After watching Rewind This I had the urge to watch some VHS B-movies; you know the kind of productions made on a shoestring budget, with "ludicrous" plots and tons of fan service? Despite not having seen many, I think these movies have their own charm and can be entertaining, if you adjust your expectations that is. So I went looking in the Internet Archive and surely enough there's a goldmine of VHS rips, partiularly of the kind of movies I'm looking for, so I start watching... As I make my way through the 300+ titles, I'll be writing reviews for the most noteworthy ones ITT.
The VHS rips collection is here: https://archive.org/details/video_archive_553-cd-207
Hash: 553cd207f5601ddb9e6aa78082dc7602c390e6c6
>Abducted (1986)
A high school girl jogging in the woods is kidnapped by a bearded lunatic, who takes her to his cabin away from civilization. Soon an old man joins them.
The plot is quite simple and the pacing is slow, however we get to see plenty of the natural landscape in between scenes so it's more palatable. The subpar acting and bizarre dialogue almost works, considering that the victim is practically a child, and the kidnapper is a total savage. The movie handles the tension between the cast considerably well and doesn't resort to cheap gore or nudity scenes, so it works nicely as a serious albeit mild thriller film.
>American Tiger [aka American Rickshaw] (1990)
Now this is a wacky one. An american rickshaw puller gets entangled in a murder case after a brief encounter with a hooker and her four-fingered friend, while unknowingly being helped by a Chinese witch.
I started playing this movie and kept thinking "what the hell am I watching?" The events are hilariously nonsensical at first, and by the time the plot becomes clear I'm already engaged in the story and its eccentric cast. Viewers are served a healthy dose of action and mystery, with a side of fan service for good measure. What the movie lacks in acting quality, it more than makes up for in outlandish writing and direction, with amazing results.
Overall an absolutely zany movie that manages to be very entertaining. Recommended.
>Bad Blood (1989)
A man finds a painting of himself in a gallery hosted by a strange woman, who upon meeting him claims to be his real mother. Later the man and his wife pay the strange woman a visit at her lavish mansion, and she wants him all to herself, in more ways than one.