21 Best B Horror Movies & Films / Low Budget Horror Movies

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Top 21 must-see best b horror movies from 22 b horror movies, including Re-Animator, The Evil Dead, Alligator, Night of the Comet, Demons, From Beyond, Brain Damage, The Blob, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and The Toxic Avenger ranked and rated by score.

Top 21 Best B Horror Movies of All Time

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1). Re-Animator (1985) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Honest Review: Re-Animator (1985)
Score: 7.61/10 IMDB: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 75,488
Supernatural, Back from the Dead, Cult Classic, Lovecraftian, Mad Scientist, Medical, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Unrated | Gross: 2023414
Plot / Synopsis: Obsessed with the idea of overcoming the obstacle of death and determined to vindicate himself by backing up his theory, the ambitious medical student, Herbert…
Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson

2). The Evil Dead (1981) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Honest Review: The Evil Dead (1981)
Score: 7.46/10 IMDB: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 242,999
Cabin in the Woods, Gore, Campy, Cult Classic, Splatter, B-Horror
MPAA Rating: NC-17 | Gross: 2400000
Plot / Synopsis: Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil…
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly

3). Alligator (1980) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 7/10 IMDB: 6.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 17,471
Creatures, Drama, Mutants, Urban Legend
MPAA Rating: R | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who…
Director: Lewis Teague
Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick

4). Night of the Comet (1984) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 6.7/10 IMDB: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 25,989
Comedy, Zombies, Cannibalism, Dysfunctional Family, Teens, Zombie - Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 14418922
Plot / Synopsis: It's the first comet to buzz our planet Earth in 65 million years, and everyone seems to be celebrating its imminent arrival. Everyone except Regina…
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Stars: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov

5). Demons (1985) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.61/10 IMDB: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 28,490
Demons, Survival, Confined, Cult
MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: Art imitating art is the basis of this demonic tale of a group of invited guests who are granted a free lunch in the form…
Director: Lamberto Bava
Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo

6). From Beyond (1986) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.59/10 IMDB: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 33,391
Creatures, Cult, Lovecraftian, Medical, Mutants, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 1261000
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland.…
Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

7). Brain Damage (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 6.5/10 IMDB: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 14,321
Comedy, Creatures, Gore, Body Horror, Campy, Cult Classic, Splatter, Urban Decay
MPAA Rating: R | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain. The brain feeds the guy a narcotic substance…
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint-Peter

8). The Blob (1958) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.17/10 IMDB: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 31,222
Classic, Classic Creature
MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen…
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase

9). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Score: 6.13/10 IMDB: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 49,828
Comedy, Campy, Clowns, Maniac, B-Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The…
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael S. Siegel

10). The Toxic Avenger (1984) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Honest Review: The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Score: 5.87/10 IMDB: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 34,585
Comedy, Cult Classic, Mutants, Sci-Fi, B-Horror
MPAA Rating: R | Gross:
Plot / Synopsis: This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hed***stic, contemptuous and vain health club members,…
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Stars: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, Robert Prichard

22 B Horror films / Low Budget Horror Movies sorted alphabetically from A-Z

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1). Alligator (1980) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Creatures, Drama, Mutants, Urban Legend

Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right,...

Director: Lewis Teague
Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick

2). Anguish (1987) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Killer, Supernatural, Body Horror, Cult Classic, Featured Maniac, Maniac, Medical, Mind Bender, Psychic, Single Moms

Plot / Synopsis: A film-within-a-film thriller about two teen girls among a small group of people whom are terrorized in a movie theater by a killer while watching a horror film about a murderous optometrist who stalks his victims in a movie theater in the film. Tagline: The eyes of the city are mine...

Director: Bigas Luna
Stars: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové, Clara Pastor

3). Brain Damage (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Comedy, Creatures, Gore, Body Horror, Campy, Cult Classic, Splatter, Urban Decay

Plot / Synopsis: One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return. Tagline: The movie that will blow your mind!...

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint-Peter

4). Chopping Mall (1986) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Rotten Tomatoes: 5.5/10 | Metascore: 2.2/10 | MPAA Rating: 0

Survival, Campy, Sci-Fi

Plot / Synopsis: Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control. Tagline: Tonight Park Plaza Mall switches on the world's toughest security force. Absolutely nothing can go wrong...

Director: Jim Wynorski
Stars: Kelli Maroney, Tony O''Dell, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson, Barbara Crampton

5). Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 3.8/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,962 | Rotten Tomatoes: 2.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R

Comedy, Campy, Mutants, Sci-Fi

Plot / Synopsis: When Warren and Chrissy notice some strange things happening around their high school, they begin to suspect that something is going on at the nuclear plant next door. Though the plant officials deny that there are any problems, Crissy gives birth to a bloodthirsty mutant who immediately begins eating everyone in the school. Will Warren and Chrissy be able...

Directors: Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Stars: Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard, Pat Ryan, James Nugent Vernon

6). Demons (1985) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Demons, Survival, Confined, Cult

Plot / Synopsis: A group of people are trapped in a large movie theater in West Berlin that is infected by ravenous demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.Tagline: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs...

Director: Lamberto Bava
Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo

7). Evilspeak (1981) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 5.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,206 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R

Supernatural, Cursed, Hell

Plot / Synopsis: An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer. Tagline: Data incomplete... Human blood required. Thus spake the computer...

Director: Eric Weston
Stars: Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese, Claude Earl Jones, Haywood Nelson

8). From Beyond (1986) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Exploring From Beyond – Full Review

Creatures, Cult, Lovecraftian, Medical, Mutants, Sci-Fi

Plot / Synopsis: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.Tagline: Humans are such easy prey...

Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

9). Galaxy of Terror (1981) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Aliens, Madness, Sci-Fi

Plot / Synopsis: SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations. Tagline: ALIEN was the beginning ... Hell Has Just Been Relocated!...

Director: Bruce D. Clark
Stars: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens, Zalman King

10). Ghost Town (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 4.89/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,911 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $75,000

Supernatural, Cursed, Haunted, Western

Plot / Synopsis: Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman. Tagline: The good. The bad. The Satanic...

Directors: Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg
Stars: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover

11). I, Madman (1989) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Plot / Synopsis: A bookshop owner finds that an insane and murderous doctor from one of the store's horror novels has come to life. Tagline: Lose Yourself in a Good Book...

Director: Tibor Takács
Stars: Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook, Stephanie Hodge, Michelle Jordan

12). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Comedy, Campy, Clowns, Maniac, B-Horror

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Plot / Synopsis: Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town. Tagline: It's Craaazy!...

Director: Stephen Chiodo
Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael S. Siegel

13). Night of the Comet (1984) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Comedy, Zombies, Cannibalism, Dysfunctional Family, Teens, Zombie - Comedy

Plot / Synopsis: A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists. Tagline: It was the last thing on earth they ever expected...

Director: Thom Eberhardt
Stars: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov

14). Re-Animator (1985) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Honest Review: Re-Animator (1985)

Supernatural, Back from the Dead, Cult Classic, Lovecraftian, Mad Scientist, Medical, Sci-Fi

Plot / Synopsis: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus. Tagline: H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of horror RE-ANIMATAOR 40th Anniversary 4K UHD: "In celebration of its 40th Anniversary, Re-Animator returns, and for the first time ever, in a stunning 4K UHD restoration, approved by producer Brian...

Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson

15). Retribution (1987) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 5.16/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,284 | MPAA Rating: R

Possession, Revenge, Supernatural Serial killer (Top Supernatural Serial Killers in Movies)

Plot / Synopsis: At Halloween George Miller jumps down from the roof of a hotel. But he's rescued and survives. In psychiatry the young Dr. Jennifer Curtis cares for him and gives him back his will to live. However he suffers from terrible nightmares. Back home, he discovers in the newspaper that his dreams, in which he forces other people to kill...

Director: Guy Magar
Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Leslie Wing, Suzanne Snyder, Jeff Pomerantz, George Murdock

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