Oh, interesting. Thanks, guys!
The context that I heard of Schlock was that I went to a little theater in NYC (
Pioneer Theater). It was showing Tokyo Gore Police, Feast II, Trailer Park of Terror, just to name a few. The name of the festival was "Schlocktober" (obviously clever naming, but it got me to thinking about the genre name itself).
So maybe Tokyo Gore Police would be better deemed as "Splatterpunk" and not Schlock?
And how about this - Would we consider Herschel Gordon Lewis to be Schlock? He worked with VERY little budget, untenured actors and minimal script, but put out film after film after film...