Retrospective thoughts about Cannibal Holocaust from someone who just watched it for the first time. There are exploitation films and then there are exploitation films. This one is from the latter category. It’s one of the notorious ones, those with a certain reputation. Not a “video nasty”, but a nasty, […]
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If you’re looking for the kind of horror movie that will gross you out completely, Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 Grindhouse shock masterpiece CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST will surely do it for you. Deodato was inspired to make this movie because of all the violence he was seeing on television at the time and […]
In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. Cautionary Films & Drugsploitation The earliest kinds of exploitation films were actually presented as educational movies about […]
In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. Blaxploitation In the early 1970s the Civil Rights Movement was raging and Hollywood began to focus on […]
In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. We’ll kick off things off with a colorful mix to help you fill up those cold Winter […]
The Blaxploitation era not only gave us some really fun and exciting genre cinema it produced some of the greatest pop music to come out of the 1970s. These supercool, superbad, superfunky sounds are exactly what we mean when we use the term FURIOUS With some help from our sister […]
For those of us who love B-movies and cult cinema the name William Castle (1914-1977) will conjure up thoughts of all kinds of creepy creatures and wild promotional campaigns that rivaled other famous film showmen of his day like Alfred Hitchcock. Castle may have been known primarily as the producer/director […]
Ever since starting this website three years ago, we’ve made it known that our love of movies ranges from the big budget Hollywood studio mainstream to the smaller kinds of B-pictures. It’s really always been about sharing the Furious Film Appreciation for us across the board without prejudice. For this […]
The history of Hobo With A Shotgun goes back to the release of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez‘s modern exploitation double feature Grindhouse which held a contest for filmmakers to try to make the best exploitation style trailer in cooperation with the Austin Texas SXSW festival. With it’s simple, ‘straight-to […]