Most Influential Exploitation & Trash Movies Part 1. This selected list of 2. Sins of Celluloid articles ( part 4 will be coming soon).

Whether through advertising, shock value, or controversial subject matter, these 2. MONDO CANE 1. 96. It's also one of a few films on this list that some can argue as to whether it is, or isn't exploitation. This fascinating curio also started a trend that carries on in some form or other even now. Purporting to be a document of the weird and wild cultural practices around the world, it ends up being little more than shock sensationalism containing some sequences that are manipulated to appear as something else entirely. This is the most cruel and incredulous aspect of the film that the makers would create a scenario that wasn't there in the first place in an effort to .

SEE A Korean restaurant where you can personally select your dog of choice! SEE The ritualistic slaughter of a bull!

SEE Mutilated fishermen get their revenge of man- eating sharks! SEE Bizarre religious practices! And the list goes on. This theatrical RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT via irresponsible news reporting planted the seed for dozens of mondo shockumentaries for the next two decades; some of the more sprawling and shocking entries coming from the minds behind MONDO CANE. However, there were a handful of movies that were of a similar vintage released as far back as the 1. J& P prior to shooting their groundbreaking, sensationalistic, pseudo- simulated shockumentary. There were also a string of 'Goona Goona' pictures that traveled a similar path exposing the .

One such example of this being INGAGI from 1. Possibly one of the most racist films ever conceived, it purported to show African women being given to gorillas as sex slaves! Some of these movies would never be mistaken for anything more than disposable hokum destined to be parodied by the likes of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3. Another early example that preceded MONDO CANE by several years was NAKED AFRICA (1.

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Both films deal primarily with black culture and black history, but in different, and equally offensive ways. The former details the savagery perpetrated in war torn Africa and the latter is something of a simulated, time traveling document of slavery told in the most revolting fashion possible.

Both films are awe inspiring and will evoke a myriad of emotions from the viewer. One thing is certain, you won't think of movies the same way again after seeing these shocking pieces of cinema. These movies also gave birth to the bastard child of the mondo cycle- -the Italian cannibal movie. Among other areas that mondo movies have left their bloody fingerprints are in the way the media alters, edits and manipulates stories to support a particular agenda which is not only inexcusable, but a dangerous precedent to set. The neverending onslaught of modern .

So it’s unsurprising in. Here is an alphabetical listing of all the movies (so far) that have been certified as among the 366 weirdest ever made, along with links to films reviewed in capsule.

Shockingly enough, Riz Ortolani's song for MONDO CANE, 'More', was nominated for an Academy Award! It's a beautiful song and set the standard for overly violent movies containing overly melodic, romantic main themes. BLOOD FEAST 1. 96. These ladies often add nothing at all to the movie except to look good before having mannequin limbs torn from their bodies, animal tongues ripped from their mouths, or some form of viscera masquerading as brain matter scooped out of a freshly cracked open cranium.

One of his targets is former Playboy Playmate Connie Mason (who also took a role in Lewis' TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! Apparently resurrections such as these are accomplished by merely cooking up a big feast made up of the flesh of nubile young women sporting only the hottest of 6. Like Lewis and producer Friedman, BLOOD FEAST acquired a cult following and even got a tribute movie of sorts in the form of Jackie Kong's BLOOD DINER (1.

Lewis himself entitled BLOOD FEAST 2: ALL U CAN EAT (2. The score by director Lewis is actually pretty creepy at times with his slow beating drums, organ and horn sections. I recall the first time I saw this was in the mid 1. Continental big box with the image of the girl with her tongue ripped out splashed on the cover. The same day I was further traumatized by graphic gore seen in PIECES (1. Vestron. With BLOOD FEAST being the first color movie to depict extreme gore, it was also my first experience with gore drenched savagery onscreen, so both BLOOD FEAST and PIECES have a lot to atone for. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1. Hd Quality Hickok (2017) Watch.

These cool ghouls showed up with an appetite for human flesh. The plot is fairly inconsequential aside from a group of individuals (one of them being black) being trapped inside an old farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere engaged in battling an ever increasing horde of walking dead. A palpable fear of paranoia is present and even some social and racial commentary for good measure.

Romero would become well known for addressing issues by way of subtext in his movies and it would become more profound in his later films, particularly his zombie pictures. NIGHT became a domestic sensation whose plague spread overseas. Ipod Inconceivable (2017) 2010.

By the late 7. 0s, Romero's iconic gut munchers had marched on Europe producing a steady stream of like- minded movies that often eschewed the socio- political issues for a more fantastic, or supernatural explanation for the rising of the dead. The opening cemetery sequence is a classic most notably for the undying dialog of . Even more disheartening is that after directing DAWN OF THE DEAD (1. GONE WITH THE WIND of walking dead epics. At least Romero could never be accused of rehashing the same thing over and over, approaching each subsequent film with some fresh ideas.

Despite DAWN OF THE DEAD more or less eclipsing every other zombie movie out there, one thing is sure- -without the NIGHT, there would never have been the DAWN. MARK OF THE DEVIL 1. The release of WITCHFINDER GENERAL in 1. This was further exemplified through Ken Russell's controversial and little seen THE DEVILS in 1. Wedged in between those two was this grotesque piece of euro- trash that parlayed historical accounts for excessively violent content.

It was one of many films that used its origin in truth as an excuse to showcase an endless stream of agonizing violence. MARK OF THE DEVIL was also one of exploitation cinemas finest examples of carnival style showmanship which took the far more innocent promotional attributes of William Castle and violated them with an extreme ad campaign. Along with the fake . MARK OF THE DEVIL 2 (1.

I DRINK YOUR BLOOD 1. Meanwhile, some of their own would ultimately . It was a massacre that shocked America and a senseless slaughter that is still discussed, written about, and the subject of movies even to this day. David Durston's gory twist on Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD jettisons Manson's band of 'dirty white folks' for a more racially harmonized clutch of troublemakers.

The films storyline is a contender for Most Outrageous Plot of All Time what with its homeless hipsters being infected with rabies laced meat pies and going on a gore filled rampage. The films superb trailer is indicative of the sort of outrageous ballyhoo movie barkers would indulge in to sell their product. Some of the gore would make Herschell Gordon Lewis proud in that this film was carrying on his patently fake bloody mannequin effects in the ghoulishly best tradition possible. It's very entertaining, but Durston's most well known endeavor is a case of the films notoriety being of greater significance than the actual film itself. It also was part of a noteworthy bit of showmanship from Jerry Gross when he paired it with the mediocre Del Tenny island horror opus, I EAT YOUR SKIN aka VOODOO BLOODBATH (1.

It would become one of the most famous examples of the double feature. Durston again explored similar territory with 1. STIGMA, a film that dealt with a deadly bacteria loose in a small town.

Curiously enough, Romero would direct THE CRAZIES in 1. Durston's two tales of bloodthirsty hippies and a small town bacterial epidemic. THE ONE ARMED BOXER 1.