Cinema Verite In America
A B-Movies primer
While there have been movies, there was traditionally B-movie on a budget, just where advertising, films Usually Serie B genre films (sci-fi, Western, horror, etc.) with actors with little or no fame, often by small specialized studies and put out as an assembly line.
Although less typical, early B-movies were successful, profitable and produce their own group separate stars, different from that of the main protagonists of the day. They also provide a way to Hollywood for many European directors. Back to the golden age, a night at the movies usually consists of a newscast, an episode of a series (such as Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers), several cartoons and a double function of a film series B and a first feature "film." B-movies have been the first film and the film has always been considered less important.
In the 1930s, the kind of B movie was dominant in the West. In the 40s gangster films and black films became popular. In the 50s, with the rise of rock and roll, the Cold War and adolescents as a social force B-movies has exploded in a wide range of areas: the rock movies roll, juvenile delinquents and melodramas hot rod, pastiches sci-fi/horror connotation Red Scare, and foreign films dubbed into English (for example, Japanese Godzilla, the Italian Hercules).
The 60 B-movies he has seen the emergence of Hammer Films of Great Britain, movie "Beach" with Frankie and Annette and Company, Elvis movies (which, despite the most famous singer starred in the world, were decidedly productions low quality), Nudie Cuties Russ Meyer, and many masterpieces of Roger Corman low budget. In addition, the radical social changes of the 60 films are in Series B of days before doing this to "legitimate" movies. Course The most famous example is Easy Rider.
lax moral attitudes of the 60s has also helped the birth of the first Gore movie, courtesy of Herschell Gordon Lewis. Although Lewis has contributed greatly to B-movies, his most influential film festival blood splash first real movie. Although the rules mild day, when it was considered extremely concern. Films like this and Color Me Blood Red opened the way for the current trend of "torture porn" movies like Saw and the number of shelters.
Although the seeds of the operation were planted in the '60s, certainly took shape in the scene Grindhouse 70. movies Martial arts have been a heavy favorite in grindhouses across the country. Produced in Hong Kong, often by the legendary Shaw Brothers studio, and dubbed into English before being distributed in the United States, these films star Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan and resulted in a subculture that all continues to flourish.
The 70s also saw the birth the phenomenon of the midnight movie. The counter-enter himself and what better place to have fun fueled a late night screening of El Topo drug or the image of Rocky Horror Show. At this point, all gloves are extinct. Virtually everything that has been taboo good: blaxploitation, sexploitation, women in prison films, and perhaps the most influential hardcore horror best example of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
All of which we leads to the 80s, the decade in which the budget horror film down so successful. The success of the chain is cheap Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween in the 70 high on Friday of the series 13, The Evil Dead movies, et al. and a true 80 there was an explosion of terror. Many B horror movies are good online resources, such as fatal and yours.com theronneel.com . One of the main forces in B movies during this decade has been Lloyd Kaufman and Troma pictures. Founded in 1974 by Kaufman, Troma was showcased in the 80s with movies as Surf Nazis must die and The Toxic Avenger.
In the 1990s, with the death of the grindhouse and the rise of television cable, the B-movie theater has lost places, but survived because of the revolution in home video. What once had been shown in a Grindhouse is now on shelves in your local Blockbuster. video products directly to prosper, composed mainly of action films and thrillers erotic starving.
The rise of the digital age has seen the movie B movies directly on live DVD, which often are the result of successful films made by major studios like Disney. The current cost of a movie from an average of $ 50 million to $ 70 million. With advances in digital technology, movies Respect can be made for a fraction of that cost, making low-budget films a "too good to be true" movie studio proposal concerned their bottom line is all studio films.
About the Author
Theron Neel is an author specializing in articles, reviews and interviews in the horror film genre.
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