This actually got started over in Bradbury's Jar, but I thought it might be fun to separate it out. My favorite old B rate sci fi movie is Day of the Triffids. My older brother had me watch it to try to scare me (he's 10 years older), but I liked it too much. People popping out of existence is scary, but thought provoking.

That's not an easy one for me to answer. When I was a kid, there was an independent tv station that aired loads of B movies on the weekends. Most of those were low-budget foreign films. They were gloriously groan worthy, but I was always a couple of minutes late to turn on the tv, so I rarely caught the title. One example that comes to mind is a turkey that was made in Turkey. An evil lizard emperor wanted to conquer the Earth. Earth had a security force that was determined to stop the lizard emperor. (The captain of the force was a guy with a bad plastic mustache glued to his face and had so much product in his hair that it looked like a shiny, plastic helmet. He spent a lot of his time running around while shouting, "We must stop that oooooof-oh !" About halfway through the film I realized he meant "UFO".) For comic relief, there was a boy robot and a girl robot wandering around, quoting bits of Shakespeare's love sonnets to each other. (The girl, of course, was the one with the foot-long eyelashes welded to her face.) It's hard to say how many I saw growing up, but there were so many that would have become classics if they'd been seen by a wider audience. (Anybody in the mood for Demon Dog: the Hound from Hell ?)

The Day of the Triffids was a great book, btw...not sure of the movie... (sheesh, I just might have an old penguin copy around somewhere if you want it?) I remember watching one from the seventies called, "The Elevator," I think. Kinda sketchy on the title...anyway, the byline on the VHS box was "Take the stairs, take the stairs...for godsakes take the stairs!"

I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)

Originally posted by k2p2 The Day of the Triffids was a great book

I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids...

I read Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalis but never saw the movies. I loved Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which I used in my Bradbury's Jar ficlet. I'm also a big fan of Gremlins and Gremlins 2 (I actually prefer the campy sequel) and I used to love the Chucky movies (which got sillier as they went along). For more modern 'B' movies, Galaxy Quest is in a class of its own. Should I admit to enjoying the campiness of Star Trek V as well?

There not Sci Fi, but definitely B movies: I love the Irwin Allen Disaster Movies -- Fire and Towering Inferno; though I don't think I've ever seen Earthquake.

EW--I remember "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell"! I loved that flick as a kid. I also want to mention "Tourist Trap", it used to be shown on Sunday late afternoon TV when I was a kid. (They probably paired it with "Devil Dog" as a double feature! LOL). It was creepy! What about those Vincent Price movies? "Masque of the Red Death" was my favorite. Don't know if they qualify as "B-movies" per se, but I always loved those old B&W films "The Invisible Man", "The Mummy", etc. PBS would run them late on Saturday nights. Or what about "Them"--the giant ants! (I mean the original one from 50's).

Originally posted by k2p2 The Day of the Triffids was a great book, btw...not sure of the movie... (sheesh, I just might have an old penguin copy around somewhere if you want it?) I remember watching one from the seventies called, "The Elevator," I think. Kinda sketchy on the title...anyway, the byline on the VHS box was "Take the stairs, take the stairs...for godsakes take the stairs!"

That was actually some of the fun with them. The bylines were hysterical.

Originally posted by ElectricWhite That's not an easy one for me to answer. When I was a kid, there was an independent tv station that aired loads of B movies on the weekends. Most of those were low-budget foreign films. They were gloriously groan worthy, but I was always a couple of minutes late to turn on the tv, so I rarely caught the title. One example that comes to mind is a turkey that was made in Turkey. An evil lizard emperor wanted to conquer the Earth. Earth had a security force that was determined to stop the lizard emperor. (The captain of the force was a guy with a bad plastic mustache glued to his face and had so much product in his hair that it looked like a shiny, plastic helmet. He spent a lot of his time running around while shouting, "We must stop that oooooof-oh !" About halfway through the film I realized he meant "UFO".) For comic relief, there was a boy robot and a girl robot wandering around, quoting bits of Shakespeare's love sonnets to each other. (The girl, of course, was the one with the foot-long eyelashes welded to her face.) It's hard to say how many I saw growing up, but there were so many that would have become classics if they'd been seen by a wider audience. (Anybody in the mood for Demon Dog: the Hound from Hell ?)

You're not saying the boy and girl robot were....EEEWWWWW!

Originally posted by lborgia88 I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)

Originally posted by k2p2 The Day of the Triffids was a great book

I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids...

I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29.

Earth Vs The Flying Saucers Twenty Million Miles to Earth The Monolith Monsters

Originally posted by Transmute Jun I read Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalis but never saw the movies. I loved Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which I used in my Bradbury's Jar ficlet. I'm also a big fan of Gremlins and Gremlins 2 (I actually prefer the campy sequel) and I used to love the Chucky movies (which got sillier as they went along). For more modern 'B' movies, Galaxy Quest is in a class of its own. Should I admit to enjoying the campiness of Star Trek V as well?

I've never heard of The Chrysalis. Will have to look that up. I love Galaxy Quest. Especially when the extra guy is convinced he's going to die because he's not a main character, just an extra.

Originally posted by amethyst There not Sci Fi, but definitely B movies: I love the Irwin Allen Disaster Movies -- Fire and Towering Inferno; though I don't think I've ever seen Earthquake.

You didn't miss anything not seeing Earthquake, Ame. I think the Poseidon Adventure was his best.

Originally posted by Redbird EW--I remember "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell"! I loved that flick as a kid. I also want to mention "Tourist Trap", it used to be shown on Sunday late afternoon TV when I was a kid. (They probably paired it with "Devil Dog" as a double feature! LOL). It was creepy! What about those Vincent Price movies? "Masque of the Red Death" was my favorite. Don't know if they qualify as "B-movies" per se, but I always loved those old B&W films "The Invisible Man", "The Mummy", etc. PBS would run them late on Saturday nights. Or what about "Them"--the giant ants! (I mean the original one from 50's).

Redbird, B rate movies aren't the classics. They're more mismatched, had cheap budgets, cheaper looking monsters, horrible special effects, even worse scripts. The kind that are so bad you either cringe or laugh at them.

Originally posted by TheSolarSailor Earth Vs The Flying Saucers Twenty Million Miles to Earth The Monolith Monsters

Hi Sailor! Haven't seen you in a while. I remember Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, but not the other two.

Hi Sailor! Haven't seen you in a while. I remember Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, but not the other two.

Hello. I haven't been around much, but I do peek in every once in a while. Both Earth vs The Flying Saucers and Twenty Million Miles to Earth are Ray Harryhausen films. The latter features astronauts returning from Venus and unwittingly releasing a Venusian creature that starts off very small, but grows to a giant monster who is ultimately defeated in the Coliseum in Rome. It's worth checking out. The Monolith Monsters is a film about a weird meteorite that falls in the desert. The fragments cause people to become petrified and die, and when water touches the rocks, the grow into huge monolithic crystals that tower in height, topple over and crash, then grow again. Rinse and repeat as the deadly rocks threatened the entire world! A bit flatly acted, but a pretty cool concept!

Originally posted by Becky Rock

Originally posted by lborgia88 I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)

Originally posted by k2p2 The Day of the Triffids was a great book

I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids...

I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29.

SPOILERS AHEAD. As I remember the Logan's Run (the book), the dying age was 21. It was a sustained dig at the youth culture's disdain for their parents. Pretty much everything was falling apart because so many people were 'doing their own thing' instead of learning and following up on the work of their predecessors. Logan reaches the age of 21, and for some reason, goes on the run for Sanctuary. (Unlike the movie, in which he's an agent trying to find it so it can be destroyed.) He and Jessica take a bit of a tour of this freaky US, and meet the various weirdos who live there. Francis turns out to be the legendary Ballard, a man with a 'double life', and Sanctuary is a space station in orbit. Life there isn't perfect, but the people there will return when the current culture implodes. (I read the book a very long time ago, so I have no doubt I'm leaving out a lot.) At age 21, citizens go somewhere (forgot where) to die (Carousel was purely movie). Anyone who runs gets chased by the Sandmen and killed. So, no domed, post-nuclear city, no Carousel, no violent destruction of the city at the end of the story. Box the crazy robot is in both.

Originally posted by TheSolarSailor

Hi Sailor! Haven't seen you in a while. I remember Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, but not the other two.

Hello. I haven't been around much, but I do peek in every once in a while. Both Earth vs The Flying Saucers and Twenty Million Miles to Earth are Ray Harryhausen films. The latter features astronauts returning from Venus and unwittingly releasing a Venusian creature that starts off very small, but grows to a giant monster who is ultimately defeated in the Coliseum in Rome. It's worth checking out. The Monolith Monsters is a film about a weird meteorite that falls in the desert. The fragments cause people to become petrified and die, and when water touches the rocks, the grow into huge monolithic crystals that tower in height, topple over and crash, then grow again. Rinse and repeat as the deadly rocks threatened the entire world! A bit flatly acted, but a pretty cool concept!

Yes, I did see Twenty Million Miles to Earth.

Originally posted by UnpublishedWriter

Originally posted by Becky Rock

Originally posted by lborgia88 I think for me, it's Logan's Run. It was on TV a few times when I was a kid, and my older brother had read the book and explained to me what was going on -future dystopia, everyone living in a city under a dome, and no one is allowed to live long enough to get old (you turn yourself in when you reach the age limit, in the belief that you get "renewed," except no one really ever does.)

Originally posted by k2p2 The Day of the Triffids was a great book

I agree with that -I love John Wyndham. I actually have never seen the Triffids movie though. Wondering now if there was ever a film version of The Chrysalids...

I liked the book Logan's Run better than the movie. I believe the movie changed the age limit from 19 to 29.

SPOILERS AHEAD. As I remember the Logan's Run (the book), the dying age was 21. It was a sustained dig at the youth culture's disdain for their parents. Pretty much everything was falling apart because so many people were 'doing their own thing' instead of learning and following up on the work of their predecessors. Logan reaches the age of 21, and for some reason, goes on the run for Sanctuary. (Unlike the movie, in which he's an agent trying to find it so it can be destroyed.) He and Jessica take a bit of a tour of this freaky US, and meet the various weirdos who live there. Francis turns out to be the legendary Ballard, a man with a 'double life', and Sanctuary is a space station in orbit. Life there isn't perfect, but the people there will return when the current culture implodes. (I read the book a very long time ago, so I have no doubt I'm leaving out a lot.) At age 21, citizens go somewhere (forgot where) to die (Carousel was purely movie). Anyone who runs gets chased by the Sandmen and killed. So, no domed, post-nuclear city, no Carousel, no violent destruction of the city at the end of the story. Box the crazy robot is in both.

There was a second book. I can't remember the name. Logan and Jessica had a son, maybe 6 at the time of the book. All I remember is they were having a rough time adjusting to the open world.