Rape-revenge ad associated sleaze

[Canetoad]

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May 11, 2008 2:52:56 GMT -5 Canetoad said:

May 9, 2008 16:54:30 GMT -5 HNT said:

Wow, Toad. You've gone from not wanting to watch any film with unnecessary rape scenes to watchin full on naziploitation pics. THat deserves a blessing for the perversity of it, lol

LOL. Thanks HNT. Toad is vrey selective in his sleaze though... I have a prticular dislike for I Spit on Your Grave because I think it is a rape film with some revenge tacked on the end, and is a bit too prurient for my sensibilties. And worse it pretends to be more than it i s - which is just low brow exploitation.

Stuff like Nazisploitation however has no prentensions and is just great sleazy fun. SS Hell Camp comdes to mind...

Maybe time for a fork here. Toad love forking.

How do people here feel about sexually aggressve exploitation films - stuff in those wonderful sub-genres like Nazi-sploitaton, women in prison and Nun-sploitation for example? Or even overlooked masterpieces like Porno Holocaust or Hard Gore?

Any favourites? Any objections?

[GL]

I haven't dealt too deeply into Naziploitation (which will be remedied in the forthcoming weeks with viewings of both Salon Kitty and Ilsa the Wicked Warden, inspired by viewings through friends in other forums and my need to get back into removing some unwatched films from my collection I already own rather than just adding to it) and from my experiences with WIP or Nunsploitation efforts (99 Women, Sadomania and Love Letters of a Portugese Nun) high-end nudity hasn't really phased me all that much. I've actually found them to be pretty fun at times and worthwhile, if not for the sleaze but certainly for the fact that they're each certainly highly fun for other reasons. In other words, I enjoy the films inspite of the nudity, rather than because of them, though a healthy helping of which never hurts either. This is still a genre I'm exploring, though, so I don't have a ton of experience with these films.

[HNT]

Well, I do enjoy Joe D'Amato's Black Emanuelle series (also has no pretense of being anything other than perverse exploitation lunacy), and I've seen Caligula and Salon Kitty of course (both awful BTW). I did enjoy the original Jonathan Demme Chained Heat as far as women in prison flicks go (primarily because it was perversely feminist).

Personally, I don't really tangle with naziploitation, and more often than not I don't approve of rape being used in a film, unless it is either tastefully handled or i so off the wall tasteless that it has no bearing on real life. This is a bridge that I don't really want to cross any time soon

[GL]

I was going through my VHS collection to get ready for next week's Naziploitation viewing (Salon Kitty and Ilsa the Wicked Warden for those who forgot) and I made two fantastic discoveries: not only do I have Chained Heat in it, but I also have an uncut, English subtitled print of Salo, 120 Days of Sodom. It's in Italian, but English subtitled, so I'm good. I didn't even know I had it, but it must've come from a couple years ago, when I bought like 100 VHS tapes off a friend for about $20, and this one must've been one of them, but I feel glad that I've got something now to tie next week together. I'm going to delve into sleaze next week, I can't wait!!

[HNT]

OOOh, you are very lucky to have found Salo, man. I would not call it exploitation or sleaze, though. That is a beautifully made and truly important film by one of the finest directors who ever lived. Unfortunately, most viewers are so put off by the subject matter that they can't see the bigger designs and better motives that underlie it all

[GL]

I know it's not real exploitation based on what's been said about it, it just ties in the week thematically. Not that it won't work on it's own, but compared to what next week is about, there's a sense of a common thread repeated in the viewing.

[Canetoad]

Agreed. It is not exploitatyion at all... and bless their littel cotton socks Criterion are re-releasing it more us!!

www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=17

[GL]

Got through Salo yesterday, read what I thought in the just wactched thread.