Tag: exploitation
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Sex and smoke: 30 years of Basic Instinct
“Hitchcock would have loved to do a film with the explicitness that Basic Instinct has.”
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Mega Piranha
REVIEW: (In)famous LA production house Asylum super-sizes another fishy creature as 1980s teen sensation Tiffany goes head-to-head with the mega piranha, a mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha from the Amazon and eating their way toward Florida.
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Machete
Nobody could ever accuse Robert Rodriguez of sticking to a single genre. After getting his start on the low-budget indie flick El Mariachi, documented in his autobiography Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player, Rodriguez has gone on to direct a variety of genre pics including horror flick…
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Melbourne International Film Festival: Machete Maidens Unleashed!/Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
There a number of documentaries screening at this year’s MIFF that look at the filmmaking process. Here are two such films, each dealing with the exploitation end of the business, focusing on markedly different eras – to say nothing of countries – but with overlapping themes and participants. In Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Not Quite Hollywood director Mark…
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