B movie

noun

: a cheaply produced movie

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Burton devoured everything from horror films to Ray Harryhausen animations, science fiction B movies and Japanese Kaiju monster films. Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024 Produced by Julie Corman, there’s more than meets the eye to this kids’ B movie and home video triumph from New World Pictures. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2024 First came Cocaine Shark, a B movie about mutant, murderous sharks (which, apparently, never did the drug). Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024 Lopez is unable to decide whether Atlas is a serious entry in the action canon or a B movie. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 May 2024 More stories Roger Corman, the independent-cinema pioneer known as the king of B movies, has died at 98. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 For the rest of the decade, Corman produced and directed B movies in a number of then-popular genres: Westerns, sci-fi creature features, and the rock & roll teen pictures Corman would later translate into ‘60s counterculture fare, like 1966's The Wild Angels and 1967's The Trip. Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 May 2024 Roger Corman, who for decades dominated the world of B movies as the producer or director of countless proudly low-budget horror, science fiction and crime films, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, 12 May 2024 The electric blue of Florida’s keys provide a fresh, picturesque backdrop to a lot of B movie pulp, but the rest is properly familiar. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of B movie was in 1948

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“B movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/B%20movie. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.

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