This year marks our 14th year as a site and our 11th year of Junesploitation, our annual celebration of exploitation and genre films. What started as a selfish excuse for me to spend a few weeks watching '70s and '80s grindhouse fare has exploded into a yearly tradition with many, many participants both on our site and on social media. Thank you for that!!
If you do like those kinds of movies, though, or if you're willing to give them a shot, it's super easy to participate in Junesploitation thanks to streaming services. Netflix isn't a ton of help, but Amazon Prime Video and Tubi have a deep library of titles and there are a couple of streaming platforms (like Shudder and Screambox) devoted to just these kinds of movies. A few other streamers have a number of titles you might want to check out this month. And while I rarely advocate watching movies on YouTube, there's a lot of cool and obscure stuff to be found there if you're willing to look. Stay tuned for our annual Junesploitation Primer for help on where to find some good titles, though by now most of you know where to look.
This month is dedicated to the memory of Roger Corman, without whom there would be no Junesploitation. We have several days devoted to his work.
Here is this year's schedule, featuring a several new categories and some returning favorites:
1 - Roger Corman Tribute!
2- Zombies!
3 - Revenge!
4 - Free Space!
5 - ‘90s action!
6 - Paul Naschy!
7 - Buddy Cops!
8 - Kaiju!
9 - Kung Fu!
10 - Sharksploitation!
11 - Italian Horror!
12 - New World!
13 - Ozploitation!
14 - Beach!
15 - Free Space!
16 - Brucesploitation!
17 - Fulci!
18 - Gangsters!
19 - ‘80s Horror!
20 - Blaxploitation!
21 - AIP!
22 - 2000s Action!
23 - Free Space!
24 - Cars!
25 - Vigilantes!
26 - Free Space!
27 - Barbara Steele!
28 - Westerns!
29 - New Horizons!
30 - Slashers!
As always, thanks to Doug for the calendar design!
Hey, we're already planning to watch Piranha on the 1st with the friends. That's a good timing
ReplyDeleteI’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’ve been waiting months for this post! I’m ridiculously excited. I use this as an excuse to use our giant tube tv / vcr one month out of the year and watch VHS tapes out in the garage. Another year without a Charles Bronson Day, but I’ll just have to use some free spaces for that. And I had a fun Aliens! Double Feature lined up that will either wait until next year or be another free space. And you’re goddamned right I’m gonna fire up my recently purchased from Half Price Books Six Pack VHS for Cars! Day!! Guess I’ll have to dust of the old Twitter machine in 10 days….
ReplyDeleteOne of Roger Corman's early films is Machine Gun Kelly, which starred Charles Bronson back in 1958. It is on Tubi.
DeleteLETS F@#$ING GO!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is honestly one of my most anticipated days of every year.
ReplyDeleteSame. Getting this lineup then planning out the month is... real fun
DeletePlanning out a lineup, and then adjusting it when you see mini-reviews from what people are watching, is one of my favourite parts as well. I have a ton of recommendations from the past few years when I starting adding them to a list.
DeleteAwesome! Can't wait to see everyone's picks and compare notes!
ReplyDeletePaul Naschy!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am pleased to see him featured, too.
DeleteIts days like "Paul Naschy" day on the Junesploitation calendar that i love the most as he's totally off my radar. Gonna be fun to learn more about his flicks!!!
DeleteI'm in the same boat gonna need help from the primer on this one. Total blind spot for me.
DeleteHell yeah! Those are sexy prompts.
ReplyDeleteAnother exciting Junesploitation calendar!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely some horror connections with the actor choices. A little of Scary Movie Month in June is not a bad thing, but Naschy also ventured beyond horror a bit. Owning quite a few Naschy films, I welcome any opportunity to get to one I have not yet watched. By chance, I have a Barbara Steele film on my TV now (An Angel For Satan).
The goal this year is to watch as many films from my collection and DVR recordings as possible. The Arrow Gothic Fantastico box set just arrived, perfect for a new watch on Italian horror day. Looking at the list of films made by New Horizons, I realize that I also own some of those.
A question for clarification: For the 2000's Action day, is it films from the first decade of this century or all action films made since 2000?
ReplyDeleteI would say the latter! Great question!
DeleteI personally googled Movies 2000-2009
DeleteThanks so much for this! Looking over Corman's filmography, it seems like a lot of his films fit a lot of these categories. It's going to be fun movie times.
ReplyDeleteBruce Li and Bruce Le sure are hard to google.
In addition to this site, I'll be posting my Junesploitation goo on BluSky. Join us, won't we?
Which Bruce are we sploitating on the 16th?
ReplyDeleteLee? Willis? Campbell?
Brilliant! LOL.
DeleteDern? The Shark from Jaws? Almighty? Springstein? Hornsby? Boxleitner?
Most likely Bruce Lee.
DeleteI'd love a Campbell Bruceploitation but he'd do it himself.
DeleteBruceploitation has always been the explosion of Bruce Lee clones after his death. There's even a dick The Clones of Bruce Lee on the way
I initially assumed the theme was the Bruce Lee knock-offs that were recently discussed on the pod. Not sure though.
DeleteDoco not dick
ReplyDeleteYay! My favourite month of the year. I can't wait, even though I'm going to be a little more relaxed this year and have fun with it, rather than stressing about watching a movie a day.
ReplyDeletePaul: I think I am gonna plan for a couple weekend double or triple features!
DeleteGoing to need some clarification on New Horizons day.
ReplyDeleteThere is a link to movie suggestions for New Horizon on today's Juneploitation Primer post: http://www.fthismovie.net/2024/05/your-2024-junesploitation-primer.html#more
DeleteThere are at least a couple on Tubi.
I was looking at this list, too, Joe. https://hammerhouseofhorror.fandom.com/wiki/New_Horizons
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