![]() ![]() Today we’ll look at three such underseen gems of the 70’s, all currently available on Amazon Prime. ![]() Some saw instant notoriety, like The Last House on the Left (1972), whereas some treasures have yet to get the discovery and cult following they deserve (I’m doing my part by recommending Don’t Go in the House, below). ![]() Just before the major studios began paying attention to (and capitalizing on) the slasher subgenre in the 1980s, the decade prior saw an exponential increase in creativity (budget be damned) and taboo-pushing in the American exploitation film. ![]() But as Nightmare USA posits, variety is the spice of life, and low-budget genre pictures provide the fiery sauce to complement Hollywood’s vanilla fare. Prestige cinema has always been easy enough to find in North America the big dogs present a plethora of films annually to a public that doesn’t question their value or pedigree. In his biblical tome Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents, author Stephen Thrower likens exploitation films to “the uncultivated countryside of the American landscape, where weeds and flowers grow alike more freely,” as opposed to the more sterile laboratory environment of Hollywood. ![]()
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