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Style of Eye - August 2008

movie posters V - exploitation!

August 22nd 2008 00:21

I’m back with my favourite post material: movie posters. But this time I’ve streamlined the selection (to be precise I’ve ruffled the edges). Yes, I’m a dirty rough trade pervert at the best of times, despite my professed love of the clean and smooth aesthetic. As much as I like my slick and polished cineaste graphic design, I also get my groove on to the low riders, the grunge design concept of grindhouse flicks.

To be brutally honest, the art work for the B-grade (and admittedly to a lesser degree the Z-grade) movies is often far more provocative and striking than the mainstream dross, especially during the heyday of the exploitation movies; the late 60s and through that particularly fantastic decade of cinema, the 1970s. The just don’t make ‘em like they used to!

Filmmakers were pushing the boundaries of good taste and the envelope of common decency, producing some of the most outrageously decadent and thoroughly reprehensible movies ever made. The movie posters would attempt to reflect this to lure the dirty mac brigade in off the sidewalk and into a decrepit auditorium to watch some cheesy schlock horror or a sleazy flesh fest.

Now, apart from the odd maverick who attempts to rear their head a little higher than the rest to make something tough and uncompromising (and might just have it lopped off!), most so-called “exploitation” movies are safe enough to take your grandmother along to … providing she’s got her tongue pierced and is wearing a leather girdle under her petticoat.

So here are some tarnished golden oldies to get you all hot under the collar and sticky over.

Fury of the Succubus aka Satan's Mistress

You gotta love those titles! Tight Skirts Loose Pleasures! Sexual Apocalypse! Vicious Lips! Ha! Bring it on! My "clean" favourite winners here are the Fury of the Succubus poster and the (High Priestess of) Sexual Witchcraft. But I also really dig the Spanish flick El Caminante (aka Traveller), there's something boldy unapologetic about that illustration. The Virgin Witch poster has a deep sensual eyesore allure too, but at the end of a long hard night you can't go past Russ Meyer's buxom babe, heh heh.

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Comment by Cibbuano

August 22nd 2008 05:42

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Raoul, you're a filthy, disgusting blogger. Showing us debauchery like that. No good can come of this.

I want to see all of those movies, then collect all the posters. Such fun, back then, before Photoshop meant that studios could get lazy and indifferent with posters like this steaming piece of garbage.

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Comment by Cibbuano

August 22nd 2008 05:43

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you KNOW I'm going to review SuperVixens as soon as I see it. As soon as I get my nasty little hands on it. Ah, Russ, you were one of a kind...

Comment by Raoul Duke

August 22nd 2008 06:20

Style of Eye

Cibby, the only thing I'm envious of Dane Cook is that he got to be intimate with Jessica Alba ...

SuperVixens ... it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is the boob and derriere all Meyer. Still, that poster.

I'm so glad you find me to be the lecherous sleaze bucket that I am.

Cos, you'd be right.

Comment by Anonymous

August 22nd 2008 07:41

I think I saw the succubus when I was a teenager. Man those movies were made just perfectly for teenage boys.

Love your work.

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