Word: exploitationism
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“Grindhouse” isn’t meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin...
Walking to a preview screening last week of Grindhouse, I got a whiff (fetid, of course) of the exploitation-movie past. The screening was on 12th Street in Manhattan's East Village, and my walk took me along 14th Street past a prime grind house, the Metropolitan Theatre - or rather...
But then, for me the grindhouse was not a place to see high-speed mayhem. Exploitation cinema was essentially sexploitation: great-looking women being naughty. The auteurs of this genre (Radley Metzger, Jose Benazeraf, Russ Meyer) could seduce an audience already panting for a striptease; the movies were just that...
In both "features" of Grindhouse, the MISSING REEL card flashes as a sex scene has just begun. That's a comment on the old days, but it also proves that when it comes to eroticism, of the true or even exploitation variety, these directors are such cowards. If they use...
Old Hollywood had men-only genres too, especially the western. Cowboy films allowed for a token lady part, to give the hero someone to fight over; but she would never do the fighting, instead cowering, paralyzed with dread, during the final showdown. It wasn't until the exploitation movies of...