Tag Archives: Exploitation

Bruce Campbell, Man with the Screaming Brain

By Steen | December 19, 2005

Bruce Campbell’s directorial debut is a very entertaining film, but it also says a lot about the concept of cult films. Campbell’s film is aimed squarely at the fans of silly B-movies, more in the vein of Bubba-Hotep than Evil Dead though there is a clear over-lap. It is also completely dependent upon Campbell’s star [...]

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Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song

By Steen | November 3, 2005

Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song is a peculiar film alternately hailed as the first blaxploitation film and criticised for its reductive images of the black man. I, however, believe that there is a reason to view the film not from a specific genre viewpoint, nor to regard it as having to conform to perceived notions [...]

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Brett Sullivan, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed

By Steen | September 16, 2005

Ginger Snaps: Unleashed is the sequel to Ginger Snaps, from 2000 so there has been quite some time to develop the mythology of the werewolf-myth. Along with Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, these three films present a very interesting take on the werewolf myth and while none of the fims share directors or writers they [...]

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David S. Goyer, Blade Trinity

By Steen | February 8, 2005

The final installment in the Blade-trilogy, Trinity is not the strongest of the three (I think it’s the second one), but with six years between the first and now the last, it is very interesting to see the development in style. Since these films are representative of the Hollywood action-spectacle, we get a very keen [...]

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