The Greatest B-Movies Your Weirdest Friend Has Begged You to Watch! Ep 3

The B-movie deep cuts your weirdest friend has been begging you to watch — including the toga movie that was Arnold's first role and the creature feature where the future Predator played a mutant bear. Films #80 to #71. Episode 3 of The Ultimate Guide to B-Movies climbs into the deep cuts — the rewards-the-curious tier of the hundred greatest B-movies ever made. We open with Hercules in New York (1969), a 22-year-old Schwarzenegger credited as "Arnold Strong" and dubbed over completely because nobody could parse the accent yet. From there it gets stranger: Demon Wind (1990), ninety minutes of dream-logic farmhouse chaos, and Dollman (1991), Albert Pyun's Full Moon classic about Brick Bardo, the thirteen-inch alien cop with the universe's most powerful handgun. The countdown runs through Iron Sky (2012), the crowdfunded Finnish epic about Nazis returning from the dark side of the moon, and I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990), a gloriously gross British splatter-comedy featuring Anthony Daniels — yes, C-3PO — as a priest. We hit Scanner Cop (1994), the sincere direct-to-video Scanners spinoff with exploding heads, and Retroactive (1997), a genuinely tense James Belushi time-loop thriller that went straight to video and vanished. Closing the episode: Mazes and Monsters (1982), Tom Hanks' first leading role riding the D&D satanic-panic wave; Prophecy (1979), John Frankenheimer's mutant-bear eco-horror with the most infamous sleeping-bag kill in the genre — performed by Kevin Peter Hall, who'd go on to play the Predator; and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), the practical-effects zombie comedy from future Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. These are the unsung gems, the late-night rentals, the tapes worth hunting down. FILMS IN THIS EPISODE #80. Hercules in New York (1969) #79. Demon Wind (1990) #78. Dollman (1991) #77. Iron Sky (2012) #76. I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) #75. Scanner Cop (1994) #74. Retroactive (1997) #73. Mazes and Monsters (1982) #72. Prophecy (1979) #71. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)