exploitation films
Sensationalist genre movies
Exploitation films are low-budget movies that emphasize sensational content—sex, violence, drugs, or taboo subjects—to attract audiences.
The term covers grindhouse genres like blaxploitation, sexploitation, and splatter films.
Originally derogatory, it now carries cult appreciation: We spent the weekend watching Italian exploitation films from the seventies.
- B-movieLow-budget, low-quality film
- grindhouseLow-budget film theater
- 42nd StreetFamous Manhattan east-west road
- women in prisonIncarcerated adult females
- low-budgetCosting relatively little
mondo · sensationalism · final girl · slasher flick · genre · scream queen · schlock · sleaze · direct-to-video · camp · guilty pleasures · shock value · drive-in movies · drive-in · midnight movies · titillation · provocative · trash
- B-moviesB-movie, cult film, cult classic, cult classics, grindhouse
- lowbrowreality TV, tabloids, gossip magazines, trash TV, celebrity gossip
- schlockschlock, schlocky, trash, junk, dreck
- violent mediaslasher movies, gore, body horror, blood sports, combat sports
- feminist mediamale gaze, female gaze, Bechdel test, representation, spectatorship
- film movementsFrench New Wave, nouvelle vague, neorealism, cinema verite, Dogma
exploitation filmsart films
Experimental or unconventional cinema
art house cinema · Oscar bait · art house films · literary adaptations · period dramas
exploitation filmsfamily entertainment
Amusement appropriate for children and adults
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