![]() ![]() Things you would see often in Mondo films included nudity, crazy tribal rituals, animal cruelty, barbarism and surgeries. There were also Mondos made that re-created various periods in history such as the slavery period ( Goodbye Uncle Tom). These were pseudo-documentaries/travelogues that usually exploited strange and/or shocking subject matter filmed in exotic places around the globe. The Italian term “Mondo” translates to “world” in English. Notable titles include: Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust and Jungle Holocaust, Umberto Lenzi’s Eaten Alive!, Cannibal Ferox and Man From Deep River and Joe D’Amato’s Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals. Stomach churning scenes featuring animal cruelty, raw flesh eating and bloody castrations were nothing out of the ordinary in these movies. Taking inspiration from such mainstream movie classics as The Naked Prey and A Man Called Horse these graphically violent adventure/gore stories often focused on American or European expeditions that traveled to the jungles of South America and became unwitting victims of the cannibal tribes living there. This shocksploitation subgenre originated in Italy during the 70s and 80s. Classics include the 60s Olga’s Girls series, Friedman and Lewis’ Scum of The Earth! (1963), Doris Wishman’s Bad Girls Go To Hell (1965) and Lee Frost’s The Defilers (1965). It was pretty sick stuff and perfect for the adult Grindhouse theatergoers who craved more seedy, exciting thrills. ![]() They featured stories dealing with S&M, kidnappings and sexual abuse. These injected violence and sadism into the standard, rather innocent, softcore mix. ![]() “Roughies” were the next wave of more lurid Sexploitation cinema. Teas (1959), and The Bellboy and The Playgirls (1962) directed by a young Francis Ford Coppola. Some early successful examples are Russ Meyers’ The Immoral Mr. These differed from their predecessors since they had various kinds of stories that took place outside the usual nudist camp settings. A little later, the Nudie-Cutie subgenre was born. The productions were mostly filmed within actual nudist camp settings and had offbeat plots. Friedman & Herschell Gordon Lewis (Daughter of The Sun, 1962) as well as Doris Wishman ( Nude on The Moon, 1961) were the first to exploit this concept. A collection of low budget directors led by Edgar G. In the late 50s and early 60s a new type of fictional nudist genre was created. The 1930s was when docu-dramas about nudity first appeared in theaters (This Nude World, 1932, Germany) and The Unashamed (1938)). Decades later during the beatnik and hippie eras many more films focusing on the downside of drugs (LSD, Heroin, Pot) were released such as The Hard Road, Mary Jane, High School Confidential and The Hooked Generation. These films (which often played in traveling roadshows) may have been conceived as sincere morality tales but often came across as sensational and very comical. The earliest kinds of exploitation films were actually presented as educational movies about things like the dangers of illegal drugs ( The Devil’s Joint, Reefer Madness, Marihuana) and premarital sex ( She Shoulda Said No! and Child Bride). ![]() In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. ![]()
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