If you grew up in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you know there was no shortage of frugally made yet wildly enjoyable direct-to-video classics lining the walls of your local video store. I spent many a night renting these ...

I had been dreading it for days, but it was finally time to brave the supermarket again. Never in my forty-four years on the planet has grocery shopping been as menacing a prospect as it is these days, in the ...

I’ve been championing movies that others find appallingly bad for most of my life. So I feel comfortable saying with some authority that Lady Street Fighter (1981) is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Of course then, I absolutely love it. ...

The rape-revenge genre has long been one of the more prolific in exploitation cinema, yet out of the entire cannon, you’d be hard-pressed to find one more brutal, more unforgiving than Cirio H. Santiago’s Naked Vengeance (1985). The multiple traumas inflicted on ...

Two years after her erotic thriller exploitation masterpiece Stripped to Kill (1987), writer-director Katt Shea debuted a sequel that, in many ways, might be even better than the original. Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls (1989), which turns 30 this year, retains all of ...

I can’t be certain that Katt Shea’s sexploitation flick Stripped to Kill (1987) holds the record for most gratuitous butt shots, but it features so many of them in the first five minutes alone that I’m confident in declaring it ...