There are some great eerie scenes where the dead town folk wander the desert wasteland lost in limbo. Here is a list of the best '80s action movies that arguably represents a list of the greatest action movies of all time. That same year, the studio was sold off to Filmways, a company with a history in TV production, and was dissolved as a moviemaking concern by the end of 1980. The term B movie was first coined in Hollywood’s Golden Age which ran from the 1930’s through till the late 1950’s.

If the films of Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner and Ridley Scott and Tony Scott are the shinier things, then these 20 films are the less showier things. The film is essentially a string of visual circus gags connected by a thin thread of a story. The most notable change was the inclusion of comedy, especially among the lower budgeted films, this might have been done to appeal to a larger audience, or perhaps to compensate for cheap special effects that couldn’t be taken seriously anyway. Here's How to Watch the Marvel Movies in Order (Chronologically and by Release Date), 'The Liberator' Trailer: Netflix Limited Series Uses Animation to Dramatize World War II, The Best Halloween Movies for Kids and Families, 'Run' Trailer: Sarah Paulson Gets Twisted in Hulu's New Thriller from the Director of 'Searching', Exclusive 'Fugitive Dreams' Trailer Teases a Beautiful Black-and-White Shot Search for Home. They featured heaps of neon lights, over the top particle effects and musical scores filled with synthesises and rock music. The story-within-a-story convention works well for the movie, allowing the film to create a creepy pulp horror atmosphere. "Down-and-Out Youths in 'Suburbia,'", Corliss, Richard (1981). Troma also built on another B-studio tradition: re-releasing the often embarrassing early films of actors turning into major stars. This was their first and last directorial effort. [11] Horror was the strongest low-budget genre of the time, particularly in the "slasher" mode as with The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), directed by Amy Holden-Jones and written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown. Vote up your favorites from the list of 1980s action-adventure films below. All ending with the demise of unwitting town folk. But the tidal shift in the majors' focus owed largely to the enormous success of three films: Steven Spielberg's creature feature Jaws (1975) and Lucas's space opera Star Wars (1977) had each, in turn, become the highest-grossing film in motion picture history. "[23], At the same time as exhibition venues for B films vanished, the independent film movement was burgeoning; among the results were various crossovers between the low-budget genre movie and the "sophisticated" arthouse picture. Murders described in the book begin to happen all over the city and then to people close to her. © 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

A brilliantly original concept that is efficiently summed up in the film’s title. As the tools for filmmaking have become cheaper and more malleable, now is the time for rough, ugly, experimental films to shine again as they did in the '70s. [20] Of the nine films released that year to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. box office, two would have been strictly B-movie material before the late 1970s: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dick Tracy. All of these 80s movies have less than 10,000 votes on IMDb. At the end of the 1950’s the double feature faded away and along with it the need for B movies, nevertheless, the term B movie stuck and is still used today. Abel Ferrara, envisioning his first digital film, says, "I want to do it on the Internet...and put it out in 10-minute increments. The Klown puppets are marvellously done, they are cheerfully creepy and deeply sinister.