The reference is from Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, a film I saw yesterday and which seems excellent to begin a discussion of the difference of exploitation films. Now, one of the difficult things to explain about these films is exactly why some are successful and some are utter crap. Turbulence 3 falls into the latter […]
By Steen | April 29, 2007
Martino’s Torso is really a perfect example of the giallo genre. Plenty of naked girls, an insane killer, suspense and slashings. The only real weakness it has is its insistence on showing poorly executed gore sequences. As a low-budget film, it works extremely well, but in these gore sequences it is difficult not to lose […]
By Steen | March 21, 2007
Deodato’s much-maligned Cannibal Holocaust is in many ways the ultimate exploitation film, and yet also much more. While the acting is at times rather stilted, and the violence seems gratuitous like most other exploitation films, this film rather enacts the desire of the spectator to see the unseen.
Cannibal Holocaust thus enacts and stages itself - […]
In much the same way, people can use these narratives to understand themselves, particularly in opposition to a dominant culture in which they are not openly acknowledged. An example of this is the cultural movement of afrofuturism, exisiting primarily at the website afrofuturism.net and its corresponding Yahoo listserv, established by Alondra Nelson in 1998 (Nelson, […]
By Steen | March 13, 2006
Underworld Evolution is the sequel to Underworld, also directed by Lee Wiseman. It is a very direct continuation of the first film, and in this way it also continues the storyline established by the first film. We learn more of the history of vampires and werewolves, which is in fact one of the film’s stronger […]
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