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The Verified Answer for Cinephile’s guilty pleasure, perhaps is:
- BMOVIE
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼Back when entertainment meant going out to a theater, it was common for viewers to get a bonus film, cheaper and more lurid than the feature, called a B MOVIE. As campy and unstudied as they were (and continue to be, in spirit) they were often crowd pleasers and even critical darlings — think Russ Meyer or “The Blair Witch Project.” An article in the journal Poetics, no less, indicates that a love of “bad” movies indicates intelligence, by the way. And as far as the test of time, a lot of B movies have probably outlasted their “A” counterparts.