Although John Carpenter’s Halloween is a great example of a superbly made “B movie” in terms of budget, any film fan has most likely seen it already.
Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. If these 100 films are painful, they’re also equally fun. They’re not on this list, because the meaning of “best” here is “most entertaining,” and I defy you to be entertained by Manos without its MST3k commentary or a pound of medical-grade marijuana. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are.īut what does “best” mean when we’re talking about films often famous for their shoddy construction? It certainly doesn’t mean “best-made.” It also doesn’t mean “worst-made,” or else films like Manos: The Hands of Fate and The Beast of Yucca Flats would make prominent appearances. To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw their way into existence without the benefit of things like “a budget” or “a script” in some cases. Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day.
