Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams on the poster for Army of Darkness
If you're someone who likes films with low to moderate budgets that often belong to horror, action, or sci-fi genres, then there’s a good chance you're a fan of B-movies. A B-movie was once definable as something that was literally secondary to an “A movie,” often being a supporting film within a double feature. That definition became somewhat outdated, at a point, but the spirit of “B-grade” cinema lived on regardless.
You could call Samurai Cop so-bad-it’s-good if you wanted, or you could celebrate it with more sincerity, because it is undoubtedly entertaining, and was trying to be entertaining. Whether it’s entertaining for the reasons the filmmakers wanted it to be entertaining is up for debate, but it almost doesn’t matter when a movie manages to be this much dumb fun.
It’s also a warped prison drama, taking place in a horrifically cruel futuristic jail that the titular Ricky must fight through to survive. Watching Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky kind of feels like watching someone play a supremely gruesome video game for 92 minutes, but seeing what the movie has in store next makes it largely entertaining throughout, even if there’s just a touch of repetition that comes from its premise and relentless action sequences.
6 'Night of the Living Dead' Director: Tom Savini A faithful remake of a classic 1960s B-movie, Night of the Living Dead might not do anything particularly stronger than what was done in the original 1968 movie, but it’s still a compelling zombie movie in any event. Like before, Night of the Living Dead centers on a group of people confined to a farmhouse as they try to survive the early stages of a zombie outbreak.
4 'El Mariachi' Director: Robert Rodriguez A movie that made Robert Rodriguez a sensation within the world of independent cinema overnight, El Mariachi has a famously low budget but tons of creativity and clever filmmaking, all of which distract from any signs of real cheapness. It’s also a movie that proves money isn't the most necessary thing in the world when it comes to staging and filming enjoyable action sequences.
It begins as a crime flick sort of in line with those Rodriguez and Tarantino had helmed earlier in the decade, but has a famously bold switch-up halfway through, at which point From Dusk Til Dawn becomes an entirely different sort of movie.
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