Often associated with the category of B-movies or with cult cinema as a whole, exploitation cinema consists of films that capitalize on controversial current events or taboo topics and exploit them ...

The exploitation genre is a broad category. It covers everything from cynical cash grabs made to capitalize on lucrative filmmaking trends to pictures that put sex and violence over substance. And ...

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, a self-described movie maniac who likes all genres, has a special fondness for exploitation flicks. “William Lustig changed my life. As a child, I saw the movie ‘Maniac,’ and it ...

Mostly this is when Bernhardt gets to go full deadpan, the actor wisely choosing to play the swordsman as a walking, talking ...

The week between Christmas and New Year can be notoriously sleepy, and when it comes to holiday horror, evil Santa imposters are a dime a dozen. So why not spice up your seasonal viewing with ...

Equal parts midnight movie, psychodrama and reality-tripping goof, “Leonor Will Never Die” counts as one of the year’s most wonderfully offbeat debuts. Filipino writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar ...

After retiring from porn and impressing audiences in The Girlfriend Experience and on HBO's Entourage, Sasha Grey is continuing her crossover into non-pornographic work by joining the cast of Frankie ...

“Machete” (2010) — What began as just another fake trailer in the movie “Grindhouse” has become its own hilarious, gory, gaudy, full-length exploitation flick that will take you right back to a 1970s ...

“TONIGHT!” roared the ad, “You are invited to a PILL PARTY. You will experience every jolt, every jar of a psychedelic circus… The Beatniks… Sickniks… and ...

The publicity campaign for Big Bad Wolves, a nasty little revenge thriller from Israeli filmmakers Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales, quotes Quentin Tarantino’s decree that it’s the “best film of ...

After Dark: Starring Olivia DeJonge as one unlucky babysitter, this seasonal home invasion from 2016 combines holiday magic with the winking cruelty of “Funny Games.” The week between Christmas and ...