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Hello, everybody! Welcome to my blog, "The Lair of Awful Cinema", where I will be talking about B-Rated films and television programs. I may also talk about something related to that. I have been researching this type of thing for several decades of my life, and I am more than willing to put my knowledge out into the world!

This blog used to be called "The Cheesy, the Bad, and the Kaiju" and I was originally to only talk about Japanese tokusatsu and "kaiju figures". However, I have recently discovered several blogs that talk about the same thing and their names also just so happen to be a reference to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". So I ended up completely changing the whole blog, to at least keep some originality!

The Cheesy, the Bad, and the Kaiju's posts weren't really that good anyways. I felt as if I could have done more research on the subject, or I just didn't detail it enough. I also made a few remarks in those posts that I personally disliked, so I simply deleted most of them. I only kept a few (which are all of the ones that were made before this post).

So, back to the original topic. You may be wondering; what exactly is this blog going to be? How is it going to be any different from all of the other B-Movie blogs? Well, to answer the first question, this blog is simply going to be either big or small review-ish things of B-Rated TV shows and films. What genre? It can be anything! It can be horror, sci-fi, tokusatsu, even comedy! Just as long as it (by my definition, the definition of a B-Movie is really more of an opinion, except for the films that are obviously bad) can be considered B-Rated.

So, for those who don't know what a B-Movie is. By definition, it is simply described as a low-budget film or TV show (counting miniseries, shorts, serials, etc.) But, there is a bit more to it. A B-Movie may not really be low budget per say, they were just hokey or gave you the vibes you would get from a B-Movie. They may not necessarily be low budget or badly made, but they are cheesy. Or they have goofy logic, bad actors, etc. They are simply just cheesy films, or they give the viewer a cheesy vibe from watching.

Identifying a B-Movie is hard and somewhat controversial because somebody may not agree that whatever it is is a B-Movie. Someone may think of... let's just say "Godzilla" (2014) as a B-Movie, but another person thinks of Godzilla as an A-Movie (antonym for a B-Movie, A-Movies are good movies). So in other words, the definition of a B-Movie is really revolved around the person's opinion. So don't get mad because my opinion differs from yours please. I respect your opinion, I expect you to respect mine.

Here are some other questions; Are B-Movies safe for your child to watch, and will this blog be family friendly? To answer the first question, it really depends on the movie. With B-Movies, it is best not to assume it is kid-friendly and just show it to your kid. Make sure you look up the film and read through their plot on websites like Wikipedia, IMDB, etc. But what about just the ratings? Well, some B-Movies just so happen to get the incorrect rating. An example of this being Barbarella, which was rated PG despite "inappropriate" imagery. Films like "Jack Frost", or "Poultrygeist" may sound fine for children, but when you look it up, you may find out otherwise. So, tread carefully before showing a B-Movie to your child. And beware, many bad movies show gratuitous breast shots!

However, pretty much every 50s monster movie and tokusatsu are child-friendly. Still look into the show/film, but usually those are safe. To answer the second question, indeed yes! The blog will be a family friendly read, and I will do my absolute best to pick a family friendly subject, but be warned: Some content may not be suitable for a child audience. But either way, I highly doubt that my subjects will have any inappropriate material, the worst that will happen here is that I will review a movie that might have some gratuitous and inappropriate scenes. Not anything too gross, though.

However, this blog may consider a different topic (you will probably see articles about kaiju figures on here, as an example) but about the same genre (B-Rated films and shows).

So, another question. Why bad movies? They're old and forgotten. And usually they are just terrible. Why do we need to remember them? Well, many think that the appeal is how old and forgotten most of them are. Others, it is just the laugh-factor that makes them loved. People have different reasons. My reasons are the first two I mentioned. Not everybody is into B-Movies. It takes a very specific person to enjoy B-Movies. And it is mostly people in their thirties and older. I've sent B-Movie clips to young folks on modern sites, like "Steam" and they don't seem to have any interest at all.

There are whippersnappers on websites like "Ultraman Wiki" and "Wikizilla", but they usually take it very seriously. Both of which are fine. It is the natural order of things for people to have the same or different opinions or interests. Personally, I gawk at the amazing cheesiness of these types of films and I take extreme research into them. I don't mind people having differing opinions and what-not, but I personally find it hard to find something as hokey as Ultraman be taken seriously. But I do not disrespect this opinion.

Right at this moment, there may not be much, but in the future, I will try and pull up some posts when I get the time! Thanks for reading!