B Movie Title Generator – Action International Pictures Version

If you’re a B movie fan like me, you’ve probably heard of American International Pictures. It gave us such classic titles as The She-Creature, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Invasion of the Saucer Men & Hot Rod Girl. It was home to such luminaries as Roger Corman, Bert I Gordon & Edward L Cahn.

Hard to believe that someone would try and rip them off, but there is another AIP out there – Action International Pictures. It’s one of those straight-to-video companies from the 80s. 

No great movies here (exactly the opposite, actually), but plenty of risible titles. Indeed, they seem to follow a basic formula of two juicy key words, and nothing else:

• Space Mutiny
• Future Force
• Teenage Exorcist
• Death Chase
• Jungle Assault

• Eternal Fist
• Project Vampire
• Operation Warzone
• Final Sanction
• Maximum Breakout
• Brutal Fury

They’re funny enough as is, but I noticed they seemed to all run together in my mind, making even funnier combinations. Jungle Fury, anyone? How about Teenage Warzone? Space Exorcist?

I wasn’t expecting that

Here, try it for yourself… I’ve taken all the titles I could find under AIP, split them into their 2 components, then broken them into groups of 10:

• 0 action assault
• 1 alien avenger
• 2 blood breakout
• 3 brutal chase
• 4 battleground cops
• 5 deadly fire
• 6 death fist
• 7 double force
• 8 eternal fury
• 9 fatal hit

• 0 final house
• 1 future island
• 2 invasion kill
• 3 jungle manor
• 4 last mutiny
• 5 lost nerve
• 6 maximum platoon
• 7 miami prey
• 8 hell reactor
• 9 mission ride

• 0 night sanction
• 1 project seed
• 2 rapid skies
• 3 raw threat
• 4 space thunder
• 5 street vampire
• 6 sudden vengeance
• 7 teenage wars
• 8 unknown zone
• 9 cyber hunter

Now, all you have to do is:

1. Think of a 2-digit number (your age, birth date, birth month, address, favorite jersey number – you name it)
2. Look it up in one or more of the tables

For example, my age (63) gives me:

• Death Chase
• Maximum Manor
• Sudden Threat

A book instead of a movie

Not so sure about that second one, so let’s try my favorite jersey number (21):

• Blood Avenger
• Invasion Island
• Rapid Seed

Rapid Seed? Once again, I’m not sure that’s gonna make the cut.

One final try – the year of my birth (59):

• Deadly Hit
• Lost Ride
• Street Hunter

It’s a winner, folks!

Anyway, give it a try yourself. See what you come up with.

By the way, if this sounds familiar, I actually did something like this before, though much more broadly.