Film Z adalah film-film beranggaran rendah yang memiliki kualitas lebih rendah daripada film B.

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Penggunaan terawal dari istilah tersebut (sebagai film kelas-Z, dan tanpa arti penghinaan penuh yang biasanya dimaksudkan sekarang) sejauh ini terletak dalam sebuah ulasan surat kabar Januari 1965 oleh kritikus Kevin Thomas tentang The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), sebuah film American International Pictures yang disutradarai oleh Roger Corman.

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McCarthy, Todd, and Charles Flynn, eds. (1975). Kings of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System—An Anthology of Film History and Criticism. New York: E.P. Dutton. 
Peary, Danny (1988). Cult Movies 3. New York: Fireside. 
Quarles, Mike (2001 [1993]). Down and Dirty: Hollywood's Exploitation Filmmakers and Their Movies. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 

Schaefer, Eric (1999). "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press. 
Taves, Brian (1995 [1993]). "The B Film: Hollywood's Other Half", in Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939, ed. Tino Balio. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, pp. 313–50. 
Thomas, Kevin (1965). "Poe 'Tomb' Is Stylish Scare Film", Los Angeles Times, January 22.

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