B-Movies

I've always been a big fan of B-movies, therefore upcoming horror movie cover assignment is very interesting. What is a B-movie ? Characteristics of B-movies are low budget, poor special effects and they usually fall into horror, sci-fi, western or suspense genres. If i want to laugh while watching movie, B-movie is better choice than most comedies.

I've collected some B-movie posters and covers from the internet to show some of the common characteristics they share.

This is a good example of typical horror B-movie cover. A Monster, man and sexy woman, common elements of the 50's horror movie can be found from this cover. Black, red and yellow colors as well as wavy edged font are used in almost every cover of older horror movie. The 50's horror movies are also named in similar way; "Night of the...", "Attack of...", "...from space/black lagoon/beneath the sea".

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Old horror movies are considered as comedies today. However, in the 50's people were truly frightened by those movies. Production of low budget b-movies is not limited in the 50's, there are numerous independent film makers today who keep the genre alive. Peter Jackson maybe best known of Lord of the ring trilogy, but b-movie fans praise his earlier films such as Bad Taste, Meet the feebles and Braindead. Father of Evil Dead saga Sam Raimi, is another significant film director who began his career making B-movies.


This is my B-movie cover exercise entirely based on images provided by lecturer Thierry Bernard.