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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 Cannibal Apocalypse

Cannibal Apocalypse

1980 · Italy/Spain · 92m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.

Poster for Man from Deep River

Man from Deep River

1972 · Italy · 94m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally. banned somewhere

The one that started it, by remaking A Man Called Horse in Thailand.

Poster for Zombie Holocaust

Zombie Holocaust

1980 · Italy · 84m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Cannibals and zombies at once, reusing the Zombi 2 sets and cast.

Poster for Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day

2001 · France/Germany · 101m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally

Cannibal desire filmed like an art installation, and it will not hurry for you.

Poster for Jungle Holocaust

Jungle Holocaust

1977 · Italy · 91m
Obscurity: cult. watchable legally

Deodato's first pass. Slower, meaner, less interesting than what followed.

Poster for Anthropophagus

Anthropophagus

1980 · Italy · 87m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Almost entirely people walking around an island. Then two minutes of infamy.

Poster for Eaten Alive!

Eaten Alive!

1980 · Italy · 88m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Lenzi recycling other films' footage into a Jonestown story. Grim work.

Poster for Frontier(s)

Frontier(s)

2007 · France/Switzerland · 101m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

Texas Chainsaw with a French accent and a swastika over the door.

Poster for Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

1977 · Italy · 93m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally

Black Emanuelle wanders into a cannibal picture, and D'Amato lets both halves misbehave.

Poster for Mountain of the Cannibal God

Mountain of the Cannibal God

1978 · Italy · 101m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally. banned somewhere

The cannibal cycle in a dinner jacket, ex-Bond girl and real animal deaths included.

Poster for Cannibal Ferox

Cannibal Ferox

1981 · Italy · 93m
Obscurity: known. watchable legally. banned somewhere

Lenzi chasing Deodato with none of the argument. Real animal deaths, no defence.

Poster for Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust

1980 · Italy · 96m
Obscurity: canon. watchable legally. banned somewhere

A serious film about media atrocity that committed real atrocity.