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{{quote|''It's almost as if this movie is some kind of exploitative piece, that likes showing violence and naked women for no reason whatsoever. There really should be a name for this genre. Exploit...? Exploitate...? Ahh, I'll think of it later.''|'''[[
A film which focuses on morbid elements a lot, the type of morbid elements that fascinate or excite people. For example, a crime movie which focuses more on the details of committing the crime or its effects on the victim, rather than the efforts to solve it. Or a movie that's excessively violent for no real reason. In fact, that - excessive violence or sexuality - seems to be the main definition of an exploitation film.
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* ''[[Grindhouse]]'' was an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the exploitation films of the 1970s.
* ''The Child Bride'' was a rather infamous one back in the day. It was ''supposed'' to be an indictment of irregular marriage laws in the Appalachian Mountains. So why the extended scene of a naked 12-year old girl going swimming?
** This one is infamous for being a movie the [[
* ''Teenage Mother'', everything that ''[[Juno]]'' was not.
* ''[[Men Behind the Sun]]'', a Chinese film about the war crimes of [[Imperial Japan]]'s infamous Unit 731, which blurs the lines between exploitation & docudrama. Which is quite appropriate, considering it's about a bunch of people who made their living not so much blurring the line between scientific research & sadistic torture, as [[Metaphorgotten|injecting horse urine into its kidneys & feeding it to its cellmate...]]
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** It may be that exploitation films are what [[Film Noir]] evolved into, since Noir represented the first push against the restrictions of the [[Hays Code]], and exploitation films broke the Hays Code down completely. Exploitation films tended to deal with material [[Incredibly Lame Pun|much darker even than Noir]].
* [[The Untold Story]] is a supposedly true story about a restaurant owner who killed a family (and a few employees) and fed them to his customers.
* Current exploitation films tend to be very tongue-in-cheek and revel in the genre. Such examples include ''[[Machete]]'', ''[[Hobo
* Many of [[The Asylum]]'s movies, especially the horror rip-offs, would fit right in here, to the point that they wouldn't seem ''that'' out of place playing in a 70's Grindhouse theater. This is largely due to them being direct to DVD, and therefore able to get away with a lot more sex and violence than the movies they're ripping off.
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