Exploitation Cinema | Mother of Movies
At Mother of Movies, Exploitation Cinema shines a light on the wild, the weird, and the wonderfully trashy. These are the films that push boundaries, ripping open taboos, reveling in shock, and often flipping a defiant middle finger to polished studio norms. Think sleaze, grindhouse grit, splatter fests, and lurid thrill rides designed to provoke, titillate, or outrage, sometimes all three.
This isn’t just style over substance. Exploitation films capture the undercurrents of fear, anger, sex, and rebellion, where low budgets meet high-impact audacity. Whether you’re diving into blood-soaked revenge (Mad Heidi), cult cannibal chaos (Pig Killer), or genre-bending absurdity (Bullets of Justice), our reviews unpack what makes these films unforgettable (and sometimes unforgivable).
🔪 Examples:
Pig Killer, Mad Heidi, Santa Jaws, Julia X, House Shark, Mope, Cocaine Shark
💥 Come for the chaos. Stay for the cultural commentary.
They/Them is an LGBTQ+ centric slasher movie set in a conversion camp and starring Kevin Bacon. Released to the Peacock streaming platform.
Mackenzie King biopic reimagined as comedy-drama movie. A Canadian roast of the political kind that parodies history in The Twentieth Century
Who had Toxic Alien Zombie Babes from Outer Space for November? Just when you thought you had seen everything. Australian horror & action.
Landmine Goes Click has all the makings of a tense & brutal action movie. Trapped on top of an explosive device, what would you do? Starring Spencer Locke.
The VelociPastor is a horror-comedy micro-budget film from Brendan Steere and you should see it. Find out where Velocipastor is streaming
Ron Carlson wrote & directed this comedy horror film starring Tom Arnold & Jake Busey. The Dead Ant movie aka Giant Killer Ants is streaming.
