Trash Cinema  Tags: film cinema trash_cinema  

What decade is your favourite for trash / genre movies?

This page is a resource for Trash Cinema (aka Paracinema) - often forgotten and much maligned movies that typically sacrifice traditional notions of artistic merit for increased thematic exploration.

Additional definitions:

'In addition to art film, horror, and science fiction films, "paracinema" catalogues "include entries from such seemingly disparate genres" as badfilm, splatterpunk, mondo films, sword-and-sandal epics, Elvis flicks, government hygiene films, Japanese monster movies, beach party musicals, and "just about every other historical manifestation of exploitation cinema from juvenile delinquency documentaries to ... pornography' - Jeffrey Sconce

'Films made with little or no attention to quality or artistic merit but with an eye to a quick profit, usually via high-pressure sales and promotion techniques emphasizing some sensational aspect of the product' - Ephraim Katz.

'Jan Pehechaan Ho' from Gumnaam (1965)

As featured in Terry Zwigoff's 'Ghost World'

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