The Frida Zinema Issue #10: Xploitation

For the tenth issue of The Frida Zinema we present Xploitation! Highlighting films from the underbelly of cinema and the “bottom-feeder” artists who dared to exploit society’s biggest taboos and moral fears. Often made with ultra low-budgets, riddled with sex, drugs, violence, and crime, and starring actors that never stood a chance in the mainstream, these films were labelled as “trash” cinema upon their release and are still considered as such to this day. For June’s edition of the zine we present a few cases for this mode of filmmaking and viewing to decide whether or not many of these films are worthy of the statue of true cinema!