Before the advent of what would become known as New Horror, the B Movie was a staple of the cinema-going experience. Often schlocky and always done on the cheap, the B Movies function was to get people into the cinema without the studio spending a lot of money and in turn help to finance big budget releases. Without the limits of trying to appeal to a large market or paying attention to a demographic, the B movie was a thing of unbounded creativity and uncensored ingenuity.

B Movies is an ongoing series of illustrations inspired by the low budget films of Golden Age Hollywood. These films display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity approaching the concerns and themes of their time with craftsmanship and skill, unmasking of a piece of my childhood and exploring what it means to dig deep into a rich reservoir of cultural antiquity.

The movies depicted don’t exist in the real world, but for the purposes of this series of drawings. They are a fabrication, a shadow celebrating a bygone era.