Proper noun
Poverty Row
(slang, historical) The small and mostly short-lived B-movie studios in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s, many of them near what is now Gower Street.
Columbia was one of many start-up studios on " Poverty Row " in Los Angeles. Source: Internet
The film otherwise follows the template of the Poverty Row horror films of the 1940s. Source: Internet