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Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...

An exploitation film is generally considered to be low budget and it possesses low artistic merit, as well as low morals. It attempts to gain infamy and a following by exploiting a current trend, ...

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ―Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night Ti West’s Maxxxine, the third movie in the horror trilogy West started with 2022’s X and ...

Last House on Dead End Street is a gruesome exploitation film with real versus fake murder speculation. Director Roger Watkins originally used a pseudonym, only later to reveal he made the film.

Decades before "The Hunger Games" and "Talladega Nights" brought Hollywood productions to Charlotte, a handful of locals gave independent movie making a shot with varying degrees of success. "The ...

The film hyperbolically pushes the alarm button, all to push OUR buttons. But that last element — the fact that it does take itself seriously — turned out to be the bait that hooked the critics. What ...

As most genre fans realize, exploitation and Psychotronic films are not necessarily surface-level works. While yes, they often gleefully include transgressive elements (especially sex and violence), ...

The exploitation genre of movies is a cinematic archetype that encompasses plenty of low budget schlock churned out in the 70s. It's recognizable by its complete disregard for quality in favor of raw ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a product of a unique time in American filmmaking, when independent exploitation films were nastier than ever, and equally capable of piercing the mainstream ...