Monday, June 1, 2020

Your 2020 Junesploitation Primer

by Patrick Bromley
A month of cinematic insanity kicks off today!

The world needs #Junesploitation right about now. Things are grim. We're all trapped indoors, looking for some means of escape. What better way to try and forget our troubles, however briefly, than by losing ourselves in the weird, wild world of exploitation and genre movies?

This will be the eighth year we've run Junesploitation, and it has become an essential part of our annual calendar at F This Movie!. What started as an excuse to watch some trashy movies has expanded into a full-blown month-long party, and it's all because of your enthusiasm and participation. You all are the best.
Several of you have already made your Junesploitation viewing lists and even published them in some cases, which is awesome. The level of excitement we see online for this goofy made-up holiday is genuinely awesome and makes the whole thing so much more fun. If you aren't yet sure what you want to watch -- or you aren't sure what certain categories mean -- this primer should hopefully help you explore the weird and wonderful world of exploitation movies.

As mentioned in the original Junesploitation announcement, there are a ton of streaming services from which to choose titles: Shudder, Night FlightFull Moon Streaming, Brown Sugar, Shout! Factory TV, plus free sites that have large libraries like TubiTV, as well as the usual Netflix (which is pretty worthless for anything but Netflix-produced content these days, though some newer horror films can be found there), Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video, a true GOLD MINE with hundreds of kung fu, horror, and exploitation films available 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 if you're ever feeling stuck on a certain category.
As always, we're providing a collection of links (below) that will take you to some recommendations of titles from each day's category. If you're new to Junesploitation, please know 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 Jackie Chan or Lucio Fulci). 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. Remember, the whole point is it have an awesome time and watch a lot of movies, so be sure to make it fun for yourself and watch what you want to watch.

1 - Cars!
2 - Revenge!
3 - Italian Horror!
4 - Animals!
5 - Sci-Fi!
6 - Jackie Chan!
7 - Free Space!
8 - ‘80s Action!
9 - Slashers!
10 - Cops!
11 - Blaxploitation!
12 - Kung Fu!
13 - Free Space!
14 - Sword and Sorcery!
15 - Westerns!
16 - Kids!
17 - Lucio Fulci!
18 - Cannon!
19 - ‘80s Horror!
20 - Prison!
21 - Free Space!
22 - Giallo!
23 - Teenagers!
24 - ‘90s Action!
25 - Albert Pyun!
26 - Zombies!
27 - Lethal Ladies!
28 - Nic Cage!
29 - Free Space!
30 - ‘80s Comedy!

See you on the other side!

10 comments:

  1. Neflix and Hulu selections are underwhelming for the month's theme, but there are a few if you're willing to dig deep. I'm making it a point to throw in a few Netflix and Hulu titles into my Junesploitation! Affirmative Action viewing selections. I can't rely solely on Tubi, YouTube and Prime for the whole month! :-D

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  2. A few movies I've enjoyed in previous Junesploitations are easily found on YouTube if anyone's so inclined:

    The Stuff (1985) - 80's horror/sci-fi/comedy
    Sweet Sixteen (1983) - 80's horror/slashers
    Raiders of Atlantis aka Atlantis Interceptors - 80's action/sci-fi
    Welcome to Blood City - sci-fi/Westerns
    Primal Impulse aka Footprints on the Moon - Giallo (mystery rather than horror)
    Morons from Outer Space - 80's comedy/sci-fi
    The Dragon Lives Again aka Deadly Hands of Kung Fu - kung fu (crazy movie about Bruce Lee in the afterlife)
    Amok Train aka Behind the Door III - Italian horror
    TC 2000 - 90's action/sci-fi/Canuxploitation
    Prisoners of the Lost Universe - 80's action/sci-fi
    Joysticks (1983) - 80's comedy

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  3. 1 - Cars! Hot rod gang/death proof/vanishing point
    2 - Revenge! - deadbeat by dawn
    3 - Italian Horror! The church
    4 - Animals!
    5 - Sci-Fi! The shape of things to come/war of the robots
    6 - Jackie Chan!
    7 - Free Space! Orgy of the dead
    8 - ‘80s Action!
    9 - Slashers! Knife/heart
    10 - Cops! La crackdown 2
    11 - Blaxploitation! The baron/black trash/black fist/lord Shango/bamboo gods/the bad bunch
    12 - Kung Fu! Thunderbolt fist/one armed...
    13 - Free Space!
    14 - Sword and Sorcery!
    15 - Westerns! Naked kiss/China 9/blood money/solver saddle
    16 - Kids!
    17 - Lucio Fulci! - contraband
    18 - Cannon! - rescue me/breakin 2/delta force
    19 - ‘80s Horror! Street trash?
    20 - Prison! Caged heat, scorpion 07
    21 - Free Space!
    22 - Giallo! The strange vice
    23 - Teenagers!
    24 - ‘90s Action!
    25 - Albert Pyun!
    26 - Zombies!
    27 - Lethal Ladies!
    28 - Nic Cage!
    29 - Free Space!
    30 - ‘80s Comedy!

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  4. For the past few years this has been fun escapism. This year, it's essential. Thanks guys! This looks huge already based on the other comments.

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  5. Just got my Jackie Chan double feature from Twilight Time (RIP), right on time for Saturday!

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  6. The Criterion channel just posted a whole bunch of Jackie Chan- doesn't look like anything surprising for his die hards (Police Story, 78 Drunken Master, My Lucky Stars), but if you have the artsy streaming service, they always have gorgeous prints. I don't think I've seen Fearless Hyena, I'll probably check that out.

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  7. Friday night, 36 Chambers is Livestreaming Mystery of Chessboxing with live commentary from RZA and Dan. I've caught both of the streams so far and felt they were absolutely worth the price of admission.

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  8. I try to use Junesploitation as a means to go through my ever-increasing unwatched Blu Ray collection. Who else does that?

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    1. Absolutely. About half of the movies I've watched have been previously unwatched BD's and DVD's, the other half from streaming services.

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