When a 1968 low-budget exploitation film was nominated for an Academy Award, nobody took it seriously. That underestimation ...

Sugar Rot (2025) Film Review from the 24th Annual Fantasia Film Festival, a movie directed by Becca Kozak, written by Becca Kozak, and starring Chloe Macleod, Drew Forster, Michela Ross, and Charles ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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), ...