Sentences with phrase «exploitation flick»

The film makes fun of those 1970s style exploitation flicks that were more just excuses to attach action pieces.

Underneath the pretty prestige of the Australian New Wave, there was a mass of exploitation flicks rife with gore and nudity.

So instead, I'll start with the dumbest movie I've seen at TIFF so far, a nasty Z - grade exploitation flick by Ryûhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train) called Downrange (Grade: C), in which a bunch of teen - soap - looking nobodies squat behind a bullet - riddled Ford Expedition on some curve of California road while a faceless sniper in a ghillie suit takes shots at them from a nearby oak tree.

The tango between Stuntman Mike's juiced - up black Charger and the white, Vanishing Point Dodge Challenger of his quarry (which includes the incomparable stuntwoman Zoe Bell) plays out like the rape / revenge foundation for countless exploitation flicks in the vocabulary of film - familiar backroads, with muscle cars the ram and receptacle.

So instead, I'll start with the dumbest movie I've seen at TIFF so far, a nasty Z - grade exploitation flick by Ryûhei...

And the PG - 13 rating dictates that her rampage will be nowhere near the bloody purge demanded by a low - grade exploitation flick like this.

His career thus far both in front and behind the camera has been diverse to say the least from exploitation flicks shot for almost nothing like the Amateur Porn Star Killer series, to a film more considered and meaningful (and genuinely haunting) like My Name Is «A» By Anonymous, and scoring a lead role in an Albert Pyun one take film called The Interrogation of Cheryl Cooper.

In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on «Little Red Riding Hood,» the uneducated daughter of a drug - addicted prostitute flees the foster - care system in search of her long - lost grandmother but meets up instead with a serial killer.

She then joined a sizable cast of twentysomething actors (including Patty McCormick, Richard Dreyfuss and Kevin Coughlin) in the Sam Katzman - produced exploitation flick The Young Runaways (1968).

Downloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art - house actors and psychobabble.

This not only describes Michael Apted's Enough, but also Meir Zarchi's infamous exploitation flick I Spit on Your Grave, the main difference between the two being that Enough tries very hard to hide the fact that it's an ugly bit of repugnant vigilantism masquerading as a feminist uplift drama.

«The Fast and the Furious» (2001) 52 percent: Sleek and shiny on the surface, this film recalls those cheesy teenage exploitation flicks of the 1950s — although Diesel gives the film a charismatic center.

Add to that a partnership with Nicolas Winding Refn, which has gifted us two restored classics, including low - budget exploitation flick The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds and 1967's Hot Thrills and Warm Chills.

The first was a 1965 exploitation flick Satan's Bed.

Demme never tries to pretend its anything more than what it seems — a trashy, energetic exploitation flick for the drive - in circuit — so there are no «messages» to weigh down the fast and furious action, merely a mean sense of satire and creative flourishes around the edges (like warden Barbara Steele's stiletto heel and fish net stocking prison lecture turned cabaret performance!).

You're not going to get a great deal of bang for your buck here, but there is a quaint and quirky charm that permeates Mean Dog Blues that makes it an easy movie to watch, very much in the vein of a well - made exploitation flick.

I intend neither sarcasm nor racism — and neither does Craig Brewer, who follows his affable if overrated Hustle & Flow with a hardcore exploitation flick that also happens to be the most impassioned spiritual parable in recent memory.

The film is set during the post-production of a fictional, third - tier exploitation flick, the kind of revenge - of - the - witch potboiler Lucio Fulci could have knocked out during his prolific heyday.

Quentin Tarantino quipped that his Kill Bill movies gave us one film for the price of two, but Grindhouse, a fan - boy evocation of»70s exploitation flicks, is two for the price of one.

A social horror with a lot on its mind, one that works as a purely popcorn exploitation flick but is rife with deep - seated meaning, Get Out is a beefy conscience tickler that ticks all the boxes and then some and will deservedly remain in the best of modern horror conversation for years to come.

Consequently, it's just a wannabe exploitation flick bereft of brains and balls.

She did appear in Gothic & Lolita Psycho, a wild exploitation flick from Go Ohara, who also directed the big screen version of hack - and - slash game Onechanbara.

The idea of a Lost Highway for a post-UFC world is an appealing proposition, at least in cinephilic circles where high - art and exploitation flicks freely intermingle.

Grindhouses were cheap cinemas in the 1970s which showed B - rate exploitation flicks all day long — usually in the form of double bills.

The Buzz: Looks like Tarantino and Rodriguez on amphetamines; in other words, it's absurdly over-the-top, but assembled with visible affection for the old exploitation flicks the directors used for inspiration.

The trailer takes a wholly different direction to the previous title's grind house exploitation flicks aesthetic looking like a return to its more restrained and realistic roots.

No other filmmaker can channel the sophistication of Jean - Luc Godard and the violence of John Woo through the veil of a 1970s exploitation flick — much less attempt to in a coherent state of mind.

Larger question: Why are we getting all of these arthouse versions of exploitation flicks?

Although the title invokes the memory of the 1960s Django movies, its Deep South setting and sub-plot regarding Mandingo fighting bring to mind the film Mandingo and the exploitation flicks that followed in its wake.

Grau provides a brief, optional introduction to the picture, hoping it causes us «extreme suffering» and putting his finger, by that statement, on the exact reason a lot of us are drawn to exploitation flicks.

Rather than coming off sour or mean - spirited (as some exploitation flicks do), «Drive Angry» runs the red light into campy laughs.

If anything, «Death Proof» unintentionally makes the case for exploitation flicks» niche appeal with its cardboard characters and lurid set pieces.

She writes about her relationships with rocker Marilyn Manson and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez — the latter ending when he cast her in the exploitation flick «Planet Terror,» which he then sold to The Monster's distribution company.

With The Strangers, first - time director Bryan Bertino crafted a work that was at once deeply indebted to exploitation flicks of the 1970s and harrowingly current.

Quentin Tarantino doesn't take any risks with Django Unchained, the newest in his particular brand of exploitation flicks — yet another revenge narrative peppered with an immaculately crafted visual style and anachronistic soundtrack.

Despite being dismissed by some critics at the time of its release for being merely an exploitation flick, The Exorcist would garner 10 Academy Award nominations, unheard of for a horror film up to that point, and would go on to become a cultural phenomenon only rivaled by The Silence of the Lambs for the genre.

(Proving that one can argue the merits of Quentin Tarnatino's films, but not his encyclopedic knowledge of exploitation flicks.)

Egoyan leans into the absurdity, treating the material more like an exploitation flick than the prestige drama that Plummer's magisterial presence in the lead role would suggest.