B-Movies, Cult Films and Wretched Sleaze
Read the Introduction to see where I’m coming from. Or just skip right to the genres (click on the images for my reviews):
(You can also go to the Movie Review Index for everything in simple alphabetical order.)
(NOTE, January 2019: The alphabetical order on many of the genre pages is a mess right now. I used Envira Gallery to make them and their latest update doesn’t work with the method I was using to organize the pages. My account with them ends in March. I’m not sure if I’m going to work on a fix or not, since not many people use these pages. SUGGESTIONS welcome.)
Action – Guns, swords, exploding helicopters and ninjas. Some of the good stuff in life.
Arthouse – The avant garde, the abstract, the head-scratchers and the ground-breakers (in other words, not a lot of exploding helicopters or ninjas here)
Comedy – Dark comedy, light comedy. dry comedy, wet comedy.
Crime and Suspense – This is where you’ll find the noir. Also, gangsters, detectives, rats, hoods, stoolies, fall guys and other doomed souls.
Documentaries – Watch other people live real life so you don’t have to do silly things like that.
Drama – I’m the kind of guy who puts Freaks in the drama section.
Horror (Pre-1968) – A mad monster party!
Horror (1968 and Beyond) – The horror section here got a little too unwieldy, so I split it off. 1968 felt like a good marking point. Come at me with a chainsaw if you disagree!
Juvenile Delinquents and Motorcycles – JDs and biker gangs. Switchblades and choppers. ‘Nuff said. They deserve their own section. Also, I could never decide whether to put these in Action or Crime.
Music – Musicals and music-related stuff (music documentaries, however, are in the Documentaries section). It’s not rocket science.
Sci-Fi and Speculation – Now HERE’S some rocket science! Sort of. Sometimes. This section is for future visions. Also, space opera. Technology gone rogue is also here. Most 1950s giant radioactive hamster movies and alien invasion flicks go here, as well. Lasers are optional, but welcome.
Trash – Sexploitation, mostly. Also, where else do you put Reefer Madness? I enjoyed throwing a Kirk Cameron movie in the middle of all of this flesh. More of that to come.
Westerns – Cowboy hats and six-shooters, sometimes with spaghetti, sometimes not. There are 832 million Italian westerns and 71 billion American B-westerns. I intend to get as many of them herded into this corral as I can.
Got a problem with my genre classifications? Let me know. I want to put together a complaint page.