My name is Jason Soto and I am the maintainer and main reviewer of this site. This guide will help you, well, guide through the site and explain what various things are and provide some backstory on the creation of the site.
1. The Creation of The Site
On August 12th, 2005 "Invasion of the B-Movies" was born. Prior to that, I've been writing movie reviews for a project I started called "Friday Night Video Review" where I watch a movie every Friday night and review it. After doing that for over a year and kinda getting bored of writing reviews of good movies, and seeing that my more popular reviews were the bad movies, I ditched that project.
2. The Reviews
I dunno if the word "review" is the proper term to describe what I (and others) write. There are "reviews" which is a quick overview of the movie pointing out major plot points and then giving a final thought and rating. Then there are "recaps" which is when someone describes every single moment in a movie. I guess I fall somewhere in between: I try to be as detailed as possible but keep it short enough so it don't take up 25 pages or more.

I have often been criticized for the way I write and how I seemingly make up words. I just chalk it up to being a laid back kinda guy and since this is a FREE website (as in you are seeing this site for free. I, however, do pay money to keep it up) and it's a site making fun of b-movies, I figured there was no need to be all prim and proper. With that said, I do spell check and make sure each sentence makes some kind of sense. I don't always catch a mistake (and my Spell Checker is obviously a meth addict, flagging properly spelled words but skipping over odd words like "wirled" when I meant "wired".) So if you see a mistake on my review, I would appreciate it if you'd drop me a line pointing it out.

And finally, the rating system.  I use the "star" method, and I do not award "half stars". I dunno why really, I just don't use em. So here's a breakdown on how the system works:
This is quite possibly my most favorite B-Movie ever. This is a rare rating but I'm sure it'll happen. Someday.
This wasn't a painful movie to sit through. I enjoyed the experience and got many laughs.
Pretty good. Could be better, but I didn't go completely insane.
It was just "ok". The acting might've been bad, there might've been some boring moments, but I've seen worse.
I reward a movie this if the entire movie was awful but maybe one or two things overall was great. Usually one of those things is nudity.
I absolutely hated this movie with a buring passion and I wish to never watch or think about this movie ever again. BE GONE FROM WHINCE YOU CAME, EVIL DOER!!
3. This Review Site Is Rated "R".
Just wanted to point out that this site isn't really intended for children. There are heavy usages of swear words and there are images of topless (or some cases full-on nude) women. I'm 100% against censorship, so if you don't want your kids reading and seeing such things, well, keep a closer eye on what they're looking at.
4. Probes
A "probe" is kind like a regular review except there are no images and they may be about movies I saw in the theaters. I didn't have a rating system at first, but I'm changing that soon.
5. Mass Invasions
A "Mass Invasion" is when me and a group of my friends and/or readers watch the same movie and we each take turns writing the review. I assign each person two chapters of the DVD (which equals anywhere from 10-20 minutes of the movie) and they write about what they saw. Then at the end everyone takes turns describing what they thought of the movie overall. It's a fun experience for everyone.
6. Other Reviews
There are three other reviews I have on the site that aren't really catergorized:
Shorts, Reviews From My Friend Mary, and "Date My Mom. You probably COULD say "shorts" is a category and you'd be right. But it's my site and if I don't wanna categorize it, it's my decision. OK??

Anyway, "Shorts" are often short films that cover certain topics like how to talk to your kids about sex, how "special people" should have sex, and what that burning sensation is. I also reviewed an episode of an old TV show called "One Step Beyond" in the shorts section.

"Reviews From My Friend Mary", um, the title is kinda self explanatory. I gave her her own section cause I like the way she writes and word things.

And "Date My Mom" is a MTV dating show. I explain the entire thing on the "Date My Mom" page.
7. Why Other Reviews Look Different (And Crappier) Than Others
The first six or so months I was updating this site, I was still trying to figure things out. What the layout should be and whatnot. And I didn't have any way to take screencaps, so I had to rely on Google Images and had to use what I could find there.

For example, all 15 or so movies I watched during "Halloweenfest" don't have any images at all. But now that I have a DVD player on my computer that takes awesome images, I will be going back to those imageless reviews and doing them over again. Please be patient with me about those.
8. Reader Reviews
I probably should put this closer to the "Review" section but I'm an extremely lazy person and don't feel like changing all the numbers.

Anyway, I do accept "Reader Reviews" as long as you follow the format that I use:

List all the characters you think are important to the movie/review and give a brief, but humorous, description about them.

The review. Like I said, details are good but no need to describe the color of the walls or how many cups are in the sink, unless you wanna make a point or wanna be humorous.

Images would be good but if you're unable to get images, let me know and I'll provide them for you. FREE OF CHARGE! Aren't I a nice guy?

A final thought about the movie overall and a rating using the star system up above. If you wish to include your email address or any other website you wanna pimp, please include that as well.

I do maintain the right to not post the review or do any nessessary editing (like spelling and whatnot), but I will not tamper with THE WORDS. I hope that makes sense.
9. Browsers
Pretty early on I use to do this thing with the images in the reviews where instead of putting the caption underneath it, I would simply have it pop up when you move the mouse over the image. I have found out since then that certain browsers (AKA the thing you are seeing this site one, I'll list examples in a moment) do not allow this pop-up thing to happen. So I have switched to putting the caption on the bottom of the image.

This site has been tested with the following browsers:
Internet Explorer
Firefox
MSN
AOL
SBC Yahoo

If your browser is missing from this site and it works just fine, drop me a line and let me know.
10. Mailing List
If you wish to be updated on when a new review is posted, or I have some piece of news that I want everybody to know, sign up for my mailing list! It's simple! Just email me saying "Add me to the mailing list!" and I'll add you. If you wish to be removed from the list, that's fine also. Just know that my feelings will be hurt.
11. Emails
Since we're on the subject, I do personally respond to each and every email I get. So if you have a question or a comment or some kind of hateful remark, I'd love to hear from you!!

Please no spam. I will hunt you down and make you digest each Viagra pill you offer to me if you send me spam. And I don't know any wealthy dictators in Africa.
So don't even.
12. Other Random Stuff That Didn't Deserve Their Own Number
It only happened once (or twice, I don't remember now honestly) but in the off chance you are a movie producer/director/writer and you made a crappy ass movie that you want me to see and/or review, I'll do it. Why not?

There is a difference between B-Movies and Bad Movies. A B-Movie, which stands for "Budgeted Movie" are movies whos budget ran anywhere from a dollar (or less) to maybe 500 dollars. An example of this is "Manos: The Hands of Fate", a movie made on a dare! A Bad Movie is when the movie has a huge budget, maybe some famous people, and even a famous director, but it just sucks. And it sucks big time. An example of this is "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl".

The Amazon ad's at the bottom of the review are legit. If you wish to purchase the movie reviewed, you can click on that link and it'll take you to the order page. And I maybe get something in return when you do this, so if you wanna support the site you should do it this way.

I live in Indiana, currently engaged (I know, shocking huh?), and I am aware of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". If it weren't for that, this site wouldn't exist. And if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.