Seriously...how do these movies keep being made?

They make the network slightly more money than running an infomercial.

Because they are so inexpensive to make. If Syfy has rights to repeats, they also get incremental revenue for repeat airings. While the audience and ad revenue will be relatively low, it doesn't matter if the initial cost was very low as well.

Not saying I like most of these movies. Just explaining why they keep getting made. Same as all the reality shows on other channels. They are cheap to produce so the networks and channels don't need huge audience numbers to make them profitable.

A lot of these movies would be so much better with decent writing and smart directing. But apparently they don't want to pay for decent writers. Or some of these writers may actually be somewhat decent, but they toss out these nonsense scripts in an hour or two, just to make some extra money. You would hope that those writers wouldn't be so cynical and make an effort to use a brain cell or two to make something coherent. But that's not the case.

The movies don't have to be deep Oscar-caliber productions. There are low-budget movies with some thought or attempts at creating comedy or a sense of adventure without mega-movie budgets. A few of the Syfy "Original Movies" have been respectable. But most haven't. That's a shame.