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A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.
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- TriviaJohn Amero, Pam Grier, and Harry H. Novak were all approached to be interviewed in this documentary, but they all declined.
- ConnectionsFeatures Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
- SoundtracksThe Thieving Magpie Overture
composed by Gioachino Rossini
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Open-Ended Interviews Quickly Lose Sight of Their Original Subject
About as interesting as a loosely-related series of sparse conversations with cult-favorite directors is likely to get. The goal seems to have been the assembly of a "straight from the horse's mouth" oral history of exploitation at large in cinema, but none of the subjects could really nail down the outer limits of what the term meant. So, instead, it became a crash-course history of underground film, decorated at all corners with vaguely familiar old men reminiscing about their glory days. The narrative jumps all over the place, sometimes floating from the '20s to the '90s over the course of a single sentence - that's OK, though, because the sheer breadth of knowledge and a shared recollection of the crazy promotional stunts each film undertook to get noticed makes the journey worthwhile. It's also one hell of a Netflix recommendation engine.
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- Aug 9, 2011
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- Американский грайндхаус
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- $5,529
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- $5,529
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