Episode 271 - 'Sploitation

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Exploitation film is defined as an informal label which may be applied to any film which is generally considered to be both low budget and of low moral or artistic merit, and therefore apparently attempting to gain financial success by "exploiting" a current trend or a niche genre or a base desire for lurid subject matter.

Lets muck around in the depraved world of exploitation films shall we?

This week we were lucky to get our old friend Luis on the show to take a walk through some of the various sub-categories
of 'sploitation that have arisen including Blaxploitation, Hippies, Drugs, Vetsploitation, Urban Scum, Juvenile Delinquents, Tough Chicks, etc, etc. There certainly is no shortage of classifications out there from Nunsploitation to Sexsploitation and everything in between. This visit merely scratched the surface of the pile but we're sure you will come away with a stack of recommendations to hunt down.

Following our visit with the extreme cinema of yesteryear we get caught up with some recent (and not so recent) watches.
Comments are offered on the current big screen horror options Paranormal Activity 4 and Sinister, as well as Grave Encounters 2, Mama, Spanish flicks, Halloween picks and much more. The highlight though is returning to 1931 to share our experience of catching the newly restored versions of Dracula and Frankenstein on the big screen as a double bill. Lots of obligatory gushing over the classics to close things out. And did we mention schlock corner? We also have a schlock corner.

As always we welcome your comments: [e-mail]
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[hammerhead]

If you guys do decide to do S-horror at some point, don't forget to include Alejandro Amenabar's "The Others", which is S-horror to the core, despite being in English. (Amenabar directed the film, wrote the script and even composed the score, which is pretty good I have to say)

[gurumatt]

Another good episode so thanks for that. As for the VHS comments I saw it at a festival this year and they had one of the directors there Glenn McQuaid. He basically said the different directors didn't know what one another segments were about. He also said that the title didn't come until much later so it seems the whole VHS ideas is tacked on. He goes into some detail in this interview from the festival.

[evanseconds]

Sweet. I need to catch up on my listening and get to this one.

[darkfiction74]

Great show!

Disappointing about Paranormal Activity 4, though. I'm very much looking forward to Sinister, which I'm going to see sometime next week. Maybe Halloween night.

[evanseconds]

Tony and Ted brought up the upcoming del Toro produced film "Mama" and mentioned that they did not know where it was coming from.

I haven't seen the trailer myself, but I do know that it is based on this short film from a few years back.