"The exploitation movie has been around for a long, long time. There's even reason to believe that Thomas Edison might have been an O.G. pioneer in the field: his movie The Execution Of Mary Stuart, among the first ever made, features Mary, Queen Of Scots getting her head chopped off and literally nothing else.
But like anything that's been around for this long, it's become host to a number of subgenres, none of which are without merit. This list is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the exploitation movie; some of these movies — one in particular — aren't really exploitation movies at all, but clearly come from a similar set of preoccupations: namely, that the primary concern is to be as entertaining as goddamn possible.
So here they are: bikers, nurses, kung fu masters and psychic brains, aliens who bleed booze and even the Yeti himself, all coming together for your collective amusement."
