Meanings
nounZ-movie (plural Z-movies)
plural Z-movies
- broadcastingA very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.
2021 July 4, Jonathan Romney, “‘I want to make people laugh’: Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
Origin
By extension from B-movie. Compare Z-list.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French série Z
- série ZTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
Z-movie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Z-movie
MLA
“Z-movie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Z-movie. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Z-movie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Z-movie.
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