Exploitation Has been used by Hollywood’s biggest and smallest theatres to captivate audiences by using taboo subject matters such as childbirth, nudity, violence, and gore. The films that took advantage of the taboo was cult cinema using everything and anything they could to make money and draw in a huge following. even movies that didn’t make much sense like the movie “Manic”. Which had a very loose plot and didn’t introduce hardly any of its characters. It also randomly cut to animals fighting and most likely only gained such a huge following due to the fact that it depicted the horrible and tragic suicide crisis at that time. This is how the movie still attainted a pretty big following due to the writers’ and directors’ exploitation of that time periods audience.

The documentary movie “American Grindhouse” depicts the movies and the time periods they were taking place it. It also does a very great job of showing how the movie industry changed over time and why. For instance, Nudity Starting phasing out of theatres when American teen movies starting coming out depicting rebellious America that no one had seen before. Then once that genre was overplayed the audience started craving more so gore started to arise. It also talks about how the ever-changing economics of America really played into the factors of the ratings and which movies would become cult movies.

I personally thought that both movies were intriguing in their own ways for instance “manic” showed me what a bad movie looked like. “American Grindhouse” showed me the transformations a the movie industry and not only the genres but all the legality and the changes involved in cinema at different time periods. I can’t wait to see more.

By: Victoria Empson