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Trash films often provide entertainment

No matter how bad a film is, but if it supports positive enjoyment, trash films could also provide amusement and would often be considered entertaining to the audience, says a study.

Typically, trash films are low budget films, which do not correspond to the mainstream standards and taste. For the study, an online survey was conducted among regular consumers of trash films and it was found that most of the participants agreed that the term “cheap” best describes trash films like Sharknado, Plan 9 from Outer Space and The Toxic Avenger.

Almost all participants mentioned low budget horror films as typical examples. The study not only arrived at supporting established hypotheses and assumptions on “bad films” but also at providing new and surprising findings on trash fans and their attitude towards these films.

“Although to a large extent the participants stated that the films in question were cheaply made and thus “trash”, the study also confirmed that trash films are overwhelmingly perceived as a form of positive entertainment,” said Keyvan Sarkhosh, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics – a Germany based non-profit association.

The study provided strong evidence that trash film fans are predominantly male-centric  and contain highly enthusiastic film buffs. The authors of the study were able to show that an active engagement in exchanges considerably contributes to the enjoyment of trash films. 
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