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Saturday 10.3.2001
Facts of Trash
Jouni Hokkanen and Nalle Virolainen have defined the trash film in their book Trash Film (Tampere, 1990):
"When the film has been made badly - when the film is bad - the laws of aesthetics will be turned around: the film becomes good and most likely a cult film."
Trash films can also be called turkeys, Z-class films, and in Finland, Ö-class films. Trash films should not be mixed with the B-films Hollywood started to make in the 1930s. At this time you could see two films with the price of one: first, they showed a film which was famous and whose actors attracted the audience to the theatre, then the other. To fulfil the movie theatre's ever growing need for films, the production companies started to make films with assembly line speed. These films were then showed after the A-film, therefore giving them the name B-film.
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