Episode 005: What Are Your Limits? The Dark Waters of Exploitation and Extreme Cinema

Warning: Explicit content. What are your limits?  Surely there are some types of horror movies that you will not watch.  Or are there?  There has always been an audience for the disturbing and unsettling image. And there's an intimate relationship between the violence and sensationalism shown in Underground Movies and the anxieties of our culture. In this episode I discuss Exploitation Films and Extreme Horror: its history starting with Thomas Edison's first experiments with the movie camera through the Grindhouse Era to Modern Horror Cinema.  If you like the show, please consider writing a review on iTunes.  It really helps.  Thanks a lot for listening.    You can now subscribe to the Hellbent for Horror podcast now available on iTunes and Stitcher   iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hellbent-for-horror/id1090978706 Stitcher link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hellbent-for-horror?refid=stpr   For you, the listeners of Hellbent for Horror, Audible is offering a free audiobook download with a free 30-day trial to give you the opportunity to check out their service. To download your free audiobook today, go to: http://www.audibletrial.com/HellbentForHorror Movies Discussed: Frailty L.I.E. Dead Girl Friday the 13th Last House on the Left Fred Ott's Sneeze The Kiss Charmion's Trapeze Strip-Tease The Execution of Czolgosz Electrocuting an Elephant Birth of a Nation Intolerance Maniac (1934) Violated Scum of the Earth Psycho Faces of Death Blood Feast Mondo Cane Snuff American Guinea Pig Re-Animator Videodrome Martyrs (2008) Inside Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Cannibal Holocaust Audition Pink Flamingos Last House on Dead End Street My Sweet Satan August Underground   Books: "The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead..." by Adam Rockoff   #ExtremeHorrorCinema #ExploitationFilms #SplatterFilms #Mondo #Grindhouse #HardcoreHorror  #VideoNatsies #GonzoHorror #TorturePorn #ThrillKillFilms #Splattercore  #DeathFilm #AsianExtreme  #FrenchExtreme #CAT III #SnuffFilms   This is S.A. Bradley, and I'm a life-long horror lover. This podcast combines horror history, personal observations, common themes, and cultural trends to tell a story with each episode.  Here we talk about all things horror. Horror movies, books, comics, hosts, conventions.  The door swings wide here, and all types of horror are welcome.  Each episode covers some aspect of horror with lots of viewing or reading suggestions for you to check out.  I want to start conversations with people about all types of horror.  I've been a fan all my life, and I love all the different styles: Classic Universal Monsters, Slasher Films, Found Footage, French Extreme, Asian Extreme, Korean Ghost Stories, J-Horror, Hammer Horror Films, Amicus Films, Glass Eye Pix, EC Horror Comics, Creature Features, Horror Hosts, Italian Zombie movies, Spanish Zombie movies, George Romero Zombie movies, Giallo, Silent Horror Films, Nature Run Amok, Atomic Age Horror, Roughies, Exploitation, Horror Literature, Serial Killer, Halloween, B-Movie, Splatter films, ghost stories, Folk Horror, supernatural, body horror, torture porn, VHS, Psycho