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The genre follows two earlier ones that also dealt with car-related topics popular in youth culture at their respective times: In the 1950s, films featuring Hot Rods became very popular, and they were followed by motorcycle films in the 1960s (for example, The Wild Angels and Easy Rider).
An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies", [1] though some set trends, attract critical attention, become historically important, and even gain a cult following. [2]
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Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. [3] It focuses on a disaffected ex-policeman and race car driver delivering a muscle car cross-country to California while high on speed ("uppers" in the story), being chased by police, and meeting various characters along the way.
Drive Angry (alternatively titled Drive Angry 3D) [3] is a 2011 American action horror film in the exploitation cinema tradition, directed by Patrick Lussier, who co-wrote it with Todd Farmer. The film stars Nicolas Cage , Amber Heard , William Fichtner , Billy Burke , Charlotte Ross , Katy Mixon , and Tom Atkins .
Grindhouse is a 2007 American double bill.It consists of two films, Planet Terror, a horror comedy written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Death Proof, a slasher film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.
The character is played, in all three “Terrifier” movies, by David Howard Thornton, an actor who disappears into his costume: white make-up and hook nose and bald clown head cover, black ...
Mark Lester said, "My movies were always harking back to exploitation movies of the '40s and '50s" and that he was particularly inspired by White Heat (1949). "When she runs around the cattle truck shooting her gun off in that scene, I was thinking of the scene where James Cagney is shooting off the gun in the trunk of the car."