Grindsploitation
Grindhouse and Exploitation. Crown International Pictures, American International Pictures, Canon Film Group, Corman, etc. Inspired by trailers from 42nd Street Forever and Shock Festival, and Re/Search's Cult Cinema book.
I have deliberately left off the films we already know, like Trip With Teacher and Desperate Living, to focus on other releases that may be new to you.
I have deliberately left off the films we already know, like Trip With Teacher and Desperate Living, to focus on other releases that may be new to you.
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- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsLee MajorsKaren BlackMargaux HemingwayJewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
- DirectorJoseph RubenStarsJohn SavageWill MacMillanAnne SaxonRobert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultry and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.
- DirectorTom DeSimoneStarsJacqueline GirouxAnnik BorelTracy HandfussA prison psychiatrist prepares six female inmates for parole by granting them a weekend furlough, during which each of them has a sexual encounter.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsFranco NeroSusan GeorgeShô KosugiAfter passing a ninja master test in Japan, Cole visits a war buddy in the Philippines. He helps him fight men, who want his buddy's plantation.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsAldo RayMimsy FarmerMichael EvansLA police captain attempts to appease Sunset Strip businessmen objecting to hippy youths hanging out, by setting a curfew. The cop also thinks the kids have a right to be there, until his estranged daughter joins the counter-culture crowd.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsFabianDiane McBainKevin CoughlinA teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
- DirectorWilliam SachsStarsStephen MachtAvery SchreiberJ.D. HintonIn the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
- DirectorWilliam FruetStarsBrenda VaccaroDon StroudChuck ShamataA rich playboy has a large house in the Ontario countryside. One weekend he invites his girlfriend, a fashion model, but on his way to the house he drives past a gang of crazed young men. The men find out where the house is and terrorize the couple.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsPatty ByrneAlana StewartMittie LawrenceFunny sexual fantasy with three naughty nurses.
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsJohn IrelandYvonne De CarloJack KruschenThe janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the cheerleading squad to use for their rituals. However, unbeknownst to the devil-worshipers, one of the cheerleaders is actually a witch, and has plans of her own for the Satanists.
- DirectorMichael RaeStarsKim MilfordCheryl SmithGianni RussoA teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon, which transforms him into a grotesque killer.
- DirectorNicholas SgarroStarsLynn RedgraveJean-Pierre AumontLovelady PowellIn the first of three films on the life of Xaviera Hollander, the famous hooker from Holland traces her career as madam of the biggest and most profitable bordellos in New York.
- DirectorAndy SidarisStarsWilliam SmithBarbara LeighGuich KoockHawaii has fallen under the control of a ruthless cartel of seven gangsters. The FBI acquires the services of an ex-agent turned assassin, Drew Savano, who in turn assembles a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
- DirectorPete WalkerStarsBarbara MarkhamPatrick BarrRay BrooksAn insane couple take over the operation of an old jail and seek out young women who they believe have escaped justice. A beautiful young French model becomes their latest victim and must attempt escape or face an almost certain death.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsRay SagerJudy ClerWayne RatayA TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
- DirectorAllan ArkushNicholas NiciphorRoger CormanStarsDavid CarradineClaudia JenningsRichard LynchFuturistic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
- DirectorBethel BuckalewStarsJohn TullNan CeeJack RichesinJunior comes from the country to Hollywood where he soon ends up living in a house full of prostitutes. As payment for his rent, Junior is assigned the task of driving the girls around in a van that doubles as a place to have sex.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsCharles BronsonLee RemickDonald PleasenceA Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
- DirectorBob BrooksStarsBruce DernMaud AdamsLeonard FreyUnbalanced tattoo artist Karl Kinsky grows obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired for a photo shoot. As Karl's obsession grows, he determines that Maddy should bear his mark forever.
- DirectorPaul KyriaziStarsRonald L. MarchiniMichael ChongJoshua JohnsonAn evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsJon FinchJenny RunacreSterling HaydenA trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
- DirectorGeorg TresslerStarsNina FrederikCatharina ContiHeidrun HankammerFive sexy females from the planet Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet. In Bavaria they use machines to extract the samples from resisting males but soon learn that sex is an easier way to get what they want.
- DirectorLarry N. StoufferStarsPat CardiAustin StokerRosie HolotikA shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.
- DirectorS.F. BrownriggStarsBill McGheeJessie Lee FultonRobert DracupA young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
- DirectorNoel NosseckStarsStella StevensStuart WhitmanGeorge DiCenzoGambling, Heists, Love and Intrigue - all part of this suspense-filled comedy about a female gang that plans a daring caper in the gambling capital of the world, Las Vegas.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsJoseph CottenElke SommerMassimo GirottiA young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life - searching for new victims.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsJanet LeighRobert HoffmannKlaus KinskiTo pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsGloria HendryCheri CaffaroRosanna OrtizThree women of three races join the fundraising part of an island revolution.
- DirectorHoward R. CohenStarsVince EdwardsDavid MendenhallPatsy PeaseA futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
- DirectorStephen CarpenterJeffrey ObrowStarsLaurie LapinskiStephen SachsDavid SnowFour college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsDavid CarradineBill McKinneyVeronica HamelRacing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsAldo RayMimsy FarmerMichael EvansLA police captain attempts to appease Sunset Strip businessmen objecting to hippy youths hanging out, by setting a curfew. The cop also thinks the kids have a right to be there, until his estranged daughter joins the counter-culture crowd.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsFabianDiane McBainKevin CoughlinA teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
- DirectorPaul KyriaziStarsRonald L. MarchiniMichael ChongJoshua JohnsonAn evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
- DirectorMichael Ray RhodesStarsLance KerwinGavin MuirWil WheatonThree farms boys are involved in a hunting accident, and find that their lives will be changed forever.
- DirectorYule CaiseStarsWil WheatonYule CaiseHoward HessemanA homophobic man gains a bit of enlightenment when after he is coerced into running an AIDS charity race, where the only rule is contestants must wear a minimum of 2-1/2" heels.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsJeremy SlateDiane McBainSherry JacksonDriven by jealousy, the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang instigates a sadistic reign of terror against her ex-lover and his new bride.
- DirectorRichard ErdmanStarsPeter BrownJo Ann HarrisElsa CárdenasA movie about a girl who was good...especially when she was bad. She knew how to turn them on. She didn't know how to turn them off.
- DirectorHall BartlettStarsKent LaneMichele CareyJack AlbertsonAs Kent drives along California coast, he recollects recent events in his life: dropping out of college, leaving behind his establishment-oriented roommate and square parents; but above all, the suicide of his passive girlfriend Bobbi after he dumped her. He's so filled with guilt he crashes his car, but isn't hurt. He then meets journalist Kristine who is interviewing American college students; they sleep together, but he wants to move on. He then meets experienced divorcée Julie; they get along well and she finds him a job and a place to live. But Kent's search for meaning in his life urges him to move on once again.
- DirectorGus TrikonisStarsRoss HagenDiane McBainMichael PatakiMotorcycle racer Rommel seeks vengeance against JC, a madman who murdered the sidehacker's fiancee.
- DirectorCharles EdwardsIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.StarsNoel ReyburnEthel BarrettJerry FranksA small town boy heads for the lights of the big city and discovers the delights of hard liquor and fast women. Ere long, he becomes an addict, a dope peddler and a shop-lifter to obtain money for drugs.
- DirectorRobert W. LarsenStarsArt GilmoreSharon StrandDarlene HendricksSemi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.
- DirectorGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsBud ThompsonBruna CarusoAnnabella AndreoliFilm showing the effects of drug taking: hallucinations, etc.
- DirectorHarry KerwinStarsWilliam KerwinBunny WareBrad F. GrinterRalph Higbee is a 40-year-old drunkard who lives with his mother to take care of her. When his mother dies, he picks up three women who persuade him to take LSD for an experience. Seeking a companionship to replace his mother, Ralph meets and soon marries Josephine, but he is unable to satisfy her constant desire for sex. He leaves her when he finds out that she has other male and female lovers. Ralph marries a second time, but his second wife is also unfaithful and successfully scams him out of most of his money by hiring a private detective to force him to bed down a female stenographer. Marring for the third time, Ralph is finally happy... until he cheats on her for no good reason and when she finds out... there will literal hell to pay.
- DirectorAlexander J. WellsStarsPaul KellyCathy DownsRegis ToomeyPolice Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crackdown on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas-station attendant in an aborted holdup attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. Aided by some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsLila LeedsAlan BaxterLyle TalbotA chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
- DirectorTerry MerrillWilliam GreféStarsJohn DarrellCarolyn HallJoe CraneA priest sheds his habit, tunes in, turns on, and drops out for a road trip that will change his life and bring him sorrow. Filmed in 1971 but not released until 2001.
- DirectorEdward MannStarsGeorge MontgomeryDanny SteinmannTom BakerA juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
- DirectorGary GraverStarsConnie NelsonJohn AldermanCatherine HowardThe cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets her a job as receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces her, and abandons her. This starts her down a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. She becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together and Jimmy seems more and more appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?
- DirectorDavid CommonsStarsJan SterlingJames MacArthurWilliam WindomIn Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hollywood screenwriter. On his return, Johnny has trouble finding a studio that will let him play the lead until he saves producer Vance Patton's daughter Diane from a cycle-gang attack. The grateful father sends him to agent Mori Thompson, but Thompson wants the script for gang leader Deek Stacy. Deek and his agent feed Johnny LSD and drag him away to the dungeon during the producer's Halloween party. Melody Patterson (married at the time to James MacArthur) plays April Wilde.
- DirectorWilliam F. McGahaStarsWilliam F. McGahaHannibal PenneyJoanna MooreJesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to "the West" to fight "the establishment."
- DirectorWilliam RotslerStarsSusan StewartSteve VincentJames BrandA topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with. She does it with a twist, however; she kills them with garden tools.
- DirectorJoseph MangineStarsRichard HowellEd SansoneLee ParkerTurk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
- DirectorJosé Mojica MarinsStarsJosé Mojica MarinsÂngelo AssunçãoRonaldo BeibePsychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
- DirectorConrad RooksStarsConrad RooksJean-Louis BarraultWilliam S. BurroughsSemi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsRichard ToddJames MacArthurSusan OliverA college professor resigns in protest to the dismissal of student underground newspaper workers and later joins their "hippie movement" and becomes their "Messiah."
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsChuck ConnorsStella StevensAlex CordThis film chronicles the goings on at Synanon House, a rehabilitation center for people with all kinds of addictions. Chuck Dederich, a recovering alcoholic, founded and runs Synanon House.
- DirectorDwain EsperVival Sodar'tStarsHarry CordingJoan DixPatricia FarleyExploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsHarry GuardinoBradford DillmanHope LangeAfter inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsCameron MitchellDianne FosterPaul RichardsThe true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.
- DirectorByron MabeStarsErnie F. OrsattiJudy WoodBuck KartalianA group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
- DirectorJoseph P. MawraStarsAudrey CampbellRickey BellDolly SimmonsRuthless narcotics dealer and white slavery ring leader Olga keeps her harem of girls in line by hooking them on addictive drugs. Olga suspects an informant in their midst and uses various brutal methods of torture to weed out the squealer. Meanwhile, several of Olga's girls plot their revenge against Olga for her continual sadistic treatment of them.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- DirectorBill BrameJohn LawrenceStarsRichard BeymerRuss TamblynLana WoodHere's an "Easy Rider" - inspired plot with the combination of "West Side Story" stars. Richard Beymer falls in love with Lana Wood (sister Natalie wasn't available). They need cash so they agree to help Russ Tamblyn and his gang smuggle grass from Mexico to L.A. When Beymer objects to narcotics agents being killed, his long-haired pal from the Jets puts LSD in his drink, tries to burn him alive, and has Lana kidnapped. No musical numbers, however. With Bing's son Lindsay Crosby, Joel's son Jody McCrea and deejay Casey Casem. Directed by Bill Brame ("The Cycle Savages").
- DirectorAlbert ZugsmithStarsVincent PriceLinda Lin Di HoRichard LooIn 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
- DirectorDonn GreerStarsJulia BlackburnRoger GentryDonn GreerCollege students Alice, who lives with her widower father, and nymphomaniac Kathy are invited to a pool party by their lesbian French teacher Frieda. Alice gets drunk and uses LSD, then Frieda takes a bath with her and they have sex. Alice joins a group of hippies, uses LSD and marijuana with them, and takes part in wild orgies. Then one night, a bad trip could halt the good times forever.
- DirectorLindsay ShonteffStarsMaggie StrideGay SingletonGilbert WynneSuzy arrives in London with nowhere to stay and meets Fiona, a groupie who has settled into a relationship with Lee, a singer/bassist in a rock band.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsVictor MatureAnita EkbergTrevor HowardInternational narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsLana TurnerGeorge ChakirisRichard EganA former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsHarley WoodHugh McArthurPat CarlyleA young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
- DirectorBrad F. GrinterSteve HawkesStarsSteve HawkesDana CullivanRandy GrinterA biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects.
- DirectorPaul WilliamsStarsHoward GardnerRobert F. LyonsEllen BarberA cocky Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Berkeley to Boston. His girlfriend gets busted with the second load. He and a friend go against a dirty cop and a Cuban gangster to get the load and the girl back.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsMarjoe GortnerRobert LansingEd NelsonSee former child evangelist MARJOE GORTNER as an ordinary Joe who gets involved in a dangerous DRUG SMUGGLING scheme in beautiful HAWAII! This is a movie made especially for the DRUG CULTURE circa 1974!
- DirectorJerry BelsonStarsMark BlankfieldBess ArmstrongKrista ErricksonDr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from a shy and timid doctor into a wild sex crazed party animal. To the delight and dismay of both his rich fiancée and stripper girlfriend.
- DirectorAnthony M. LanzaStarsDennis HopperJody McCreaChris NoelChino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
- DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsZalman KingDeborah WintersMark GoddardA bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
- DirectorRichard RushStarsSusan StrasbergDean StockwellJack NicholsonA deaf runaway is taken in by a psychedelic band while searching for her missing brother in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsDorothy ShortKenneth CraigLillian MilesCautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPeter FondaSusan StrasbergBruce DernA disillusioned TV-commercial director is guided by his friend through an LSD trip, during which he evaluates his identity and his relationships with women.