https://vo.rs/tags/poverty-row/Latest from the Poverty-Row desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/poverty-row-and-the-democracy-of-the-cheap-horror-film/<p>The prestige history of American horror is a history of the majors: Universal built the monster, MGM and RKO and Paramount refined it, and the canon was written from the top down. Underneath that history runs a second one, cheaper and more interesting for being cheaper. Below the great studios sat a cluster of tiny operations grinding out films at a few days apiece for the bottom half of the double bill, and horror was one of their staple products, because horror was one of the few genres that could frighten an audience without money. This was Poverty Row, and its bargain-basement monster movies did something the majors could not: they made horror a form almost anyone could afford to make.</p>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000