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 ~What is an exploitation film?~ Exploitation films are movies that feature explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. The term is slightly broad and encapsulates a wide variety of sub-genres including but not limited to: - 1930s and 1940s cautionary films - Biker films - Blaxploitation - Brucesploitation - Cannibal films - Canuxploitation - Carsploitation - Chambara films - Giallo films - Mockbusters - Mondo films - Monster movies - Nazisploitation - Nudist films - Ozploitation - Rape and revenge films - Redsploitation - Sexploitation - Slasher films - Spacesploitation - Spaghetti westerns - Splatter films - Women in prison films For short descriptions of what each of these sub-genres are, visit this handy Wikipedia article ~Those all sound cool! How can I go about finding these movies?~ Finding some exploitation movies can be challenging. Due to a lot of contributing factors a lot of them have never made it past VHS, if ever released for home viewing at all. There is such a high volume of these movies because of their low budget. I would recommend checking the following resources YouTube - A surprising amount of films have made it on to YouTube because they were not released by major motion picture distributors and therefore are not immediately detectable by YouTube's copyright infringement software. Try searching for things like "Grindhouse Trailers" and see what pops up. Sit through a few trailers and see what peeks your interest. Part of the allure of Grindhouse films are their trailers! GCDb - The IMDb of Grindhouse cinema. Sorted by year, genre, director, or any other number of variables. This database includes reviews of mostly every film in it as well as trailer links, poster images, "Also Known As" titles, taglines, and other various information. Exploitation.tv - The "Netflix" streaming service of the exploitation cinema world. $7 a month for tons of streamable content. Rare Cult Cinema - A nice website with lots of reviews worth reading. Not always updated as often as it should be, but there is enough content you can click around and find something you haven't seen before. Daily Grindhouse - Updated daily with tons of grindhouse goodness. They have a podcast as well as interviews, reviews, and articles. A good source for modern exploitation news and updates. eBay - For those of you nerds who like owning rare and hard to find movies in hard copy eBay is hard to beat. Search the title of the film you are looking for and there is a high chance someone is selling a VHS/DVD/Bluray of it. There are also stores that cater to these types of movies and sell collectibles and movie posters to decorate your home with so everyone knows you are a loving weirdo. GoreStoreNY has some dope stuff. The Cinema Snob - A "snooty film critic" reviews some of the weirdest exploitation films of all time. And a lot of other drek. Women In Prison Films (WIPfilms) - I won't be linking this website, but you can likely find it on your own. It is a little too close to  for me to feel comfortable linking in the OP but if a mod gives me permission then I will put it in. Venture here at your own peril. Also, try to ignore a lot of the random porn they post! It is not exclusively Women In Prison genre films, it's got a lengthy genre list of most types of exploitation. Good for checking out screenshots and reading synopsis of movies.Oldies [Classic Exploitation Movies] - A place to pick up cheap DVDs of your favorite exploitation movies. Alibris - Find books about Grindhouse/Exploitation cinema. I would recommend seeing if your library has copies of these books. Libraries are free and dying, you should support your local library. There's a very good chance your library has some of these on some sort of online web portal. ~Grindhouse Distributors List~ These companies have redistributed Grindhouse/Exploitation releases on DVD/Bluray. You can buy directly from them as a source, find out what movies have a DVD/Bluray release, discover new movies directly from them, and check out trailers they have on their websites. Something Weird Blue Underground Severin Grindhouse Releasing Cult Epics Click HERE for a more in-depth post about what kind of material each company releases. Courtesy of K. Waste. ~I'm new to this! What are some movies worth checking out?~ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3981DoINw Synopsis: En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blood Feast (1963) IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056875/  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxdl1AB9NA Synopsis: Egyptian caterer busies himself collecting body parts from young maidens in order to bring Ishtar, an ancient goddess of good and evil back to life. When he has prepared enough parts for the ceremony, he hypnotizes a woman giving an engagement party for her daughter, at which he plans to perform the ancient rites of summons, using the daughter as his final sacrifice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Drink Your Blood (1970) IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067229/  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-vdVgiytEo Synopsis: A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. They rape a local girl and her grandpa goes after them. He fails and is given LSD. This bothers his grandson and he gets back at the hippies by feeding them meat pies infected with blood from a rabid dog. They turn into crazed lunatics and begin killing and/or infecting everything in their path. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072285/  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0BIJZQWuc Synopsis: Frigga lives with her parents on their farm. Unable to speak after being horrifically raped by an elderly man when she was young, her parents spend the majority of their money on speech therapy classes for their daughter in the hope that one day, she will speak again. One day, Frigga misses the bus to get to her speech therapy class. She accepts a ride off a suave looking gentlemen named Tony who pulls up beside her. Once they are in town, he takes her for a meal. Afterwards, he takes Frigga back to what appears to be his bachelor pad. He gives her wine that has probably been drugged, as she passes out after drinking it. The man then takes no time in bringing a crooked doctor in to get her fixed on high class heroin. After announcing to Frigga that she is now dependent on heroin and cannot last more than 48 hours without it, she must work as a prostitute for him. Frigga, obviously not thrilled by this news, attempts escape twice, but to no avail. On getting her very first client, she reacts by scratching down his face. Tony punishes her for this by removing an eye (the infamous supposed cadaver eye scene). Having found out that Tony sent a fake letter to her parents announcing in it that she hates her parents, Frigga makes her way home one Monday (her day off) only to discover that they have both apparently suicided from the lost of their only daughter. After this and the death of her friend and fellow prostitute Sally, Frigga seeks revenge on those who have wronged her, namely Tony and her clients. She spends her Mondays learning martial arts, buggy driving and shooting in order to suitably equip herself to take on the villians in her life. One of the blueprints as to why Tarantino's Kill Bill films exist, this film is an essential in the femme fatale revenge genre. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maniac (1980) IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/  Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btGEvamuaA4 Synopsis: Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe? ~Are there documentaries about these cool rear end movies?~ Yes. Check out these documentaries to learn some cool stuff! Documentaries about these films are also a great resource for finding new things to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndtsMdk2fc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oe7OWLhMgc HUGE rear end LIST OF DOCUMENTARIES ON EXPLOITATION So, let's talk about exploitation stuff. Please remember to use  tags as needed (which may be often when talking about these films)
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Cool thread, Vinegar Syndrome has exploitation.tv which is a streaming service for this stuff specifically.
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Jun 20, 2016 03:03
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Hat Thoughts posted:Cool thread, Vinegar Syndrome has exploitation.tv which is a streaming service for this stuff specifically. Thank you! This is a wonderful service. Updated into the OP 
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Jun 20, 2016 16:14
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hello did someone say exploitation movies???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_wMsfAXY0 some handsome gent uploaded this a while back
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Jun 20, 2016 16:31
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It's funny you should post that. I actually just watched Mr. No Legs two weeks ago on a goon recommendation! In fact I was going to write an entire review about it, and even posted a thing about it on the Goon Facebook group. It was loving glorious. Top tier schlock. After 8 minutes I declared it "the best movie ever made". Granted, by the end I felt a little differently. That first scene where he blasts the dealers a few minutes in is loving gold. I recommend anyone looking for a movie to watch with friends check that out. It's not entirely graphic with gore or sex. It's one of the cool "freak" exploitation films out there. If you are looking for any others of a similar ilk check out Freaks (1932). Freaks is the basic premise that American Horror Story: Freak Show is based off of (do not watch AHS it is very bad). The end of that movie is genuinely disturbing. It also gave us the chant "Gobble Gobble! One of us!", or sometimes parodied as just chanting "One of us!". Edit: oops, here's a trailer for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVXTKkjsxA The full movie is on YouTube, but the quality isn't quite up to par and it appears as if a short bit at the very beginning got cut off. Windows 98 fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 17:09
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The best story about Freaks is that F. Scott Fitzgerald was working as a screenwriter at MGM during the production. One night, showing up to work hungover as a bastard, he sees one of the extras walking around and immediately pukes.
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Jun 23, 2016 02:50
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Explotation.tv is a must if you're into this sort of cinematic trash (like me). I recommend Turkey Shoot and Terminal Island.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:08
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Goddamn I feel so loving old when I read "Where to find these movies" and the first link was YouTube because I remember having to hit up Usenet dudes to trade VHS tapes of old KTMA Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes (3 to a single tape in EP mode) for a third generation copy of the fully uncut Braindead version of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive converted from PAL to NTSC.
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Jun 23, 2016 05:13
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caligulamprey posted:Goddamn I feel so loving old when I read "Where to find these movies" and the first link was YouTube because I remember having to hit up Usenet dudes to trade VHS tapes of old KTMA Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes (3 to a single tape in EP mode) for a third generation copy of the fully uncut Braindead version of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive converted from PAL to NTSC. YouTube is still the best video streaming service available, at least until FilmStruck launches.
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In your list of exploitation genres you forgot my favorite: Brucesploitation. Brucesploitation is when a film capitalizes off of Bruce Lee's death, with examples such as Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave, Exit the Dragon-Enter the Tiger, and my personal favorite, The Clones of Bruce Lee. Also, look up the weird relationship Colonel Sanders had with exploitation films. It's loving hilarious. edit: You can also find a bunch of stuff over at https://www.thecinemasnob.com where "a snooty film critic" reviews some of the weirdest exploitation films of all time. And a lot of other drek.
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Jun 24, 2016 05:25
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One of my best friends is a filmmaker, and made this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1501658/ and its sequel. He's been around to all kinds of horror film festivals with it, and has been interviewed on lots of podcasts and blogs.
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Jun 24, 2016 10:01
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Is early John Waters stuff considered exploitation cinema or is there a better term for it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQB4AHpNVY Stuff like Mondo Trasho or Multiple Maniacs? MM used to be on Youtube and I watched it one night to see what this John Waters character was all about. It was a very strange movie that made me feel titillated and disgusted at the same time, which is something I associate strongly with grindhouse/exploitation films.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:In your list of exploitation genres you forgot my favorite: Brucesploitation. Brucesploitation is when a film capitalizes off of Bruce Lee's death, with examples such as Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave, Exit the Dragon-Enter the Tiger, and my personal favorite, The Clones of Bruce Lee. Editted into the OP for you  evobatman posted:One of my best friends is a filmmaker, and made this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1501658/ and its sequel. He's been around to all kinds of horror film festivals with it, and has been interviewed on lots of podcasts and blogs. Awesome! I have seen your friend's movie! It's like a Norwegian "I Spit On Your Grave". I won't spoil too much but for anyone who is interested this happens and that's all you should need to sell you on it.
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Jun 24, 2016 12:57
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Anal Surgery posted:Is early John Waters stuff considered exploitation cinema or is there a better term for it? I feel like John Waters is the kind of guy who would prefer that you call those exploitation films.
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Jun 24, 2016 14:33
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Anal Surgery posted:Is early John Waters stuff considered exploitation cinema or is there a better term for it? I mean, I don't know what I'd even call them, but I definitely wouldn't call them Exploitation/Camp. EDIT: I kind of categorize Nicolas Winding Refn under the same banner as John Waters. Absolute trash as viewed through the eye of fine art. caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 15:51
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I think the official label for Waters' pre-Polyester stuff is "Trash Film."
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Jun 24, 2016 17:08
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Cannibal Holocaust was a lot better than I expected it to be.
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Jun 24, 2016 17:18
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Cannibal Holocaust was a lot better than I expected it to be. 1980 was Deodato's peak year. See, also: The House on the Edge of the Park
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Jun 24, 2016 17:24
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K. Waste posted:1980 was Deodato's peak year. See, also: The House on the Edge of the Park Deodato also had a pretty high bar for best film title: 
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InfiniteZero posted:Deodato also had a pretty high bar for best film title: That's a great title to a movie I've never seen. Meanwhile, The House on the Edge of the Park actually had a copy-error on its international trailers. So grown adults in movie theaters saw trailers for some weird poo poo called The House of the Park on the Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V7AqahaNq4 Live Like a Cop is on YT in 360p at any rate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBfG-epmPls
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Yeah, poliziotteschi (*) are interesting exploitation films. My favourite is probably Rome: Armed to the Teeth, starring Maurizio Merli, who was rocking an OG Ron Burgundy look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusi7WWRYWg The violence in the films definitely puts them in the exploitation category: (this time from VIOLENT ROME, also starring Merli - he made a LOT of these films) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQmNgFPCaw I think they're a criminally overlooked subgenre of exploitation film, at least outside of Italy. (*) Italian police drama films if anybody wasn't sure
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InfiniteZero posted:Deodato also had a pretty high bar for best film title: Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973) is a pretty good film name   Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suF3zuChnCw Full Movie YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHsiPUdS68&t=727s I watched it last night. It was overwhelmingly bland for a movie that has such a badass name. If you enjoy occult schlock it will be your thing but otherwise probably not worth the watch. It was short, clocking in at just over an hour. But an hour you could probably save yourself.
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Windows 98 posted:I watched it last night. It was overwhelmingly bland for a movie that has such a badass name.
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Jun 25, 2016 03:21
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My regular group of filmhead friends and I have been running through a lot of Italian crime flicks recently. Although a Cynthia Rothrock run seems to be brewing after Righting Wrongs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094374/?ref_=nm_knf_i3) blew away the room last week. The Cop in Blue Jeans is well worth 95 minutes of your time, doubly so as Jack Palance is the featured U.S star http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075260/ Love to post a trailer, but I'm at work.
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caligulamprey posted:Grindhouse cinema in a nutshell, everybody. 90% of movies is sifting through abhorrent poo poo to find the gems. That goes double for exploitation. Some of my personal gems: - Motor Psycho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVa4nLym1U - Devil's Angels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rddq7Rvmj1s - Psych-Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPetZKRQQ0 - The Savage Seven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6NALFztA0 - Smoke and Flesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXxP-ZvRU78 - Zeta One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BMMcyrpoTs - Linda and Abilene https://vimeo.com/60795320 - Hannie Caulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q0HkNR7EFA - Weed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1x827YtSJw - School of the Holy Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpRSiTQPsCs - Vigilante Force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGKB75qYG8 - The Pyjama Girl Case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SzQ9yqZJMk
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Cannibal Holocaust was a lot better than I expected it to be. See, the thing that kind of ruins Cannibal Holocaust for me is once you recognize the actor playing Dr. Monroe as the same guy who played Mr. Greenfield from Debbie Does Dallas...I dunno, I have trouble taking an actor seriously when I've seen him pork a coked-out porn actress.
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Jun 25, 2016 06:02
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Ensign_Ricky posted:See, the thing that kind of ruins Cannibal Holocaust for me is once you recognize the actor playing Dr. Monroe as the same guy who played Mr. Greenfield from Debbie Does Dallas...I dunno, I have trouble taking an actor seriously when I've seen him pork a coked-out porn actress. I wouldn't say you're supposed to take Monroe seriously. He gets a bunch of platitudes in, but ultimately he's still in favor of destroying the film, ensuring that nobody but he and the TV execs will ever know just how depraved the filmmakers were.
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Jun 25, 2016 13:12
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Also, look up the weird relationship Colonel Sanders had with exploitation films. It's loving hilarious. I just did this and, yeah, he cameo'd in a pile of exploitation films to promote KFC in exchange for free catering.
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Jun 26, 2016 18:37
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Justin Godscock posted:I just did this and, yeah, he cameo'd in a pile of exploitation films to promote KFC in exchange for free catering. I never knew that. That owns.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:See, the thing that kind of ruins Cannibal Holocaust for me is once you recognize the actor playing Dr. Monroe as the same guy who played Mr. Greenfield from Debbie Does Dallas...I dunno, I have trouble taking an actor seriously when I've seen him pork a coked-out porn actress. Well now you ruined Debbie Does Dallas for me, thanks!
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Deodato was all over the place in the best way possible. I love that after doing two flicks as raw as Cannibal Holocaust and Die Like A Man he did Raiders of Atlantis which is like basically a GI Joe movie and some of the goofiest/amazing stuff ever. It's a great introduction film for any friends wondering how a movie can technically be badly made but still bad rad as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ0m-idDCLg The tall black guy co-starring with Chris Connelly, Tony King? He's the best thing about the movie, the reason why is because he's playing the same character that he plays in the Antonio Margheriti Vietman trilogy, Tiger Joe and Hunter of the Apocalypse, and Tornado. He's basically the most effective and charismatic person in the flick and I love the idea that there's a film connection of this one character going from war zones to ***RAIDING ATLANTIS*** like it's all in a day's work, saving Chris Connelly's rear end multiple times and so on. But anyway the film opens up with him mentioning how his name is Mohammed now that he's converted. So it's a timely flick as Hollywood whines now about how people want representation somehow 80s ITALIAN GRINDHOUSE CINEMA gave us a non-stop action flick where a black Muslim guy ends up being the leader of the group, gets all the best lines, gets to avenge a fallen friend, and gets to throw like 25 Molotov cocktails at fools while screaming "THIS ONE'S FOR BROOKLYN!" There's a part where ancient Atlantean technology immobilizes our heroes and both Connelly and King are frozen in place, stunned. Connelly plays it with confusion, but King PIVOTS, LEANS OVER TO HIM, screams "WE'RE IMMOBILIZED WE CAN'T MOVE!" and then goes back to his original position. Basically this movie is cool and fun. The entire movie is on Youtube but if you want slightly better quality this compilation is awesome: https://www.amazon.com/Sci-Fi-Invasion-Creeping-Galaxina-Slipstream/dp/B004ZJ9VXY/ ***DON'T GET THIS MOVIE VIA ANY OTHER COMPILATION*** for some reason a cut that could almost be PG is used for all of the other compilations it's on while flicks are unedited on the one I posted here and on Youtube. Ironically the compilations that have Grindhouse in their name have heavily edited version so of this, Stryker, etc. That sci-fi compilation I linked to though, look at the list on that, it's an absolute gold mine. caligulamprey posted:Goddamn I feel so loving old when I read "Where to find these movies" and the first link was YouTube because I remember having to hit up Usenet dudes to trade VHS tapes of old KTMA Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes (3 to a single tape in EP mode) for a third generation copy of the fully uncut Braindead version of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive converted from PAL to NTSC. There's an amazing fan edit of this film that includes all of the footage from the original New Zealand release with its color matched to the long out of print and expensive 97 minute blu-ray release. A must see. I really hate that this movie is no longer in circulation in the US (is it even in print in any other region?).
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Here's a quote from Hershell Gordon Lewis about the KFC thing because I started looking it up after reading this threadquote:Yeah, he played Colonel Sanders. Its all part of low budget filmmaking. We would shot a scene in a restaurant in exchange for that restaurant supplying food for the cast and crew. Now, those who know me well know that Im a fried chicken fanatic. So whenever we could shoot in a fried chicken location, we did. So I contacted the people at Kentucky Fried Chicken to see if they wanted to make that swap. Well, they accepted with such alacrity I regret not having asked them for money! Three days before we shot that scene with Colonel Sanders, which was shot in a Fried Chicken place in Well Met, a suburb of Chicago. They wrote in and asked if I could write a part for Colonel Sanders. And I said, œWell, its kinda difficult because this is about a rock band and doesnt quite fit Colonel Sanders image. And they said, œWell, figure something for him to do. Well, I wasnt sure if they were going to have the man or some stand-in or what, I didnt know. When I got there, he was there! He was already made up by his own make-up man! He had one of these aggressively jolly personalities that have always irritated me but that, again, is a personal prejudice. We arranged for him to serve the fried chicken to the band that was playing on the lot; a totally contrived scene. But on the other hand, we had fried chicken for the entire shoot, so it was all-worthwhile. And I think I gave him one line to say. He took it very seriously. We didnt. For us it was a throw away, and we shot the rehearsal, which thoroughly enraged him because when he said, œHow many more takes are we going to do? I said, œWe got it! And he insisted that we shot one, with the camera not running, just to satisfy his ego. You like that? But we gave him a screen credit, in fact it showed his logo, not his name, just the thing with the little white beard, and opposite that the role he played €œ himself.
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Neo Rasa posted:The entire movie is on Youtube but if you want slightly better quality this compilation is awesome: Jesus, someone like Blue Underground or Grindhouse Releasing shoulda gotten around to doing a higher quality, uncut release of Raiders so I don't actually have to consider getting one of those 50-100 movie box sets. Never again. Speaking of which, I don't think a thread like this is complete O.P. without at least a cursory rundown of great 'alternative DVD' companies which each in their own way basically function as Criterion Collection and Kino Lorber for exploitation cinema. Something Weird Named after the Herschell Gordon Lewis movie, this is a great stop classic exploitation of all kind, although, as their namesake should make apparent, they're partial to the ol' school nudie-cuties, sexploitation, roughies, etc. They've also got an extensive catalog of 'paracinema': Old educational reels, ethnographic shock docs, industrial films, strip teases and burlesque, a nice little archive of the cultural underbelly. They seem to be moving much more of their content to digital download, but they still have a stupendous catalog of weird poo poo they publish through Image Entertainment (who are pretty good with the old weird stuff in their own right). A lot of these DVDs are also basically goodie-packs of stuff. For instance, the double-feature of The Acid Eaters / Weed (former is bad, latter is good) includes some additional LSD scare films just in case the main event wasn't enough. Good poo poo. And, seriously, watch Weed (1972), a counter-cultural documentary by pornographer Alex de Renzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1x827YtSJw Blue Underground Great library of everything you could want from the late-'60s to '80s, especially in the way of Italian exploitation: giallo, spaghetti western, poliziotteschi, all good stuff, plus more erotica, horror, and sci-fi. Particular recommendations: The Pyjama Girl Case and God Told Me To. Severin Severin gets a little more out-there in terms of the Shout! Factory direction. Like, they'll release the motorcycle horror movie Psychomania and Alejandro Jodorowsky's late great horror-epic Santa Sangre. Lot of cannibal and zombie stuff, too. One thing I really should check out from them is The Beast in Space, the pornographic pseudo-sequel to Walerian Borowczyk's masterpiece The Beast, sharing only its star Sirpa Lane. Featuring - monster and robot loving. Apparently it's all on YT if you wanna take the dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV5fNRPUBos Grindhouse Releasing Not a huge catalog, but a solid one: An American Hippie in Israel, Cannibal Holocaust, and I Drink Your Blood, and The Big Gundown are all classics. Seriously, watch I Drink Your Blood, it's so loving good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-vdVgiytEo Cult Epics This is where we seriously get into some of the really gritty or downright pornographic '80s stuff, including apparently a roll-out of Jorg Buttgereit's films. I've only seen Nekromantik and Der Todesking, and while I love them both dearly, they are def not for the weak of heart. This is where we go all the way to the fringe of exploitation into 'endurance film' territory. But like Severin, they have a really good cross-section of obscure underground and extreme cinema you can't get anywhere else. In a Glass Cage is by no means exploitation, but it is a fantastic movie which turns the Nazisploitation genre on its head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09AIbYPWLQ It's not all that extreme - Perhaps you just want a nunsploitation double feature of Behind Convent Walls and School of the Holy Beast? Or maybe you wanna look in on both the early and later works of the hallowed Tinto Brass? I know y'all can probably dish out some others so get on it.
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I know this is the right thread to ask. I've always liked the video for the Muse song "Knights of Cydonia," and I figured it was a homage to some kind of trashy Euro sci-fi/spaghetti western hybrid, maybe something made in the early '80s. Do I even have the time frame right? Is it a homage or parody of any specific film or filmmaker's style? Did anything like it ever show up on MST3K? http://youtu.be/Q3Yc3HhSl1Q
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Waitaminute? Severin Films has done things other than Birdemics 1 & 2??? (Also seriously, can we hurry up and get a Birdemic 3 already?)
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Neo Rasa posted:Deodato was all over the place in the best way possible. I love that after doing two flicks as raw as Cannibal Holocaust and Die Like A Man he did Raiders of Atlantis which is like basically a GI Joe movie and some of the goofiest/amazing stuff ever. It's a great introduction film for any friends wondering how a movie can technically be badly made but still bad rad as hell. Can't recommend this enough. In fact, I watched the night before after trying to get Fury Road blu-ray to play on my laptop and failing miserably (might have to buy a blu-ray player or something), and it was a suitable replacement. I was going to post that same trailer myself with all the Deodato talk, but you did it way better. Tony King is definitely the best guy in it, with Connelly joshing him about being born again and that "he'll always be Wash to him", but I also love Stefano Mingardo a.k.a. Mike Miller showing up midway through the movie as another mercenary that happens to be in the area. Actually, it has a pretty good cast that's well used, like Ivan Rassimov's Bill Cook and George Hilton's Sanders, both old spaghetti western and eurocrime actors. I even like Bruce Baron, an experienced actor from the Godfrey Ho movies, as the villain. Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I know this is the right thread to ask. I've always liked the video for the Muse song "Knights of Cydonia," and I figured it was a homage to some kind of trashy Euro sci-fi/spaghetti western hybrid, maybe something made in the early '80s. Do I even have the time frame right? Is it a homage or parody of any specific film or filmmaker's style? Did anything like it ever show up on MST3K? That video is pretty dead on. Joseph Kahn (of Torque fame) shot some of this Red Rock in the U.S. and most of it in Romania, which happened to have a few spaghetti westerns shot there, and edited it to where it supposedly the same place, which is what a lot of spaghetti westerns did, shooting mostly in deserts in Spain, Italy or eastern Europe but a few days of filming in American southwest for establishing shots to make it "convincing". There's other little homages as well, like the use of the Edison Giocattoli toy guns as future weapons and the robot that's straight out of Starcrash. It's very Enzo Castellari in places: that slow-motion martial arts fight at the beginning is something you'd see in a lot of his films like Escape From The Bronx. Speaking of which, the shot in hotel room where you see the camera crew is something that happens in Escape From The Bronx, where you catch a glimpse of the film crew in a corner in a scene were there's a flamethrower stunt inside an enclosed area. You can see what I'm talking about here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKH5_THqo5I
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Hat Thoughts posted:Here's a quote from Hershell Gordon Lewis about the KFC thing because I started looking it up after reading this thread That is seriously so drat cool.
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K. Waste posted:
Thanks! Added to the OP
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That is seriously so drat cool. Here's about 99% of the scenes he's in in the HG Lewis film, Blast-Off Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3iS5Lq9Z_4 All it's missing is a scene where he breaks the 4th wall and winks at the camera. And his other major exploitation film appearance was in a film alternately titled The Fakers, Hell's Bloody Devils, or Operation M, which is a combination of both the bikersploitation as well as Nazisploitation subgenres! And the hero commits statutory rape. Albeit she's "willing" but still, your hero should not make me think of Roman Polanski unless he actually is Polanski. Oh, and it has John Carradine as "Pet Shop Owner".
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I just want to throw in my recommendation for this collection. It's probably some of the best $5 I've ever spent. Some more recommendations from it, not all of them are exploitation films, but they're all wonderful trash: Hundra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcNR2DUhwI A Conan style sword and sandles flick with a hyper feminist message. One of my favorite movies, simply because I've never seen anything quite like it. The quality in this collection is poor but watchable, and is obviously compiled from different sources since the aspect ratio keeps changing. No, I don't know why it's in a sci-fi collection. Stars Laurene Landon being her usual bad rear end self. Welcome to Blood City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Cc5yIghC8 A group of people find themselves in a wild west type prison colony with some Matrix style elements. Robo Vampire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgqRqjMLyA8 I don't even loving know. R.O.T.O.R.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R54l28AMW8 A hilariously bad film about a killer Robocop, and some creative cursing. If you're a RLM or Rifftrax fan you probably already know all about it. Not in the collection, but I want to recommend the movie credited with creating Blaxploitation Uptight. I can't seem to find a trailer for it, but it's set against the backdrop of MLK Jr.'s assassination with some amazing footage of his funeral march you probably won't see anywhere else. A member of a radical black power group and fall down drunk rats out his best friend and has crisis of self in the ensuing aftermath. Lots of stage actors in it and it shows as they gnaw the scenery right down to the bone. Really great watch. And if you like Raiders of Atlantis you'll also probably like The New Barbarians. An amazingly cheesy Italian Mad Max knock off with plenty of exploding heads and Fred Williamson as Hawkeye. And a word of warning avoid basically anything from Po Boy Productions. It's all completely unwatchable garbage. Sorry Fred Williamson, I still like your other movies. EDIT: hosed up the name of the The New Barbarians. It's also called Warriors of the Wasteland, apparently. girth brooks part 2 fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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