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exploitation cinema

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

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“In Fabric” is the latest blissfully deranged B-movie homage from the British-born writer-director Peter Strickland, who over the past several years has become a witty and imaginative fetishist of various strains of exploitation cinema.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2019

Toying with Japanese horror and exploitation cinema, it cast a sombre spell over all who played.

From The Guardian Sep. 19, 2019

In the spirit of great exploitation cinema past, Blood Drive's plot is more an excuse for gore than an actual narrative.

From The Verge Jun. 27, 2017

But there’s a certain conceptual purity to this film – the purity of exploitation cinema and community theater, swirled into a strange combo – that leaves me indisposed to mockery.

From Salon Mar. 10, 2015

Superficially “Casa de Mi Padre” recalls the genre excesses and insider yuks of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse,” their duetting homage to 1970s-style exploitation cinema.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2012

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