Exploitation films

Alvin Purple

The sex comedy that funded the entire boom. Historically important, hard going.

Bad Girls Go to Hell

The definitive Doris Wishman roughie: grimy, deranged, and edited by someone allergic to faces.

Scum of the Earth

Herschell Gordon Lewis invents the roughie the same year he invents gore. Busy man.

The Curious Dr. Humpp

Argentine, insane, and re-cut by its US distributor into something stranger.

The Immoral Mr. Teas

Historically pivotal, formally inert. Watch ten minutes and read about the rest.

The House on the Edge of the Park

Deodato points Last House at a dinner party. Grubby, mean, effective.

Supervixens

Meyer's biggest hit of the decade, and his cartoon violence at its most cartoonish.

Vixen!

The one that made the money and triggered the obscenity fight.

Lorna

Meyer stops joking. The one where the sun goes behind a cloud.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Meyer and Roger Ebert, at a major studio, on drugs. Somehow released.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Meyer's best. Tura Satana is a genuine screen presence and the dialogue snaps.