The grindhouse end of the spectrum: cheap, lurid, and sometimes accidentally brilliant. Exploitation film reviews that take the genre on its own shameless terms.
ExploitationWilliam Marshall plays a tragic vampire prince with Shakespearean dignity in this landmark Black-led horror film. Is Blacula as silly as its title?
CheerleaderJack Hill's 1974 American exploitation film about a feminist journalism student who joins a college cheerleading squad to write an expose and finds genuin. The Swinging Cheerleaders is Jack Hill's 1974 American exploitation film depicting a feminist journalism student who…
Cult ClassicRocky Horror to Scott Pilgrim — twenty films the mainstream missed, ignored, or couldn't categorize, and the devoted audiences who found them anyway. What made each one a cult classic, and what writers can learn from films that knew exactly…
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