Posts filled under: exploitation
GALAXY OF TERROR!111!!!!!!!
Kung Fu Zombie. Because sometimes, exploitation of a single genre just isn’t enough, and you have to turn it into what’s known as clusterfucksploitation.
TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK: One-Sheets of the Week: Laura Gemser behind bars!
EMANUELLE FUGA DALL’INFERNO (1983)
US release in 1986 as WOMEN’S PRISON MASSACRE
Give me a K - Give me an I - Give me an L - Give me an L
Great example of horror/exploitation movie art from 1988, which also graced the VHS cover and was no doubt gazed at in many pre-Blockbuster video shops by young impressionables like myself.
The 80s were the glory days of horror art, when everything was hand-drawn (wistful sigh) and not cobbled together in five minutes on Photoshop by, erm, not-so-young impressionables like myself. Likewise, exploitation was something to be, well, expoloited.
As if the sexploitation of the concept and artwork wasn’t enough here, they manage to shoehorn a classic bit of clueless white-frat-boys-impersonate-Run-DMC mid-eighties rapsploitation, halfway through the trailer. Look upon thy works America, and despair:
- Jimboeth
(image via Space Bastard - great horror blog, go check it out. Oh, and click the image for a rilly rilly big scan, so you can see all the bonkers background bits properly.)
Is this an advance for the genre, or simple capitalist greed? OK yes, we know it’s pretty, but we’re looking for insight. INSIGHT DAMMIT! Oh … the Tru Blood bandwagon, yeah?
Quite apart from debating whether Vampires are the undead or not (they’re possessed by demons, shhhirley), I’m willing to plant a big wager that Somalian pirates are the kind of un-undead psychos with a decidedly corporeal gunboat. And they don’t turn into skellingtons* and/or sea monsters when the moonlight hits them.
via Fangoria : PLAYBOY bites into the sexy history of the Vampire!
* First person to tell me that’s not how to spell “skeletons” gets a punch to the medulla oblongata.**
** First person to tell me that’s not a bone gets more of the same.
- Jimboeth
