B-movies might sound, on the surface, worse than normal or “A” movies, but anyone who’s dug deep into this particular brand of film will know that such a generalization is unfair. Sure, traditionally speaking, B-movies tend to be rough around the edges, made with lower budgets, and – at least originally – intended to serve as second films within double features, but they can be just as fun as regular old A-movies.
It’s got everything a low-budget horror movie needs: a character out for revenge, someone returning from the dead, and possession included. It is everything you’d want a movie called The Haunted Palace to be. Admittedly, it doesn’t rise above its limitations or transcend the B-movie as a whole, but it’s rock solid and able to deliver the goods, being one of numerous times Corman and Vincent Price collaborated to moderate success.
Narratively, Carnival of Souls centers on a woman who survives a car crash and then goes on a strange, trippy journey, coming across a small town and finding herself unable to move on from the accident she was involved with. It works well as a psychological horror movie with some fun twists and turns along the way, taking a simple set-up and managing to do some fun and unexpected things with it.
In any event, Godzilla’s nowhere to be found in King Kong Escapes, but that’s okay, because the film still manages to be loopy fun and features the titular giant ape going up against a mechanical ape several years before Mechagodzilla was first a thorn in Godzilla’s side. King Kong Escapes isn’t a high point for the series necessarily, but it’s fun for what it is, and also manages to be far from a low point for the series.
After some mayhem there, The Valley of Gwangi gets very King Kong in its final act, with those characters taking a dinosaur back to the non-dinosaur realm to put it on display for money, which leads to inevitable disaster. It’s uneven and clunky in parts, but the sheer novelty of seeing a movie that blends adventure, sci-fi, Western, and fantasy genres makes The Valley of Gwangi worth a look for B-movie fans.
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