A category C movie is a low-budget film, usually designed for cable television. In this case, “C” means both quality, which is lower than that of films of category “B”, and affiliation (from the first letter in the word English cable - “cable”) [1] .
History
In the 1980s, with the growth of cable television, Level C began to be applied more and more often in relation to low-quality genre films used as software for their broadcasting. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 series, which aired on national cable channels (first on Comedy Central and then on the Sci Fi Channel ), popularized the concept of a category C film. Updating the concept of a television show previously presented by television presenter Vampire three decades before, the series presented cheap, low-quality films, primarily in the genre of science fiction, shot in the 1950s and 1960s. The voiceover at the same time emphasized all the shortcomings of the films. Director Ed Wood was called the “C-film master,” although the concept of a category Z movie is still more applicable to his work. The rapid expansion of niche cable and satellite TV channels such as Sci Fi (with their original films ) and the HBO genre channels in the 1990s and 2000s meant the market was saturated with modern category C films. Category C films premiered on the air of such channels. and they never went to the movies [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Jacques Lursell (2009). The author's encyclopedia of films. ISBN 978-5-904175-02-3
- ↑ DAVID PAYNE: DO FEAR THE REEKER
See also
- Mockbuster
- Operational cinema
- Syfy TV Movies