Monday, 15 November 2021 02:00

This Director Is Bringing Back Exploitation

Written by Ben Sherlock
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Exploitation cinema had its heyday in the '70s, but Dragged Across Concrete's S. Craig Zahler is bringing its gritty sensibility into the modern age.

In cinema, “exploitation” is loosely defined as a subcategory of lo-fi B-movies exploring lurid subject matter in a hard genre context. Exploitation had its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s with groundbreaking yet extremely controversial hits like Cannibal Holocaust, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and I Spit on Your Grave.

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