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...Richard Corliss's piece "Sex! Violence! Trash!" on so-called exploitation movies of the past belongs in the third category because of its lack of focus and misinformation [CINEMA, July 7]. Corliss branded my father, Edgar G. Ulmer, "the vagabond king of grade-Z films." My father's films did not purvey either sex or violence; perhaps their budgets were sometimes trashy, though only by necessity. None of his films were exploitive in the sense used in the article, but all were exploitable--read marketable--by virtue of my father's creativity as a director. His movie Detour...
...Corliss implies grind-house films are all the rage today simply because they are ridiculous. Like they're cool because they're so awful. I don't think so. We do not love exploitation films because we want to relive a past decade of innocence. Exploitation filmmakers have proved that creative, classic and socially relevant films can be made on modest budgets. These movies hit close to home. We are in our houses, and there are nymphomaniac cannibalistic freaks waiting to feast. This is real! This is myth! BROOK KING Pittsburgh...