These two essential cult favorites are presented in definitive editions, meticulously restored from 35mm elements. But the more we discover about the exploitation genre, the more we learn the true hep cats were the ones who made the films: ruthless opportunists who produced raunchy, ribald melodramas loaded with sex, drugs, and violence, and enabled them to be shown by wrapping them in a tissue-thin pseudoeducational message. Bold Daring Shocking True: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 by Schaefer, Eric and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. No films better represent the 1970s midnight movie phenomenon as Reefer Madness and Sex Madness: two finger-wagging camp classics that hysterically warned the public of the horrors of marijuana and syphilis. Bold Daring Shocking True A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959.
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