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Exploitation
in issue 64
Between Nudist Morality and Freudian Realism! Denuding Fleshly Hypocrisies, Cinematic and Otherwise — "Nude on the Moon's exploitation is as innocent as the Good Christo-Nudist's reclaiming of a pre-figleafed (albeit non-recreational) Eden."
in issue 61
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish — "Nobody wants to pay to be castrated anymore."
in issue 59
Hillbilly Hustle: The Thin Line Between Hillybilly Sexploitation and Blaxploitation in Trash Cinema — "How you gonna keep um' down on the farm after they seen all this?" — voiceover from the trailer for the 1972 sexploitation film Sassy Sue"
in issue 58
The Wages of Skin: The Irrepressible Rise of All-American Smut — Linda Lovelace meets the Forty Thieves
in issue 57
Before The Green Door: The Mitchell Brothers, the Counterculture, and Hard-Core's Beginnings — It came from San Francisco
in issue 56
Nearer My Corman to Thee: Roger Corman Remembers, and Roger Corman Remembered — Give us another naked nurse and some more explosions!
in issue 45
Don't Step on It! Killer Bugs, Babes, and Beasts in 1950s Drive-in Cinema — Not that you could
in issue 44
Blood Feast Revisited, or H. G. Lewis, Keeper of the Key to All Erotic Mystery — After forty years, now serving porn as intentional camp for erotic consideration
in issue 41
Glen or Glenda: Psychiatry, Sexuality, and the Silver Screen — Normalizing "deviant" bodies and genders is just one of many tropes in Wood's complex camp classic
in issue 39
Treasures of Puppet Cinema — Wooden bottom boyz, teensy teens, and a Satanic blackface Charley McCarthy — these are just a few of the offerings from le cinema puppet
in issue 38
Of Horny Hunchbacks and Stitch Bitches — If you thought his films were bad, wait till you see his life
Chained Girls — A Twilight Tale of the Third Sex — Who is that comely, vicious gal plotting mayhem from the shadows? Why, the dyke of 1960s pop culture, of course
Molls with Claws: Three Classic Girl Gang Movies — These "dolls" paved the way for the riot grrls of the '80s — but were too busy kicking ass to notice
in issue 37
"I'm Taking the Kids!" Larry Clark's Teenage Caveman on DVD — Girlflesh 'n boyflesh 'n apocalypse
in issue 34
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Wizard of Gore — An interview with the man who created one of cinema's most enduring genres
in issue 33
Poverty Row, Wardour Street: The Last Years of British Exploitation Cinema — This golden age is more like fool’s gold, but it has its thrills
in issue 32
Decadence AIP Style: De Sade — "No actual fucking!" as the author says, but there are plenty of other pleasures in this lurid ‘60s rarity whose authorship remains contested
"They Ate His Genitals!" A Sampling of European Sex and Horror Films — These seminal sleazefests — and a couple of arty classics — will make you twist and shout
in issue 29
Russ Meyer on The Supervixens —
Russ Meyer talks about The Supervixens in this 1974 interview from the Bright Lights archives
in issue 28
Graverobbers and Drag Queens from Outer Space! Four Ed Wood Greats on DVD — The two-dollar auteur who never made a dime from his films is now one of cinema's most treasured outlaws, and rightly so
Radley Metzger's The Alley Cats — Softcore gals with hard claws
in issue 27
Roger Corman on New World Pictures: An Interview from 1974 — The godfather of "New Hollywood" speaks
Roger Corman's New World Pictures — A mini-tour of Roger Corman's legendary 1970s exploitation company
in issue 26
Radley Metzger's Dark Odyssey and Little Mother — Radley Metzger's first film and his veiled biopic of saintly slut Evita now on DVD
Radley's Metzger's The Dirty Girls; Carmen, Baby; The Princess and the Call Girl on DVD — Will Metzger mania never end?
in issue 25
Four Metzger Classics on DVD — Stylish softcore from one of the pioneers
in issue 21
Seduction is Universal: Thoughts on Radley Metzger — A few of porn's pioneering directors took the sexual revolution seriously and brought more authentic gay and bi imagery into their "straight" films. Radley Metzger, whose work spans the early 'sixties through the mid-'eighties, is by far the best of this meager lot
in issue 20
Albert Zugsmith's Opium Dreams — Can one man's brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could
in issue 18
Blaxploitation: A Sketch — These films trumpet their topicality, with an outrageous gallery of hunky pimps and pushers, knockout whores, and corrupt cops snorting, shooting, and screwing everything in sight
in issue 16
Interview with Russ Meyer — Behind that mountain of oversized tits-and-ass that make up Russ Meyer's 'body' of work is an extremely intelligent, charming, and funny man, well-versed in cinema history and pop culture
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! — Stand back when ballooned-up, masacara-drenched go-go girls leave the confines of their cages for a murderous desert rampage!
It's an Ed Wood World After All! — The "world's worst director" never apologized for wearing women's clothes, though many have questioned his taste in sweaters
