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Hi everyone I was just thinking about some of my favorite low budget movies.  Here is a list of 5 of my favorites, let me know some of yours.
 
1 Night Of The Living Dead... The original is a classic.
2  Capricorn One... This is a 70's must see that stars O.J. Simpson.  
3. Dog Soldiers.... Great movie by the director of The Descent.
4  Bubba Ho-tep.... It's got Elvis and monsters, wow!
5. Session 9... One of the most unsettling movies I have seen.
 

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    • 4/16/2008 11:04 PM Rodger wrote:
      Hey, Jim!
      Grade Z movies that gave me the night terrors as a kid? Let see....
      Gargoyles with Bernie Casey, weird stuff.
      TV movies count, right?
      Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black. Remember the African doll that came to life and attacked her in the kitchen!
      Can't remember the name of this one, but it starred Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. At the end Darby gets pulled down into the bowels of their gothic house by evil little gnomes or something. No happy ending, gave me the willies forever!
      The Dr.Suess written movie with Hans Conried as Dr.T? He chains all of these kids to this long Suessian piano keyboard. Most memorable line...Be careful its....ATOMIC!
      That's about all I can come up with now.
      Hey how many people remember THE MONSTER TIMES? Back in the early to mid 70's it was the only science fiction/horror magazine around. Actually it wasn't a magazine, it was printed like a newspaper. It was the only thing that covered Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, SF and comics at the time.

      Rock on!
      Rodger
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    • 4/24/2008 8:54 PM Will Emero II wrote:
      Alright, I'm game, and certainly hope to see more.

      In no particular order:

      1. The Black Terminator - Originally released in 1976 or 1977 and currently can be found for $1 at Supa Dolla Castle as an EastWest DVD release. It features Jim Kelly as a crimebusting secret agent in the employ of DRAGON and is James Bond meets Bruce Lee. Really is a cool, fun little movie that is better than you think. Seek it out.

      2 - Wrestlemaniac - Exploitation filmmaking at it's best. 3 fun lovin' guys and 3 free lovin' girls head south of the border to shoot gonzo porn in Tijuana. The crew of young adults wanders into an abandoned town and is confronted by the Wrestlemaniac - an urban legend super lucha madman who kills by ripping his victims faces off. $10 at the local Walmart. Worth the rental.

      3 - Beer League - Starring Artie Lange - comedian, actor, Stern show sidekick, fat drunken junkie - makes his lead debut in a low budget Baseball movie about the loser who makes good and gets the girl. Fun guy movie built around beer league softball with some of the best dialogue this side of a Kevin Smith film. Can be found in the $5 bin at Walmart.

      4 - The Notorious Bettie Page - Biopic of the cult sex symbol directed by the auteur behind American Psycho. Gretchen Moll is nowhere near curvy enough, but captures Page's spirit perfectly. Bonus: the DVD has an original Bettie Page striptease film as an extra. Oh, and just to be honest: real women have curves. Eat something.

      5 - Star Wars: A New Hope. Before Lucas made his bones for life, he made this film on a shoestring. The original is best - not the re-shot, re-edited, slathered in special effects and CGI, I mean the original. The one you saw knee high to a grasshopper after begging your folks for weeks. Yeah, that one.
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    • 4/25/2008 11:05 AM Buck wrote:
      I'm going to focus on low budget horror, since they seem to go well hand-in-hand:

      1. "Ginger Snaps" ("Dog Soldiers" made me think of it. Canadian werewolf sister angst- what's not to like?)
      2. "The Other" 1972. Good twin, evil twin. Farm shenanigans.
      3. "Trilogy of Terror." 1975, TV. The evil Tiki guy still gives me the willies.
      4. I don't know the name. A young couple buys an old house with a bricked-up fireplace. There are evil spirits trapped inside. The guy opens it up and unleashes them.
      5. "Panic in the Year Zero!" The exclamation point says it all. I'm not sure how low budget, but a very bizarre post-apocalyptic vision from 1962. Co-starring Frankie Avalon.
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