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The good, the bad... and the weird! An international survey of psychotronic films and the independent film-makers, distributers, reviewers and fanatical audiences who traffic in them around the world and beyond.
What the #%*@! is a Psychotronic Film?
Originally, "Psychotronic films" were not a genre of films per se, the way sci-fi, horror or western films are, but rather a choice selection of films from across all of these genres with a single common trait - they're so bad, they're good! All the more we can say is "you'll know a psychotronic film when you see it".
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink Filmmaking!
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." -- Orson Welles
Films considered psychotronic in nature generally spring from the fertile imagination of the budget restricted filmmaker who tries to make up for their lack of cash in creative ways (although another theory may be they just don't see the world the way everyone else does).
New generation of digital filmmakers learning their craft by imitating the films which made the biggest impression on them growing up have created a genre - "Neo-Psychotronic" films, perhaps, by imitating the films which made the biggest impression on them as children.
Join The World of Psychotronic Film Webring
If you've made a psychotronic film, or have a psychotronic film related site then we want you to join the webring.
Guidelines for Admission
Very few really. We'd love to include stuff that can be enjoyed by all ages, or at the very least teens without parental guidance. All we ask is that keep the material relatively clean; don't submit material parents would not want their teenagers seeing.