Trash Cinema: Trash cinema

Divine from 'Pink Flamingos' (1972 - John Waters)

'They Live' (1988 - John Carpenter)

Torch from 'Puppet Master II' (1991 - Davis W. Allen) 

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.

'To display sadism and discipline alone would only lead to imprisonment. But...simply disguising it with a story, a minimal plot, and a score will result in me being hailed as a creative genius' - Sardu (The murderous performance artist from Joel M. Reed's 1975 cult classic 'Bloodsucking Freaks').