It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

From their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, B movies declined in popularity through the 1970s. As the big Hollywood studios began to make genre films with sky-high budgets, independent producers of low-budget movies could not compete in theaters. The sale of American International Pictures in 1979 and New World Pictures in 1983 marked the end of an era.

The emergence of home video in the 1980s marked the beginning of a new phase, as dozens of B movies were produced each year for the small sc...