Wildside Cinema

Over the years I’ve crossed paths with many people interested in becoming exploitation/cult cinema fans, as if one could “choose” to be such a way, and I’ve done my best to point them in the direction of beginner fare before leading them into the real ugliness. A few (very few) have remained, the rest faded away when they realized that it isn’t at all the campy fun of MST3K or their local horror host. Certainly exploitation and cult cinema can be campy fun but, generally speaking, it’s sleazy and offensive; the lowest common denominator served up on a nudie girl plate by a horny black girl named Nubia. It stinks, it’s sticky and ugly, and it grates on your ears like the sound of a million chalk boards being clawed at. You don’t become a fan of exploitation cinema for the “fun” of it, you become one because Continue reading »