Let’s go over a few sub genres of exploitation films. You’ve got your zombie flicks, kung-fu crazies, cannibal movies, sexploitation, japsploitation, B-action films, disaster reels, naziploitaion, animals run amuck, and straight torture movies (OK, there’s tons more, but for the sake of this review, let’s just go with these shall we?). Next, take all of [...]

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Arriving a little over a f@#$ing year after the box office flop Grindhouse, Larry Bishop’s Hell Ride has the f@#$ing nerve to try and crash the homage party, with a clusterf@#$ of an end result. Desperately trying to be a f@#$ing exploitation film in the same vein as biker cult-favorites The Losers and The [...]

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Simon, King of the Witches is kind of like that friend that is so ridiculous that you keep him around just to see what stupid shenanigans he’ll try next.  The plot boils down to a warlock wants to use his powers to join the gods he worships so he can watch over the planet.  That’s [...]

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So, I decided I’d left Slaughter Hotel sitting on the shelf long enough and that it was time to check it out.  Just judging by the cover I figured what I was in for was blood letting, large knives, a glove wearing killer and some nudity.  I was close.  Make it some blood letting and [...]

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School of the Holy Beast, for me, is one of the greatest achievements in exploitation cinema. Not only did it have an amazingly over top revenge story, but it was shot in a way that Bava and Argento would be proud of. It’s a simple story told in an extraordinary manner. It [...]

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“Don’t be ashamed to scream – it helps to relieve the tension” is the tagline across the cover of my copy of The Black Scorpion. Now, we all know we’re not going to be screaming, going into a film with a monster’s face that looks like something from Where the Wild Things Are with [...]

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OK. Let’s just go through this plot as fast as possible. A busload of cheerleaders, on their way to some competition, is kidnapped and held hostage for some human rights movement, that really just wants a lot of money. Whoops. Now I have nothing else to right. Maybe. [...]

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Over the weeks and months to come, any readers here that don’t already know me will surely soon realize I have a real enthusiasm for Japanese cinema. This was probably instilled in me before I even realized it was happening, with everything from Nintendo and Sega, animation like Robotech, Voltron, and The Adventures of [...]

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