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Don't we just call these B-movies?
Only if you consider The Maltese Falcon (1931 AND 1941 versions) B-Movies.
I should have awards for all the drama I exude.
It doesn't sound like this is nearly a consistent enough concept to be tropeworthy. What the heck do E.T., The Maltese Falcon, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes have in common?
^ They exist, they have a plot and characters and eventually end.
Now that I'm done being a smartass, yeah, you're right. This is pretty random and meaningless.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I was going through the keywords for Avengers: Endgame on IMDb, as one does, and I saw a word I never saw before - Psychotronic.
I looked up the definition. It said that Psychotronic Movies are a "denoting to a genre of film, either sci-fi, horror, or fantasy, that were made on a low budget or poor received by critics".
I felt this was odd. Many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films are big budget films filled with bombast and over-the-topness and have broken box office records and have gone over well with critics. As have (most) of the Star Wars films. And E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. And Jurassic Park. And the The Exorcist. And several entries in the Disney Animated Canon
So I'm very confused why those movies would be categorized along side stuff like Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, Manos: The Hands of Fate, and Howard the Duck.
Psychotronic movies have several of the Cult Classic or Camp variety, but tons of films that have done gangbusters at the box office. I'm legitimately perplexed yet at the same time wondering if there should be a trope category regarding this. What do you all think?
Edited by bmoore4026