On June 1, we'll kick off our fourth annual #Junesploitation, a month-long celebration of exploitation, grindhouse and genre movies.
If you read the site regularly or listen to our podcast, you know that these are the kinds of movies I live for and love. The reason this is my favorite month of the year (behind October, obvi) is because not only do I get to watch a bunch of crazy '70s and '80s drive-in movies, but I also get to live vicariously through all of you as you watch movies I know and love or insane titles I've never even heard of and can now add to my 'must-see' list. Everybody wins with Junesploitation!
Here's the deal: For every day in June, we've got a new exploitation category from which you can choose any movie you want. It doesn't even HAVE to be an exploitation movie! Maybe you don't like them as much as I do. That's ok! On June 1st, maybe you have no interest in seeing Carolyn Munroe run around in a black leather bikini in Starcrash for Sci-fi day. Maybe you're not alive! But maybe you want to watch 2001 or Star Wars or Total Recall or Fantastic Voyage. That counts! ANY science fiction movie counts! And there are SO MANY of those! JUNESPLOITATION!
After you watch the movie, head over to the comments section for that day and post a short review/reaction. Seriously -- short. Like, 50 words or less. That way, other readers can chime in with a "Hey, I've never heard of that movie and now I want to see it!" or a "If you liked that one, check out..." The idea is to keep the discussion flowing quickly and easily, so we can't get bogged down in huge epic write ups. In order to make sure that this happens, we're going to reserve the right to delete posts that willfully ignore this rule. We don't want to do that. Keep it short.
Here are this year's categories -- a mix of repeats from past years and a few BRAND NEW categories. There's something for everyone! And no Troma day, because we're not going through that again.
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2 - ‘90s Action!
3 - Slashers!
4 - Kung Fu!
5 - Zombies!
6 - Scream Queens!
7 - Cars!
8 - Free Space!
9 - Animals!
10 - Sexploitation!
11 - Masters of Horror!
12 - Blaxploitation!
13 - New Horror!
14 - Nazis!
15 - Free Space!
16 - Monsters!
17 - '80s Action!
18 - Teensploitation!
19 - Italian Horror!
20 - Westerns!
21 - Eco Horror!
22 - Free Space!
23 - Prison!
24 - War!
25 - Bugs!
26 - Revenge!
27 - Apocalypse!
28 - '80s Horror!
29 - Free Space!
30 - Cops!
Hail! Hail! Family issues kept me from really participating in Junesploitation last year, so I'm looking forward to this even more than usual. I hereby vow to only watch "new to me" movies, until I don't.
ReplyDeleteThank F'in God... it's finally here!
ReplyDeleteIt's the most...wonderful tiiiime of the year!!
ReplyDeleteHell yes!!!
ReplyDeleteYesssssssss!! All those s's make a snake sound because I'm excited to watch Rattlers for some fucking reason.
ReplyDeleteYay, a movie fest! Should be fun, never done one before, kinda scary stepping into the unknown! I hope it won't hurt.....
ReplyDeleteIt won't hurt!
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Yay, a movie fest! Should be fun, never done one before, kinda scary stepping into the unknown! I hope it won't hurt.....
ReplyDeleteGood times ahead, I like those choices, I'm looking forward to all of your short 50 word funny reviews
ReplyDeleteI might give 7 word reviews like SMM
I am giddy, giddy I tell you. I have been hoarding movies for months: Van Damn, Carpenter, Argento - oh my!
ReplyDeleteI love that you incorporated the Music Box's festival! I haven't actually participated in Junesploitation before because I usually hibernate (read: drink heavily) as soon as school's out. I'm gonna try to watch every day this year (except maybe the first, because The Harder They Come is playing...)
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited! Looking forward to spending some time this weekend planning movies around the themes. Plus, my repertory theater is doing a De Palma and a Sergio Leone series in June, so it's shaping up to be an excellent month.
ReplyDelete(Gasp) Where is this theatre??
DeleteIt's the Aero in Santa Monica.
DeleteI totally had a perfect Troma movie to recommend to F-Heads this year. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it? There are still free space days
DeleteNo Troma category so I'll never tell. :)
DeleteKidding - "There's Nothing Out There" (1991) I saw it a month or two ago and really dug it. It's not typical Troma, it's actually pretty smart and fun. Troma picked it up for distro on DVD so it wasn't a Troma studio film but I figured if Troma was a a catergory, people would be able to stomach this one.
The story behind the movie is really interesting. The director made it when he was 20, spent a couple years going door-to-door raising money and actually raised a bunch of money! It received a ton of love from the festivals and critics but then something happened where the film somehow became forgotten and not picked up by a studio. Years later a certain Horror film ripped off the idea in which that film became an instant classic of the genre. It's actually a pretty f-ed up story how this rip-off happened if you ever look into it.
Thanks I am going to try a seek it out. Truthly I was quietly releaved about no Trauma day (but at heart I am a wuss). But this looks interesting. Yes and I see the similarites. Thanks again!
DeleteNo problem. Believe it or not, I'm not a Troma fan either, for the most part. I grew up on Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High and I dig some of their others e.g. Bloodsucking Freaks but Troma has way too much crap in their catalog to filter through. Still, I love that they exist and understand their importance to the genre and indie filmmaking.
DeleteThat I agree with. I know I need to watch more to get more of a feeling, especially with indies, and There's Nothing Out There looks like a really good place to start.
DeleteThis looks amazing. There are so many horror days. Love it!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm working three jobs and have almost no free time to speak of 6 out of 7 days of the week (and the 7th I collapse and sleep all day to do it all over again the following week). But dang it, even cheating (i.e. watching two or three of these in a row, then saving the reviews until the appropriate day) I'm in like a screamin' queen. No way I'm missing #Junesploitation this year, though I do wish Patrick would treat it like Scary Movie Month and record a movie commentary for a grindhouse flick like he does one or two scary movies every October. Fair is far, and Junesploitation deserves an annual commentary track like SMM does. :-)
ReplyDeleteFourth Junesploitation for the site and the third one for me. "Forcing" myself to watch a movie a day for in a bunch of killer categories every day for a month? Nothing better ;)
ReplyDeleteI had just remembered this a few weeks ago, then forgotten about it, and now you've reminded me and I'm excited again - early-onset-dementiasploitation!
ReplyDeleteno retreat! no surrender!
ReplyDeleteHere's what I'll be watching... I hope I can get around to them all
ReplyDelete1 - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
2 - Face/Off
3 - The Burning
4 - Drunken Master 2
5 - The Living Deat At Manchester Morgue
6 - Terror Train
7 - Race With The Devil
8 - Sonny Boy
9 - Prophecy
10 - The Sexorcist
11 - Prince Of Darkness
12 - Coffy
13 - A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
14 - Cross of Iron
15 - Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary
16 - Godzilla
17 - Death Wish II
18 - Stage Fright
19 - Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key
20 - Keoma
21 - No Telling
22 - Pieces
23 - Papillon
24 - Inglorious Bastards (Original)
25 - Millenium Bug
26 - Thriller! A Cruel Picture
27 - The Rapture
28 - Cat People
29 - Motel Hell
30 - The French Connection II
These are all movies I've been meaning to see for a long time. Excited to have the opportunity and a community to report back to and discuss with.
Looks like a really solid list.
DeleteI'm still working on mine and I've hit a few dead spots with my blu-ray collection. Does anyone have any recommendations for Italian Horror, Eco Horror, or Prison that might be available to stream. Suggestions on disc are also appreciated, but my budget is a little limited.
If you're strapped for cash check out YouTube for some full-length Italian Horror uploads.
DeleteIn Hell is a Van Damme prison movie. I've never seen it, but I remember several people recommending it during Patrick's 24 hours of Van Damme write up. It's on Youtube.
DeleteTorso is a pretty good Italian horror. It's on Youtube as well.
Can't wait to mourn The Giggler.
ReplyDeleteThis will be my second go at Junesploitation! I hit movie fatigue not even eight days in last year and participated when I could, so here's hoping I can stick it out for all 30 days. My watch list is 80% populated (Free Spaces, Bugs, and Eco-Horror are still undecided) and subject to change. For those interested:
ReplyDelete1 - John Carpenter's The Thing
2 - Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
3 - Dust Devil
4 - Supercop
5 - Zoombies
6 - Scream 2
7 - Used Cars
8 -
9 - Graveyard Shift
10 - 24 Exposures
11 - Nightbreed: The Director's Cut
12 - Three the Hard Way
13 - He Never Died
14 - Private House of the SS
15 -
16 - The Relic
17 - Extreme Prejudice
18 - Class of Nuke'Em High
19 - Nightmare City
20 - The Long Riders
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22 -
23 - Undisputed
24 - Combat Shock
25 -
26 - The Crow
27 - Day of Resurrection (aka. Virus)
28 - Re-Animator
29 -
30 - Action Jackson
Netflix is really putting a dent in my long-term programming. A good deal of prime candidates for this shindig are expiring 6/1 (including Dust Devil, Supercop, and Undisputed). On the plus side I found some ideal picks for Bugs and Eco Horror.
DeleteAction Jackson is the shit! Perfect way to end the month.
DeleteIt most certainly is! When I first saw it I felt bad in the sense that I failed the '80s Action Litmus Test' for not totally digging it. Watching it last year I surrendered to its majestic lunacy.
DeleteOh dear, I'm struggling to get matches.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone done a YouTube backup list?
You know if for a certain day you can't find something personal you can jump over to YT?
Just an idea....
...or I could just use Gurgle I suppose.
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