Exploitation film
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An exploitation film is a film that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films often feature themes such as suggestive or expl
A publicity still for the silent film Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917), which claimed to alert about the perils of premarital sex. Such "sex hygiene" films are considered an early form of exploitation film.
Grindhouse
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A grindhouse or action house is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows low-budget horror, splatter, foreign and exploitation films for adults. According to historian David Church, this theat
Exploitation film
…as the film's actual content. Titillating and artistic elements frequently coexist; many art films rejected by the Hays Code were screened in the same grindhouses as exploitation films. Exploitation films share a willingness to explore "disreputable" material, much like the transgressive works of European auteurs…
42nd Street in 1985 Times Square, depicting the Lyric, one of several grindhouses at the time
Grindhouse marquees along 42nd St (New York City, 1973)
Million Dollar Theater in Los Angeles (2012), marquee advertising Mickey One and Blast of Silence
Theaters in San Francisco (1956)