Often associated with the category of B-movies or with cult cinema as a whole, exploitation cinema consists of films that capitalize on controversial current events or taboo topics and exploit them ...

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 ...

“It’s so funny to me that Andy Milligan has become this great cult figure,” Laura Shaine Cunningham told IndieWire. To Cunningham — an author and playwright who describes her stint in Z-grade movies ...

Long before he became synonymous with iconic roles in The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson's first foray into acting was in a not-too-widely-known gritty exploitation film.

He and ill-fated director Al Adamson fed drive-ins with these kinds of movies — ‘Dracula vs. Frankenstein’ among them — starting in the late 1960s. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Sherman died Monday at ...

The cineastes at Film Forum are doing a hard sell for Joseph Cates’s “Who Killed Teddy Bear” (1965). Cates’s picture, we are told, is “the apex of lurid ’60s exploitation movies” and “seething with a ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...