(Proving that one can argue the merits of Quentin Tarnatino's films, but not his encyclopedic knowledge
of exploitation flicks.)
Larger question: Why are we getting all of these arthouse versions
of exploitation flicks?
Underneath the pretty prestige of the Australian New Wave, there was a mass
of exploitation flicks rife with gore and nudity.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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).
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.
A living, breathing celluloid invasion
flick led by a breathless ensemble
of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter
of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk
exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast
of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.
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.
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.
While this eagerly - anticipated cautionary tale
of Orwellian dimensions does address a litany
of timely themes ranging from greed to loyalty to
exploitation to corruption, it nevertheless remains, at heart, a high attrition - rate, splatter
flick designed to satiate the bloodlust
of kids weaned on gory computer games.
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.
The picture is akin to non-alcoholic beer and decaffeinated coffee — a thrill-less thriller, slash-less slasher
flick, and nudity-less German
exploitation film (that at least keeps its water sports), the worst thing about The Pool is the amazing breadth
of its banality.
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.
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.
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.
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.