Yes, these are exciting times indeed my fanatical friends. For the next 49 weeks, I will introduce and recommend a B movie for your viewing pleasure. So I compiled a list of 50 B movies you must see before you die. Besides they’ve been around just as long as the movie industry.īelieve it or not, chances are there’s a B movie for you. There’s something comforting about that I think. Out of the many good films you’ve seen, I bet you can talk with more vigor about the worst ones you’ve seen. You’ll often scratch your head trying to work out the plot. If you’re fortunate it may be so bad that it’s good.
You know what you’re about to watch is bad. Why do we love B movies? I think B movies are comforting. Thought you were about to watch a great white shark hunted in dramatic fashion like only Steven Spielberg can deliver? Nope, this is Sharknado. You’re aware of the hallmarks, right? B-movies often reek of amateur flair. Some but not all of the hallmarks of a B movie include scripts that read like they were written by a room full of eighth-graders, poor visual effects, cringe-inducing dialogue, low budget production design, and zany plot contrivances. It’s a shame to see such a theme wasted on a cinematic flight not worth taking.This week on the B movie docket is Snakes On A Planeī movies are the glue stuck in between all the other genres, oftentimes refusing to conform to any particular genre presets. This is really a story of a mother trying to protect her son and the lengths that parents will go to not only to keep their kid safe but to hide their monstrous side from their progeny. If there’s anything that works it’s how Horvath frames the relationship between Nadja and Elias, even if it gets too much attention. Throw in some clumsy attempts to integrate anti-Islamic sentiment into the narrative alongside a failure to really use the fact that the sun might come up on this transatlantic flight if they’re forced to reroute as a true ticking clock, and “Blood Red Sky” misses its potential in some way in almost every scene. The fight sequences on the plane all blur together both in style and substance, so it becomes increasingly impossible to care just as the tension should be taking off (and there's absolutely no reason that a movie with this plot should be over two hours long). One of the biggest problems is the under-lit direction throws a dim weighted blanket over the thrills. terrorists." The mother/son thing can be used to elevate that but it shouldn't be the main focus. The Elias/Nadja connection is designed to add heart, and it does that at times-Baumeister and Koch have a believable connection-but it feels like it’s at the expense of what this movie needed to be more than anything: dumb fun. We're here for "vampire vs. It’s impossible to get invested in any of it, in part because the POV is mostly that of Elias, stunned at the insanity happening around him as he worries most of all about the fate of his mom. Even as it becomes less and less logically sound, it never finds its spark or sense of tension. And yet even then it feels like its teeth aren’t sharp enough. This great idea is handled in stunningly routine fashion in “Blood Red Sky.” The sense of surprise or playfulness that you would think is inherent in a “Bats on a Plane” concept just isn’t here as “Blood Red Sky” only comes to life in bloody spurts after Nadja allows herself to go full vamp. She takes a drug to manage her “condition,” but the violence aboard the plane springs her to life, and it’s not long before she’s sucking the plasma of the men intent on murdering a plane full of passengers. “Blood Red Sky” is the story of a single mother who happened to have been bit by a creature of the night years earlier. Imagine this story told from the POV of the loosely-defined terrorists that then shifts to Nadja when the chaos agents realize that one of the passengers is actually a vampire. “Blood Red Sky” should be a film that takes a sharp turn at maybe the halfway mark or possibly even later when the “bad guys” realize there’s something they didn’t plan for on the plane. She clearly hides a secret but Thorwarth is depressingly uninterested in holding it for long. Nadja ( Peri Baumeister) is traveling across the Atlantic with her son Elias ( Carl Anton Koch) when it’s hijacked by a group of terrorists intent on taking it down.