Introduction and About This Blog

Do you like talking about the Oscars? The cinematography of a truly classic film like Citizen Kane? Great writing? Well if those are your thing then you came to the wrong place. This blog is my own little special place to talk about the movies I love. If guys in rubber suits fighting, giant space eyes, bad acting and the other oddities of cheap cinema are your thing then as Deckard Cain says "stay awhile and listen."

This blog is going to be about my journey through the world of B movies. This is going to be a blog dominated by movies from the 40s-70s. I will also mix in some horror films from the 1980s and 1990s as I can. I want to include slasher films in my posts as well. My unofficial cut off for this blog right now is probably going to be Scream in 1996. I feel like Scream is where I think we saw the rise of the more modern horror film.

My aim for this blog isn't to get too deep into the details of the plot or who played this role or that. I really just want to talk about my thoughts on the movie, the monsters if there are any and if I think it's worthwhile to watch as someone that might be interested in cheesy or bad cinema. I will be using a rating system but it's going to be based on how must watch I think the film is. So for the purposes of this blog Frankenstein and Plan 9 From Outer Space will both be 4 star movies.

The rating system:

**** - must see film. It is either an excellent film or entertaining in it's ineptitude.
*** - a worthwhile watch. It may lack some aspects that a true classic has but is still good to watch.
** - it's okay. You can easily find better movies in this genre.
* - it's just bad. This is a bad movie but it isn't even bad in an entertaining way.
Dud - no redeeming qualities as a movie at all.

My goal is to post 2-3 reviews a week and maybe throw in some other posts about my favorite monsters or just general tales of my childhood with these movies.

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