Looking for some "extreme" flicks

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by Ferox13

TENEMENT is another quintessential grindhouse film.

Fuckin' a! Thats a great watch. I love the gang orientated flicks like that. Class Of 1984 and Savage Streets are amazing too.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ

Grindhouse is not a subgenre. Grindhouse is a term used to describe the theatres where exploitation flicks screened.

Yes, I know it is the name for the type of theaters that showed exploitation flicks... But the term permeated through the horror culture as to describe the flicks themselves. There's the "Grindhouse" origin (the theaters) and then there's the permutation (the movies).

Originally Posted by Ferox13

Yup....

I think people now use the term 'Grindhouse' as they were never aware of types 70's exploitation films that played the Grindhouses and Drive ins...Grindhouses were (usually) the inner city flea pits - 42nd Street was a hotbed of em before the clean up of NYC. Drive-Ins are sorta their rural cousins. In their hayday, they both tended to show the same sort of films - cheap action/exploitaton/kung fu/WIP/horror etc often in double or triple bills.

Weirdly enough Planet Terror is more a homage/parody to the later Zombie genre which really wasn't a staple of Grindhouse/Drive in 's bills.

I know. The way I look at it is that "Grindhouse" described the cinemas at the time that showed these films and then later the term evolved to describe the films played in those cinemas.

I don't think that it's much of a leap to use "Grindhouse" to describe exploitation films of the 70s and 80s.

[Ferox13]

It all semantics for sure but one thing I never really noticed many people using the term 'Grindhouse' as a 'genre' until the film of the same name came out..

I think I first heard of the expression to discribe the flea pits of NYC when i first read Sleazoid Express back in the day....I never thought I'd get to see all that wonderful tripe back then :-)

[ChronoGrl]

Ahhhhhhh - Sorry - I assumed that "Grindhouse" was always referred to as a genre (even prior to the film). To tell you the truth, it was the film that introduced me to this term and those types of film. :o

So you know what happens when people assume...

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They get spanked.

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Ok, Ferox - Where's my spanking? ;)

[Ferox13]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

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Ok, Ferox - Where's my spanking? ;)

Yippee - Eric Stanton time:

[neverending]

That's a whipping, not a spanking.

[Ferox13]

Originally Posted by neverending

That's a whipping, not a spanking.

This thread is all about da sematics :)

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

To tell you the truth, it was the film that introduced me to this term and those types of film. :o

Someone's lived a sheltered life :p oh well lots of fun to be had introducing yourself to someof the classics.

[Staal]

This thread took an odd turn.

[Necromancer]

I think 'Cutting Moments' - A Family Portrait may be considered extreme.