Does anybody watch those SciFi channel B movies?

[NewJeffCT]

I ended up watching "Pterodactyl" over the weekend because sometimes I just can't resist a good B (or lower) movie.

The two main characters were Dr. Lovecraft & his assisant, Ms. Heinlein.

They also had a character named Zelazny, and a few other famous Sci Fi authors. The big star was Coolio, playing a special forces soldier named Bergin. Don't know a sci-fi author named Bergin, but I don't know them all.

Do they always do cheesy things like that?

[Beetwasher]

1. Occasionally, They're Usually Pretty Bad Though

Some of them are downright unwatchable.

It's funny, it's like there's two completely separate production staffs that do their original programming...Some of their stuff is so bad it hurts, but then you've got BSG. :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

2. well, I don't expect good quality from those movies

Just some mindless fun after a long week... but, the names like Lovecraft, Heinlein & Zelazny stood out to me.

[Emperor_Norton_II]

3. That's how it works

SciFi as a network makes programming decisions and buys the programming from the production companies. So they sign the checks and purchase 20-25 episodes of BSG from Ron Moore's company, or 20 episodes of SG-1 from Brad Wright's company, and then they turn around and purchase features from outfits like UFO Films, who're the guys who make the grade-z monster movies.

Revel in the glories of TV production.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I don't know if it's grade z horror

Back when I knew more about B movies & C movies & lower, I would judge the level of a movie by the attractiveness of the Girl (or Girls) Marked for Death. The more attractive the actress, the closer it was to an A or B movie.. and, some of these B movie actresses in the Sci-Fi movies are quite attractive and certainly above Grade Z horror (i.e., the girl who played Angie in "Pterodactyl" or the half-vampire woman from "Blood Suckers" )

[Salviati]

4. Not usually, but I'm so looking forward to "Man with the Screaming Brain"

Written, directed, and starring Bruce Campbell! It's gonna RAWK!

[NewJeffCT]

6. Alien Apocalypse was a bit of a disappointment

the movie where Campbell plays an astronaut returning from a deep space/deep sleep mission to find Earth has been taken over by giant termite like creatures.

Not nearly as many Campbell moments as usual.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Most are Too Boring

When I think to myself - ok even if this is crap, at least it might be campy or fun. Wrong - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[IndianaGreen]

8. They are better than watching another Aruba report

The bulk of scifi movies were cheesy! Before 2001: Space Odyssey, it was rare to find a good scifi movie. Films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Forbidden Planet were few and far in between.

[NewJeffCT]

9. you got that right

actually, just about anything is better than Natalie Holloway 24/7. I might even suffer through a Lifetime movie to avoid that.

[rickrok66]

10. Sci Fi Monster Movies

Yeah...My friends and I at work were talking about the latest string of chessy Sci Fi Channel movies.

You know the familiar plot: Group of people go on a trip, Group encounters big monster, Big monster kilss people in group, and group fights back and escapes. Add at least one hottie who has to go swimming where the monster lives. Also add one has been actor (Todd Bridges) or rapper (Coolio) for "credibility".

Everybody I know is like why did Coolio lower himself to be in Pteradactyl.

The Sci Fi Channel made The Soup last week. Joel McHale remarked, "those effects weren't retarded, they were special."

There are so many Sci Fi writers out there who would be willing to sell their good stories cheap to make a B+ movie on the Sci Fi channel. I would even like if they interviewed some smart guys for an hour to discuss time travel, or alien life, or the future of warfare, etc.

Even the little kids I know were making fun of Raptor Island.

I guess somebody is watching.

[NewJeffCT]

11. well, it's like a train wreck or big car crash

you can't help but watching the badness sometimes.

I think I remember one with Richard Grieco (man, did he hit a wall!) as some sort of electrician who goes into alternate earth to find out that it has been taken over by giant man-spider creatures.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. I just reviewed two of them

Alien Apocalypse - http://www.horrorview.com/Alien%20Apocalypse.htm

The Fallen Ones - will be posted next week.

[malmapus]

13. I'm still waiting for Dean Cain and Coolio to be in one together

Seems that alot of the movies they are in them, one of these days bound to be in one together heh.

I can't stand Sci Fi Original pictures personally, they seem too boring and way too "B-movie-ish" for me.

[AValdoux]

14. I love these movies

When I watch them I know what to expect so I get quite a kick out of them. They remind me of the monster matinee on tv when I was a kid, the original 50's B movies. You can yell at the TV almost like heckling. My husband & I watch them and laugh thru the whole movie. I love a good monster movie. No tightly written plots or twists, so you don't have to worry about missing anything when you go get a beer or answer the phone. No sick serial killer torturing young women to really creep you out like most horror movies nowadays. I don't even know if you could call them "violent". Getting bit in half by a giant crocodile, c'mon?

Long live, Lorenzo Lamas!!!


AValdoux