“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 ...

Long before he became synonymous with iconic roles in The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson's first foray into acting was in a not-too-widely-known gritty exploitation film.

When Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear countdown thriller “A House of Dynamite” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, it was greeted with a chorus of praise. Just about every critic there ...

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 ...

Lis Rhodes, Journal of Disbelief (2016) (Still) (all images courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary) The British experimental feminist filmmaker Lis Rhodes is being recognized in England, at Nottingham ...

“It’s just garbage. It’s made by trashmen for trashmen.” Todd Rohal is discussing his newest film, and while most publicists might bristle at his sales pitch, “Fuck My Son!” is not most films. Based ...

The cineastes at Film Forum are doing a hard sell for Joseph Cates’s “Who Killed Teddy Bear” (1965). Cates’s picture, we are told, is “the apex of lurid ’60s exploitation movies” and “seething with a ...

In the early 1980s, Britain was gripped by a moral panic over the rise of home video (for an entertaining depiction of the time, check out the movie Censor). Horror and exploitation films, once ...