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Exploitation films

519 entries. Curated, not exhaustive. A short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.

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Poster for Blue Sunshine

Blue Sunshine

1977 · USA · 94m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally

A batch of ten-year-old LSD makes people go bald and homicidal. A great, paranoid premise.

Poster for Wild in the Streets

Wild in the Streets

1968 · USA · 91m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

A rock star is elected president and puts everyone over 35 in LSD re-education camps.

Poster for Psych-Out

Psych-Out

1968 · USA · 82m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

A deaf runaway searches for her brother in Haight-Ashbury. Nicholson with a ponytail and a band.

Poster for The Trip

The Trip

1967 · USA · 85m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

Corman stages an LSD experience with every optical trick he had. Written by Jack Nicholson.

Poster for El Topo

El Topo

1970 · Mexico · 125m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

Jodorowsky's mystical, violent acid western. It essentially invented the midnight movie.

Poster for The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain

1973 · Mexico · 114m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally

Jodorowsky's spiritual epic. Every frame is a blasphemous tableau, and it is dead serious.