In fact, Hammer Productions began to find a way to survive in the late 1950s with horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein. There were countless other works that were neither horror nor nonsense, including a rare piece such as The Woman Who Was a Bombshell (1956) directed by Roger Corman (1926-), in which a gangster and a stripper are among the few survivors of a nuclear explosion that destroys civilization (this setting is also common in low-budget science fiction and is still made today), who are then attacked by a three-eyed cannibalistic mutant. This led to the name "Z" movies or "Z" trash (not B-grade movies, but "Z" movies, the worst kind of trash). In the midst of this rush of science fiction ranging from the best to the worst, Hollywood's prestigious MGM first tried its hand at science fiction, producing Forbidden Planet (1956), a major space adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by F. M. Wilcox (1905-64). *Some of the terminology that refers to "Z" trash is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…事実,ハマー・プロは,50年代後半から《ドラキュラ》《フランケンシュタイン》などの怪奇映画路線に活路を見いだすことになる。ほかにも,怪奇ともナンセンスともつかぬ作品は無数にあり,核爆発によって文明が滅びた後に生き残った数人(この設定も低予算SFに多く,いまだに作られている)の中に,ギャングが1人,ストリッパーが1人いて,彼らが三つ目の食人ミュータントに襲われるという,ロジャー・コーマン(1926‐ )監督の《原子怪獣と裸女》(1956)のような珍品も現れ,“Z”movie,“Z”trash(B級ならぬ〈Z級映画〉,これ以下はないという〈最低のがらくた〉)と呼ばれるに至った。こうしたピンからキリまでのSFラッシュの中で,ハリウッドの名門というべきMGMが,初めてSFに手を染め,シェークスピアの《テンペスト》を宇宙物に翻案した大作,F.M.ウィルコックス(1905‐64)監督の《禁断の惑星》(1956)を製作。… ※「“Z”trash」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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