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 ...

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 ...

Last House on Dead End Street is a gruesome exploitation film with real versus fake murder speculation. Director Roger Watkins originally used a pseudonym, only later to reveal he made the film.

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies is a documentary that looks into the world of exploitation films, particularly those from the 1950s and 60s. These were low-budget, outrageous movies ...

The Aquarius Releasing head was involved with ‘Deep Throat,’ ‘Barbed Wire Dolls,’ ‘Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave’ and ‘Doctor Butcher, Medical Deviate’ during his 70-year career. By Mike Barnes ...

I am beyond pleased to speak to the merits of an iconic grindhouse actioner today. John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the most seamlessly executed exploitation films ever made. The ...

“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 ...

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 ...