As Sam Katzman, the legendary producer of our opening film CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, once told Variety: The movie business is, after all, just a business, and many of the films in our season were designed to make money above all else (even if they found curious ways of doing it…). ‘Exploitation cinema’ is a phrase that often causes concern: who exactly is being exploited? The answer is nearly always ‘the audience’ or, more precisely, our cash and curiosity. Here, Richard from Token Homo discusses the curious nature of exploitation cinema ahead of their new Film Feels Curious season Bar Trash.īARTRASH at Genesis Cinema is a new weekly screening event that brings back to the big screen films that are rarely revived and more often derided as being, well, trash… But we (really…) love these movies and I want to explain why. Our summer-long season of sci-fi, horror and biker-chick films draws from the long history of American exploitation cinema and the increasingly wild array of modern distribution houses that are now lavishly restoring and re-releasing these forgotten titles on Blu-ray.
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