Exploitation

[Proukunin]

Is anyone here a fan of Exploitation film?

If so what are your favorite films?

I'll start off with 5:
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
Emmanuelle In America
The Beyond
Hell Of The Living Dead

[Pirate Utopian]

I love 'em.

Some of my favorites are:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Cannibal Holocaust
Evil Dead movies
Death Race 2000
Sugar Hill
Zombi 2
Mondo Cane
The Toxic Avenger
Evil Ed

To name a few. Here's a 10 minute short that qualifies. I posted this in chit-chat too a few days ago. It starts of slow but believe me it gets great.
T-rJndNbCYY

[Proukunin]

Oh I love Zombie 2.

Evil Dead is the shit along with Toxic Avenger.

I have most of these on DVD along with Suspiria and I found I Spit On Your Grave at Best Buy for like 10 Dollars.

[Proukunin]

haha that short was funny as shit too.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Man, I can't believe that someone else watches these types of films on this board! Especially films like Emanuelle in America. That's awesome (that someone else watches these films, not EIA, which I thought was pretty bad, except for the rather impressive special effects...I'm sure you know what I mean by that).

Anyway, here's some that I like (that haven't been mentioned yet):

Cannibal Holocaust (1980, Italy)
Pieces (1982, Spain)
Don't Torture A Duckling (1972, Italy)
Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1999, Germany)
Re-Animator (1985, USA)
Singapore Sling (1990, Greece)
Thundercrack! (1975, USA)
In A Glass Cage (1987, Spain)
Ebola Syndrome (1996, Hong Kong)
Hitch-Hike (1977, Italy)
The Untold Story: Human Pork Chop (1993, Hong Kong)
Nekromantik (1987, Germany)
Women's Prison Massacre (1983, Italy)

I'll post more later. Those are thirteen of my favorites, though. A couple of them (such as the phenomenal "In A Glass Cage") are a little too "classy" to be considered straight-up exploitation, but I threw them in there because they're almost certain to appeal to exploitation fans...I'm a big fan of really sick & deranged arthouse films, personally. If you liked EIA then you should check out Women's Prison Massacre, as it stars Laura Gemser reprising her role as Emanuelle, only it's a thriller instead of a weird porno. Gemser actually had a certain on-screen presence, and it's a shame she got wasted in so many shitty Joe D'Amato films, LOL. It's directed by Bruno Mattei, who's only other films I've seen are Hell Of The Living Dead and SS Girls, both of which were terrible in my opinion.

[Proukunin]

I love Women's Prison Massacre.

lol IK a lot of people dont like Joe, But Antropophagus is badass. The one movie I can't stand by him though is Contamination .7 about the killer trees.
I just recently watched Bloody Moon by Jesus Franco and it wasn't all that bad.
I mainly like EIA because of the special effects they did in the 'Snuff' film.

Here's some more you guys might now or should check out:
Blood Feast
Blacula
A Virgin Among The Living Dead(if you can sit through Jess Franco it's okay, and also it has no zombies.)
Killing Birds
Rats
The Prowler
Absurd
AXE!
Cannibal Ferox
Terror Firmer

[Os Cangaceiros]

Anthro is actually one of the very few D'Amato films that I liked...it had a kind of slow-burning, atmospheric feel to it that I liked, although I've heard a lot of people criticize it for being "boring" or whatever. It had a couple of really great set-pieces, though, including that one scene in which the lightning illuminates George Eastman, the blind girl in the barrel, and the infamous "violence against the pregnant" scene. The only other D'Amato I had seen before this was the godawful Caligola: The Untold Story which, while including enough anal sword rape, bestiality, Laura Gemser and general smut/depravity to appease even the most insatiable sleaze fan, still didn't make it anything other than trash.

Absurd was OK, too, although it seemed like D'Amato was trying to create his own version of Halloween or something. Don't really remember all that much of it, except for the babysitter getting forced into an oven in a scene that seemed to go on forever, and the ending (with the severed head).

The only Jess Franco film I've seen is The Diabolical Dr. Z, which was OK, but not anything I'd watch again. Are you familiar with Jean Rollin's work in France? Rollin gets compared to Franco a lot, I suppose because they were both directors of arthouse horror and exploitation who also dabbled in directing pornography. "Fascination" was pretty good.

Also, have you seen any "neo-exploitation" like A Serbian Film, I'll Never Die Alone and Ex-Drummer? Quite a few good films have been coming out in recent years, actually.

[Magón]

Russ Meyer films are pretty great and hilarious.

[Proukunin]

I havent gotten to check out any new exploitation.
Ive heard about Jean Rollin and I know he helped make A Virgin ATLD and Ive seen A Living Dead Girl on Netflix, but other than that I havent seen anything..

I was reading just now on him and there is a movie called The Grapes of Death by him..Is that good by any chance?

Russ Meyer is crazy haha shit like Mondo Topless

[Proukunin]

Also, If you like Women In Prison films, 99 Women wasn't totally bad but not the greatest. Not like WPM. also if you like cannibal movies Emmanuelle and The Last Cannibals was pretty good in my opinion.

[Magón]

I think there should be a RevLeft Exploitation Film Lovers Group. Each week we can all vote on suggested exploitation films, and figure out which one to watch for that week. Then of course, say what we thought of it and what should come next? :thumbup1:

[Os Cangaceiros]

:thumbup1: I was thinking of doing that for a while, actually. I think I might start one.

[Os Cangaceiros]

check it:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=684

[Pirate Utopian]

Virgin Among the Living Dead is really boring tbh. Anthoropophagus takes too long but the gore is nice.

The Grapes of Death is good. Nice zombie-esque flick. If you like that try Blind Dead series.

[Proukunin]

I seen PG on one of the Blind Dead movies. I think Tomb of The Blind Dead..did that effect the movie???

[Pirate Utopian]

I wouldnt know as I'm not sure what a PG is. I assume it has something to do with American age restrictions.

It's not a terribly gore movie, not by today's standard, but they have great atmosphere. I downloaded it, so I probably saw the uncut version.

[Proukunin]

PG stands for parent guidance. It is the lowest restriction before G which has no violence, gore or anything offensive


I just downloaded it too.

[dogfooddi]

reform school girls

[Diello]

Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead) is one of my favourite films, period.

Hellcats was hilarious; it's a biker flick very definitely ensconced in B-movie territory.

I enjoyed Blacula.

I don't consider Asylum films to be pedigree exploitation (regardless of what Wikipedia says), but I like them as well.

[Kuppo Shakur]

You people support exploitation!?:scared:

[Proukunin]

haha exploitation in art not the working class. and it's just a name another is grindhouse.

[Magón]

I should change my major to Film/Directing. Then I can become the first Mexican Russ Meyer in the exploitation industry.

Oh how the people would riot. :lol:

[Os Cangaceiros]

There's actually a pretty big Mexican exploitation industry, IIRC. "Mexploitation". Weirdly enough it seems to be centered around low-budget films related to "Santo".

http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~dwilt/santowc.jpg

[Proukunin]

I majored in film but then decided to drop out 6 weeks later. I think I wanna go back though maybe later in life. Maybe when I turn 25 or something.

But really I would love to film a movie someday