CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss B-Fest 2025. This is perhaps the best B-Fest line up CatBus has seen, and from the sound of it, the best his big sister has attended. And A&O Productions earned these accolades because the line up did not make it out to the public until at least an hour and a half before this 24-hour movie marathon kicked off. I Dig Crazy Flicks was able to be the last minute sponsor of B-Fest Traditions, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "The Wizard of Speed and Time", but with that being the case, our host had low expectations for the kids at Northwestern to high jump over. He did not know that they were going to bring a pole vault.
If a movie was bad like "Truth or Dare? Critical Madness", it was so bonkers that you could not help but enjoy it with the crowd. If a film was morally corrupt like the gory Christian-exploitation flick, "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?", the audience bonded together with the insults and riffs that all fascists deserve. And B-Fest did not miss when it came to nostalgia movies to amuse the audience. We're talking about the animated, "The Transformers: The Movie", JCVD and Dennis Rodman teaming up to stop Mickey Rourke in "Double Team", and two movies featured devious characters portrayed by B-Movie royalty, Mary Woronov.
It was a comedy of errors. A fire alarm went off as Pam Grier was smoldering. Sponsors were failing to show up when scheduled resulting in constant reshuffling of the line up. One of the DVDs refused to let the crew skip 20-minutes of no-budget movie trailers, resulting in them turning to YouTube to projecting it with pop-up ads. Honestly, when you are celebrating the best of the worst films ever made, this all seems quite appropriate.