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White Zombie (1932) the first Zombie Movie.

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Exploitation films are alternatives to traditional classic films. Exploitation films show sex, violence, drugs, nudity, and gore.  Teenagers in the past would go and see two movies for the price of one.  While parents were working, teenagers were spending their parents' money going to the movies to see exploitations movies.  

Hildegard Esper and Dwain Esper are husband and wife film directors and producers who made some of the most exploitative movies back in the 1930s such as Narcotic, Maniac, Marijuana, and How to Undress Your Husband.  The Hays Code did not like any of their movies and not even MPPDA.  Back in the 1930s exploitation movies were looked down upon.    In 1933 the movie Ecstasy with Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr got movie goers attention to see her nude in the movie.

Hildegard Esper and Dwain Esper are husband and wife film directors and producers who made some of the most exploitative movies back in the 1930s such as Narcotic, Maniac, Marihuana, and How to Undress Your Husband.  The Hays Code did not like any of their movies and not even MPPDA.  Back in the 1930s exploitation movies were looked down upon.   

Zombies

White Zombie was considered the first movie to use the word Zombie.  It’s not a flesh-eating zombie movie but about mind controlling slaves. The film was inspired from Haitian culture where voodoo is one of the religions.  Revolt of the Zombie from 1936 is a sequel but was not a hit like White Zombie.  In 1936, another Zombie film, The Walking Dead is not about flesh eating but is a crime drama. 

Small independent film studios made zombie movies taking risk.

Producer Val Lewton, fresh off his success with Cat People (1942), filmed his next movie I Walked with a Zombie (1943). It was another Zombie movie not about flesh eating.  The plot concerns a man whose wife is a sleepwalker, and she can’t wake up.  Zombies on Broadway (1945) failed and Get Along Little Zombie was made for laughs and not taken seriously.  

War World II ended, and the economy had recovered from the depression and the war.  Drive- in movie theaters were popular for families having a fun experience.  Zombie movies were not taken seriously, they were made for teenagers.  Teenage zombie movies were made on a small budget and were made rapidly.  These movies today are looked upon as metaphors for the early stages of the Cold War. People were afraid of being infiltrated and nuked by the Russians.

The Creature from the Atom Brain (1955) was directed by Edward L. Cahn and reflects on early influence of atomic bomb anxiety on sci-fi horror flicks.  Because of the booming economy, teenagers had money saved from their allowance or got part time jobs to go to the movies with friends or borrow their parents car to take their girlfriend to the movies.

1957 Hammer British studios released The Quatermass 2

Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of the worst movies ever made.  It was horror icon Bela Lugosi's last movie he died during production of the movie.   

1960s

The 1960’s independent horror movies were beginning to change the horror industry.  It attracted a lot of young teenage audiences at the time.  Teenagers changed but so did Zombie movies.  Classic horror monsters from the past were no longer considered scary.  Zombies' movies became psychedelic, weirder, and goofy.  By the end of the decade Night of the Living Dead was groundbreaking and changing the Zombie Subgenre.

In 1968 George Romeros Night of the Living Dead changed was groundbreaking for Zombie movies considered to be the first ever flesh-eating Zombie movie.  Despite the title they are not referred to as Zombies.  Social commentary on racism and Vietnam was going on at the time of the movie's release.  This was appealing to audiences at the time of its release.  Because many people were opposed to the Vietnam War.  George Romero was inspired from Richard Mattheson 1954 novel I Am Legend.  Romero’s movie was a very graphic, gross-out movie for its time.  

George Romero makes sequels to his Night of the Living with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.

By the turn of the 21^st Century, Zombie movies became popular from being inspired by George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.  28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake were about incurable diseases.  

2010 The Walking Dead TV Show was popular Zombie TV show in AMC.

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2000s

In the 1960s Roger Cormandirected Edgar Allen Poe B horror movies with well-known horror veteran movie actors with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and a very young and unknown Jack Nicholson. He turned down directing Easy Rider which was directed by Dennis Hopper.

In Blaxploitation horror movies back in the 1970’s, despite the leading stars in those movies being black, some of these movies were either produced, edited, or directed by white filmmakers.  Blackula, a well-known Blaxploitation horror movie, was directed by an African American filmmaker named William Crain.  Blackula was one of the first early successful blaxploitation horror movies.  Ganja and Hess stars Duane Jones who played Ben in Night of the Living Dead.  This movie has political and social commentary. The Vampires are a metaphor for capitalism.

Russ Meyer was a famous well known and founder of Sexploitation movies in the 1960s.  With movies like Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill from 1965

In the 1970’s Lesbian Erotic Sex was questioned on the political social implications of lesbianism about women's sexuality.  To this day it's still a concern of feminist film criticism.  Some critics have pointed out lesbians on screen sex are a clear expression of chauvinism and male power as the images are portrayed for male pleasure.  

Black Christmas was first Canadian movie to break the American market.   It was the only film being shot in Canada at the time.  It was also their final opportunity to produce their first blockbuster hit. The film was marketed for women and teenage girls.  It’s debatable that MPAA-members became less interested in targeting female audiences compared to previous decades.  The subplot of the character Jess played by Olivia Hussey wanting an abortion may have struck a chord for American women since abortion was a hotbed issue.  Black Christmas was a success in Canada but was not a hit in the USA.  In later years the film became and developed into a cult classic.  Halloween’s success overshadowed Black Christmas.  Halloween is misunderstood as the first slasher movie which is not true.  John Carpenter was inspired by Bob Clark’s Black Christmas.

has rarely been considered psychopharmacology.   The novel written by Anthony Burgess’s is most well-known and memorable for its Bristish texts about youth and counterculture.  In the Stanley Kubrick movie from 1971, the famous iconic scene when Alex is strapped to a chair his eyes are wide open, he is forced to watch horror of the holocaust and World War II footage.  Author Anthony Burgess defined that moment as the Ludovico treatment. It was a neurological intervention that used behavioral conditioning and psychopharmacology to prevent the subject from committing violent crimes.  "A Clockwork Orange" speaks to the audience of the dominant culture and counterculture.  The novel and movie delve into the neuroscience and cultural effects of War World II, reflecting reactionary politics of fear based on disciplinary neuroscience.  

Joe Bob Briggs Drive in Movie theaters were very popular for showing exploitation movies. Despite some of the movies were bad his recommendation was check it out.  

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Despite earlier in the semester, I wanted to edit the article on Blair Witch Project groundbreaking internet viral campaign I've changed my mind and kept an open minded on other possible film topics to talk about in this class. Articles on the Blair Witch Project were fully written well and there was not much I could find on the director of The Blair Witch Project. This may not still be a hundred percent yet but here are my top 10 scholarly resources to use on the possibility of re-editing an article on exploitation in film. There is also a possibility I will look into the Wikipedia article on Covid Impact on Film how the Corona Virus Pandemic had impact on filmmaking and movie theaters had to close and shut down because of how bd the virus was. This one has been a little tricky on to find scholarly articles on because we are still living in this time period and still not a lot of history on that. It amazes me and shocks me that article is in need for room for improvement.

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10.) Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film on JSTOR (esc.edu)

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