Last week Syfy Channel's original movie "Sharknado" got big social media buzz -- but was actually a ratings bust, according to this post's citing of a
Los Angeles Times article. Still, last
week's social flurry was a sign of the ubiquity of the channel's original "B-movie monster machine" which has been turning out such gems "as the 2011 non-hit
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, [in
which] 1980s pop star Tiffany was eaten by an enormous alligator as Debbie Gibson watched, scream-crying, from a helicopter that had come to save her," writes Claire Suddath. Starting in 2002, the
channel's movie factory has created a product that is "cheap, it is stupid, and it is enormously successful."
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