Your 2017 Junesploitation Primer

by Patrick Bromley

These next 30 days are going to change you as a person.

We're just one day away from our fifth annual Junesploitation, and the amount of excitement for I've already seen on this site and elsewhere on social media has been incredibly rewarding and encouraging. It's a month-long holiday that we completely made up and that a whole bunch of people are seriously looking forward to celebrating. That's so cool!

Many of you have already been posting the lineups of what you've got on deck for this month, and I'm super jealous of what an incredible 30 days of movie watching you're going to have. For those of you who are unsure of what to check out, this primer is here to give you some ideas.

As I mentioned in the original Junesploitation announcement, there are now a ton of streaming services from which to choose titles: Shudder, Full Moon Streaming, Exploitation.TV, Brown Sugar, Shout! Factory TV, plus the usual Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video, which offers a LOT of kung fu, horror and exploitation in their library. Also check out Shaw Brothers Universe, which is a great resource to tell you where hundreds of amazing kung fu films are available to stream. The Grindhouse Cinema Database offers hundreds of titles broken up by genre, so that one's good. Then there's Daily Grindhouse, a site fully devoted to the kinds of movies we celebrate during Junesploitation that features excellent writing from our own A.M. Novak and our friends Albert Muller and Jason Coffman.

But honestly, the best place to look is in the reviews posted during the last four Junesploitations (found here, here, here and here). You have all written some great summaries of crazy movies and made them sound so much fun that I often go back and comb through the comments to find stuff to watch even when it's not June. Sure, it requires a little more digging, but this is where a lot of the gems are. And, of course, I'll be recommending titles for each category every Friday in I Stream, You Stream.

The links below will take you to some recommendations of titles from each day's category. If you're new to Junesploitation, please remember that you do not need to watch a movie off of any of these lists (except for the ones with a finite number of titles like Code Red and Video Nasties). These are just here to give you some ideas, but you're free to pick any movie you want that you feel fits into a given category.

1 - Aliens!
2- '80s Action!
3 - Revenge!
4 - Cars!
5 - Burtsploitation!
6 - Free Space!
7 - Slashers!
8 - Cops!
9 - Blaxploitation!
10 - Kung Fu!
11 - Animals!
12 - Lethal Ladies!
13 - '80s Horror!
14 - Sybil Danning!
15 - Free Space!
16 - Westerns!
17 - Italian Horror!
18 - Code Red!
19 - Killer Kids!
20 - Sci Fi!
21 - Free Space!
22 - Video Nasties!
23 - Barbara Crampton!
24 - Zombies!
25 - Teenagers!
26 - '90s Action!
27 - New Horror!
28 - '80s Comedy!
29 - Free Space!
30 - Monsters!

Look for lots of cool Junesploitation content and maybe even extra Junesploitation podcasts all month long, featuring special guests and more! I couldn't possibly be more excited.

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