Often associated with the category of B-movies or with cult cinema as a whole, exploitation cinema consists of films that capitalize on controversial current events or taboo topics and exploit them ...

The exploitation genre is a broad category. It covers everything from cynical cash grabs made to capitalize on lucrative filmmaking trends to pictures that put sex and violence over substance. And ...

Equal parts midnight movie, psychodrama and reality-tripping goof, “Leonor Will Never Die” counts as one of the year’s most wonderfully offbeat debuts. Filipino writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar ...

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, a self-described movie maniac who likes all genres, has a special fondness for exploitation flicks. “William Lustig changed my life. As a child, I saw the movie ‘Maniac,’ and it ...

After Dark: Starring Olivia DeJonge as one unlucky babysitter, this seasonal home invasion from 2016 combines holiday magic with the winking cruelty of “Funny Games.” The week between Christmas and ...

It’s strange to think that Robert Mandel’s The Substitute turned 25 this year. It feels like I was re-shelving it in the ‘new releases’ section of the video store I worked in not all that long ago.

Even if what you’re digging for is ultra-violence at the expense of Nazis, you won’t exactly strike gold with “Sisu.” Set in World War II Finland, the English-language film tells of a grizzled ...

“TONIGHT!” roared the ad, “You are invited to a PILL PARTY. You will experience every jolt, every jar of a psychedelic circus… The Beatniks… Sickniks… and ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Equal parts midnight movie, psychodrama and reality-tripping goof, “Leonor Will Never Die” counts as one of the year’s most wonderfully offbeat debuts. Filipino writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar ...