exploitation cinema

American  

[ek-sploi-tay-shuhn sin-uh-muh] / ˌɛk splɔɪˈteɪ ʃən ˈsɪn ə mə /

noun

1. exploitation film.

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Example Sentences

To honor the recent loss of Roger Corman, the king of exploitation cinema, the service has re-upped its birthday tribute to the filmmaker.

From New York Times

That’s the setup in the writer-director Michel Franco’s contrived drama with Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, whose work in this artsified slab of exploitation cinema is strong enough that you wish their characters would run off to an entirely different movie.

From New York Times

Mashing up an assortment of artistic styles – mainly 1940s detective potboilers, Westerns, John Woo-style gun ballets and space sagas with jazz, rock, and a sauce of exploitation cinema ladled over the top – Watanabe merged lithe adventure with tragic love story, smoothly driving between comedy and existential malaise.

From Salon

Looks like true exploitation cinema the likes of which we rarely get these days.

From The Guardian

Unlike most pieces of true crime entertainment – which may be exploitative but lack the visceral and transgressive power of true exploitation cinema – the film will scare off the majority of viewers.

From The Guardian