I draw the line at the On The Buses movies but aside from that, I'm a sucker for them...

There's lots to tell.

What I find fascinating about Italian exploitation is the journeyman nature of the directors. They just go with the money and make pictures depending on what's in vogue.

Westerns in the 60s and early 70s, Giallo, until the bubble burst and ultra-right wing cop fantasties after Dirty Harry.

What makes the Cannibal films more interesting as a genre is the fact that they have no Hollywood or Mainstream hit to follow on from. Even the Nazi exploitation films had The Damned and The Night Porter to steal from and obviously Kenn Russell's The Devils probably had a lot to do with all those Lesbian Nun films.

The only precursors to the Cannibal movies might be the Mondo cycle, which traded on the same mixture of fascination with primitive ways and staged repulsion as a shock tactic.

Still plenty of scope for a more in depth piece. Link it back to mondo movies, etc

I love a good stupid mutant wildlife film. Frogs is a favourite and the parody of 50s radiation paranoia movies, The Giant Spider Invasion, is ridiculous.

They built a massive spider contraption on top of a car then drove it around. Genius!

I'm not one to beg, but this is a blog I'd like some comments on. Just some opinions about the music.

I knock them together using Garageband, a load of weird old records (in the case of the latter) and wobbly trippy downbeat electronic music. Then, I make little interludes myself by laying samples and snatches of oddball dialogue.

I think it's frenetic pace and sheer insanity that appeals inn Tetsuo. I love that in the film Electric Dragon 80000 Volts as well

Teenage hooker is a great film. I'm a big fan of the Cyberpunk stuff like Rubber's Lover and the Tetsuo films, The 80s gore stuff like Guinea Pig and Evil Dead Trap, but nothing beats the work done in the 60s (Kwaidan, etc) and the 70s exploitation stuff.

That was me, here's some more great music blogs...

WFMU Beware of the Blog
Funky 16 Corners
Versions Galore

Thanks for the good feedback!

I know, utterly repellent and it that respect a near perfect example of exploitation marketing. It doesn't sell on plot, performance or any of the usual things, just a total rollercoaster ride of vomit.

I'll take a set...