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- From: markp@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Mark A. Pitcher)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: PROPOSAL: ALT.PSYCHOTRONIC
- Message-ID: <RuwiuB4w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 00:52:50 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: like communism, but nicer.
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- This is a proposal for ALT.PSYCHOTRONIC, a news group
- dedicated to the discussion of psychotronic films, art, and
- literature.
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- The term "psychotronic" is used mainly in dealing with
- films. More specifically, those films also known as "B",
- exploitation, grindhouse, drive-in, and low-budget. These films
- deal with psycho killers, rock-n-roll, out of control teenagers,
- alien or commie invaders, bikers, drugs, mad scientists,
- international spies, women in bikinis, men in gorilla suits, and
- a multitude of other topics. **
-
- Psychotronic has moved into the areas of art (in the
- form of movie posters), pulp literature, comic books, and is
- slowly making its way into everyday life just by virtue of being
- "different".
-
- This topic is unsuitable for ALT.CULT-MOVIES because
- this is an entire genre, and not just a few specific films. In
- fact, new films are churned out by Hollywood on a monthly basis
- that fit into the psychotronic category, not to mention the
- thousands of movies made since the 1940's.
-
- This topic does not belong in any of the other .MOVIES
- or .FILM groups because it is much more than a film movement.
- Those groups would only get cluttered with talk not related to films.
-
-
- Let me know (by email) what you think, and I'll tally
- the results to see if it warrants further development.
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- ** stolen from the
- "psychotronic calendar"
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