“B-movies” are low-budget commercial genre films, often in horror, science fiction, action, crime, or exploitation, originally shown as secondary features in double bills. They were produced quickly with limited budgets, often allowing more experimentation than mainstream studio films. Examples include Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Foxy Brown (1974). Their decline followed the end of double-feature cinema, the rise of blockbuster-driven studio production, and the shift to television, home video, and streaming as dominant distribution models.