Sy Fy low budget movies serve a useful purpose

Everyone likes to critisize the Sy Fy Channel science fiction/horror flicks for being low-budget, cheesy special effects, and boring storylines. But hey, what do you expect for free. These Sy Fy sci-fi/horror flicks serve useful purposes.

1) Entertainment for the masses.
This means mass production at economical budgeting of large numbers of quick and easy-to-produce movies for the millions of cable television viewers. We proletariat workers demand our weekly fix of television entertainment in sci fi and horror and action. Big-budget flicks require tens of millions of dollars and many months to set-up and shoot plus post-production. The Sy Fy movies cost a fraction and take only weeks to shoot.

2) Employment for up-and-coming actors and continuing employment for actors past their prime.
These Sy Fy flicks, being fast, relatively easy and relatively cheap to make on a schedule in quantity help showcase the talents of new actors. Also by bringing in actors past their prime, it helps advertise the movies. There's still a useful place and function for has-been actors or those past their prime, and I really mean it. If you're a fan of some past-their-prime actor or actress, then you're happy to see them still get acting work and appear on television.