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A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.
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- TriviaJohn Amero, Pam Grier, and Harry H. Novak were all approached to be interviewed in this documentary, but they all declined.
- ConnectionsFeatures Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
- SoundtracksThe Thieving Magpie Overture
composed by Gioachino Rossini
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Exploits of exploitation cinema
This is a terrific documentary for fans of exploitation cinema and B movies. The documentary charts the history of US exploitation films from the beginnings of cinema to the modern day.
It was Tarantino and Rodriguez that revitalised the term Grindhouse when they made their double feature but it took off in the 1960s with the change of mores and loosening of censorship laws.
It allowed filmmakers to exploit and challenge an area of cinema that was designed for discerning adults that like terror, sex, violence and buckets of blood.
The documentary is narrated by Robert Forster and interviews starts, directors and fans of the genre including Joe Dante, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Larry Cohen, William Lustig, Lewis Teague and others.
However it is not just talking heads, you have clips from grindhouse films and especially a good representation of clips from films of the 1960s and 70s.
It was Tarantino and Rodriguez that revitalised the term Grindhouse when they made their double feature but it took off in the 1960s with the change of mores and loosening of censorship laws.
It allowed filmmakers to exploit and challenge an area of cinema that was designed for discerning adults that like terror, sex, violence and buckets of blood.
The documentary is narrated by Robert Forster and interviews starts, directors and fans of the genre including Joe Dante, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Larry Cohen, William Lustig, Lewis Teague and others.
However it is not just talking heads, you have clips from grindhouse films and especially a good representation of clips from films of the 1960s and 70s.
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- $5,529
- Gross worldwide
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