60s or 70s made-for TV sci-fi movie with brain washing and Japanese agents
Saw half of this very interesting movie as a kid, always remembered it, but never saw the ending!
A lot of the movie takes place in some government facility in the woods where some kind of agent with ...
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Please help identify B-Movie with Earth turned into penitentiary
This one's a bit odd, sorry in advance. Saw it like a million years ago, when the Latin American Cinemax aired english-language B-flicks
It's a B-Movie done during the 90's (or early 2000's), ...
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