Exploitation film is defined as an informal label which may be applied to any film which is generally considered to be both low budget and of low moral or artistic merit, and therefore apparently attempting to gain financial success by “exploiting” a current trend or a niche genre or a base desire for lurid subject matter.
Lets muck around in the depraved world of exploitation films shall we?
This week we were lucky to get our old friend Luis on the show to take a walk through some of the various sub-categories of ‘sploitationn that have arisen including Blaxploitation, Hippies, Drugs, Vetsploitation, Urban Scum, Juvenile Delinquents, Tough Chicks, etc, etc. There certainly is no shortage of classifications out there from Nunsploitation to Sexsploitatio and everything in between. This visit merely scratched the surface of the pile but we’re sure you will come away with a stack of recommendations to hunt down.
Following our visit with the extreme cinema of yesteryear we get caught up with some recent (and not so recent) watches. Comments are offered on the current big screen horror options Paranormal Activity 4 and Sinister, as well as Grave Encounters 2, Mama, Spanish flicks, Halloween picks and much more. The highlight though is returning to 1931 to share our experience of catching the newly restored versions of Dracula and Frankenstein on the big screen as a double bill. Lots of obligatory gushing over the classics to close things out. And did we mention schlock corner? We also have a schlock corner.
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Hey guys, just writing to share with you a couple of recommendations of horror movies in Spanish language.
The firs one is ‘La maldición de la Llorona’ (The Curse of the Crying Woman) from 1963, a very atmospheric piece and a classic here in my country. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055128/
The second one is ‘Veneno para las Hadas’ (Poison for the fairies OR The Evil Fairies) from 1984 a movie that also relies very much in atmosphere and does a couple of very interesting things, specially with the perspective in witch this tale is told. A very underrated movie here, but it has it’s followers. Also the last one of the horror movies directed by Carlos Taboada considered one of the best directors of the genre in the Spanish language. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135033/
I’ll leave this article here that describes the some of the work of this influential director: http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/?p=5971
I’m sure you’ll do a great episode on the subject and I’m very much exited to hear what you have to say about some movies in my native language .