Tag: exploitation

MAD HEIDI Review: A Mostly Fun, Sometimes Icky Journey Through Exploitation Subgenres

Mad Heidi is clearly in love with the vast history of exploitation and grindhouse films. That’s never more on display than during a sequence in which we watch the titular Heidi (Alice Lucy) go through a Kung-Fu film inspired training...

Toronto 2017 Review: BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Prestige Grindhouse Moviemaking

Sometimes, you have to smash things to bits before life can get better. But then life only gets better for a while before it gets much, much worse. More smashing is required, some resolution gained. Then, well, hmmm, that seems...

Interview: Unpacking The Technicolor Radiance Of THE LOVE WITCH With Director Anna Biller

The Love Witch opened in Los Angeles this past Friday and premieres in New York next week. It was easily one of my favourite experiences in the cinema this year and it was a privilege to see it at the...

Fantaspoa 2016 Interview: Brian Trenchard-Smith On TURKEY SHOOT And DEAD END DRIVE-IN

Fantaspoa’s tradition of paying homage to living legends of genre cinema, such as Lloyd Kaufman, Richard Stanley and Fabio Frizzi, continues in 2016 with a mini retrospective dedicated to fearless filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith, key figure of the so-called Ozploitation subgenre....

Now On Blu-Ray: WHAT?, FELICITY, THAT'S SEXPLOITATION, & KUNG FU TRAILERS OF FURY From Severin Films

Severin Films has been very busy over the last several months delivering one stunner after another. In an effort to catch up on the deluge of quality releases, we're offering our opinions in a gallery of their most recent Blu-ray...

The Second ZOMBIE SHARK Trailer Arrives: Two Girls One Shark!

Cast your mind back to June, when we had a sneak trailer for Tiburón Zombie aka. Zombie Shark, featuring a pretty girl sunning next to a bathtub with a zombie shark in it. Well, that was perhaps more of a...

Surveying The Glandscape: Russ Meyer At The Anthology Film Archives

Just about anyone who stops by ScreenAnarchy is bound to know the name Russ Meyer, and is at least aware of a film entitled Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, or perhaps Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. Associated with the man...

The Machine Gun Woman Does Not Want You To Clean Her Window, Thanks.

Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman is freshly out in Chilean cinemas and the titular character wants you to know one thing. She's aware that her car is dirty. And she's fine with that....

Astron 6 Is BREAKING SANTA

Astron 6 - the Canadian film collective responsible for Father's Day - love Christmas. The love it so much, in fact, that they wanted to give you a present. A festive treat, of sorts. And so here it is, an...

By The Time You Say It, She's Shot Yours Off. First BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN Trailer!

Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Machine Gun Woman arrived at Fantastic Fest with her guns blazing, prompting our own Ryland Aldrich to proclaim the latest from the director of Mandrill and Mirageman a dose of "wildly sexy violence". A should you be...