Top 10 Exploitation Films
I've seen hundreds. And I'm happily scarred. But these movies are just WRONG.
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- DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga BaclanovaA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.The absolute ORIGINAL exploitation classic. Complete with circus freaks, pinheads, torso man, the bearded lady and more. And there is a huge moral to the story, as in most exploitation films.
- DirectorRobert A. EndelsonStarsRobert JuddCatherine PeppersLela SmallA mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There are a few nasty scenes where the minister's family is being repeatedly terrorized by the thugs. In the end the minister turns the tables on the 3 convicts and gives them their just desserts.Without a doubt THE racial exploitation movie to see. Video nasty banned the world over. Will make you uncomfortable. Get it asap and prepare to be shocked.
- DirectorNico MastorakisStarsBob BehlingJane LyleJessica DublinA couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.I don't even know what to say here. This film is nasty, depraved and shocking. And the ending has to be experienced to be believed. Nearly impossible to find, but somehow, it is on my dvd shelf. You know you have problems when...
- DirectorCesare CanevariStarsAdriano MicantoniDaniela PoggiMaristella GrecoA Jewish woman who survived the horrors of a concentration camp revisits the ruins of the camp, along with a former SS officer, and recollects the humiliation, the torture, and the constant abuse she went through.Best Nazi-sploitation flick ever. If you're wondering what that means, just stop reading right now and do not watch this movie. You'll be very, very, very disturbed.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsLea LanderGeorge EastmanRiccardo CucciollaFollowing a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.Not purely an exploitation film, but definitely has several scenes that have the feel, so I'm going to include it. Bava proves, once again, that he was an originator. This movie is enthralling all the way through and the ending is a shock. Sick and twisted, but not unwatchable.
- DirectorGiulio BerrutiStarsAnita EkbergAlida ValliMassimo SeratoLegendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder.With a title like "Killer Nun," you know it's gonna be nunsploitation. For 1979, this is one hell of a depraved movie.
- DirectorRoberta FindlayStarsJoe LynnMina BernWalter BryantA drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.Twisted story of a Bronx tenement and its residents who are being harassed by a gang of thugs. Not something you want to watch with your girlfriend.
- DirectorMeir ZarchiStarsCamille KeatonEron TaborRichard PaceAn aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.Grueling, awful account of one woman's violation and her subsequent quest for revenge. Really hard to watch.
- DirectorMichael ArmstrongAdrian HovenStarsHerbert LomUdo KierOlivera KatarinaIn 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.A very graphic account of the witch trials in medieval Europe. Twisting, turning ending and an opening theme that was clearly influential when Riz Ortlani did the score for "Cannibal Holocaust." German flick.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineDavid LocharyMary Vivian PearceNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".John Waters exploits a family of East Baltimore rednecks in the most distasteful fashion ever. Want some eggs? How bout some dog shit?