Irish exploitation films,a genre?

darkdubh

Over the last few years theres been quite a lot of films made in Ireland that could be classified as low budget,usually horror or horror comedies and not too intellectualy taxing.Boy Eats Girl,Grabbers,Shrooms et all.They can be traced even further back to the likes of Fatal Deviation,that no budget Martial arts movie from the late 90s.Can anyone think of any more examples?So what do we call this genre.I think Micksploitation would be a good one,in honour of Blaxploitation or Ozploitation,a term Quention Tarentino coined for similar Aussie movies from the 70s and 80s.

Ralf and Florian

We can thank Rodger Corman for getting the ball rolling with his Connemara Sci-Fi schlock epics where Fair City actresses got their tits out.

Greenmachine

Confused by your post. Surely exploitation movies are things like bum fight, fight to the death etc, can't imagine why you would include boy eats girl in your post.

Harry Palmr

Taffin!

Ageyev

Exploitation is a film genre or sub-genre. Typically cheap, cheesy and tacky. Some admire the charm but it's a kind of retro thing. The likes of Sharknado and Human Centipede could be considered exploitation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_film

darkdubh

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Taffin!

Good call.I'd include Man About Dog,Accelerator and Reefer And The Model as well in the non horror variety.

Bipolar Joe

How could you make a thread like this and not have mentioned, or possibly heard of, Dead Meat or Isolation?

AnonoBoy

Darkdubh - I think you're mixing widely varied films.

Grabbers was by no means a low budget exploitation film - it had a decent enough budget as far as I recall.

Likewise Man About Dog is a comedy and doesn't have any of the hallmarks of exploitation about it.

Taffin isn't exploitation either - it's just a naff thriller. Hilariously naff I'll grant but not exploitation.

I think the only collective term that could tie all the films listed together wild be Irish Genre Films. And even that's a stretch.

darkdubh

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Darkdubh - I think you're mixing widely varied films.

Grabbers was by no means a low budget exploitation film - it had a decent enough budget as far as I recall.

Likewise Man About Dog is a comedy and doesn't have any of the hallmarks of exploitation about it.

Taffin isn't exploitation either - it's just a naff thriller. Hilariously naff I'll grant but not exploitation.

I disagree,many comedies can fall under the exploitation movie tag.Man About Dog had a lot of elements that were included to appeal to a particular type of male viewer,kind of Irish version of rednecks to put it bluntly.It also featured another element that's almost a sub-Irish Movie exploitation theme,that of travellers.King Of The Travellers fits neatly into this sub genre which often features the same small group of actors playing identical parts.Low budget crime films like Between The Canals also have an exploitation movie vibe.

darkdubh

Greenmachine wrote: »

Confused by your post. Surely exploitation movies are things like bum fight, fight to the death etc, can't imagine why you would include boy eats girl in your post.

See Ageyevs post.

AnonoBoy

darkdubh wrote: »

I disagree,many comedies can fall under the exploitation movie tag.Man About Dog had a lot of elements that were included to appeal to a particular type of male viewer,kind of Irish version of rednecks to put it bluntly.It also featured another element that's almost a sub-Irish Movie exploitation theme,that of travellers.King Of The Travellers fits neatly into this sub genre which often features the same small group of actors playing identical parts.Low budget crime films like Between The Canals also have an exploitation movie vibe.

Between the Canals might (I haven't seen it) but I don't see Man About Dog as an exploitation film any more than say The Hangover is.

And Man About Dog had a decent budget and production values too - that'd also work against it. It did massively well at the Irish box office too (despite being sh*te).

darkdubh

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

How could you make a thread like this and not have mentioned, or possibly heard of, Dead Meat or Isolation?

I was going to get round to both of them.Dead Meat in particular seems to have sparked the trend in Irish horror films in the last decade.

AnonoBoy

darkdubh wrote: »

I was going to get round to both of them.Dead Meat in particular seems to have sparked the trend in Irish horror films in the last decade.

Now Dead Meat definitely falls under the exploitation tag. As would Stitches I think.

darkdubh

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Between the Canals might (I haven't seen it) but I don't see Man About Dog as an exploitation film any more than say The Hangover is.

And Man About Dog had a decent budget and production values too - that'd also work against it. It did massively well at the Irish box office too (despite being sh*te).

It features travellers with chainsaws,chase scenes,broad comedy,animals being killed or tormented, sex scenes and yes it was ****e.It had exploitation comedy written all over it.And it didn't really travel outside of Ireland.It did well in the box office here but a lot of movies classified as exploitation do very well in a specific home market.

AnonoBoy

darkdubh wrote: »

It features travellers with chainsaws,chase scenes,broad comedy,animals being killed or tormented, sex scenes and yes it was ****e.It had exploitation comedy written all over it.And it didn't really travel outside of Ireland.It did well in the box office here but a lot of movies classified as exploitation do very well in a specific home market.

You have a much better memory of it than I do seemingly! I just remember being bored!

darkdubh

Strength And Honour is another example.I admit to my shame that I auditioned as an extra,didn't get it but my buddy with me did.

donaghs

Does "Raw Head Rex" count as one? Worth a watch!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091829/

darkdubh

donaghs wrote: »

Does "Raw Head Rex" count as one? Worth a watch!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091829/

Nice one,it deffo influenced a lot the recent crop of similar themed films.

Banjaxed82

People are just naming films here and calling them exploitation flicks. Isolation, Dead meat, Stitches are horror films to me. Nothing more.

When I think of exploitation, the word "nasty" comes to mind. Most exploitation films traditionally have a nasty underbelly. Morally nasty, usually in conjunction with quite visceral violence. The violence can be played for laughs, but it's usually nasty violence regardless.

Hande hoche!

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Taffin!

That's what immediately came to mind when I read the title.

AnonoBoy

Hande hoche! wrote: »

That's what immediately came to mind when I read the title.

Taffin isn't an exploitation flick though.

Hande hoche!

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Taffin isn't an exploitation flick though.

You're probably right. It feels like one, that shabbiness.

AnonoBoy

Hande hoche! wrote: »

You're probably right. It feels like one, that shabbiness.

Oh it's class alright! But not crass enough to really be exploitation I don't think.

Bipolar Joe

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

People are just naming films here and calling them exploitation flicks. Isolation, Dead meat, Stitches are horror films to me. Nothing more.

When I think of exploitation, the word "nasty" comes to mind. Most exploitation films traditionally have a nasty underbelly. Morally nasty, usually in conjunction with quite visceral violence. The violence can be played for laughs, but it's usually nasty violence regardless.

I think the films do exactly what the name of the genre says, exploit the stereotype. It doesn't have to be nasty (Fight For Your Life), it can explode the stereotypes for effect (Putney Swope).

LiamNeeson

Put me in one and it'll be a worldwide success guys

darkdubh

Now this is an example of something that the makers thought was profound but has B-movie written all over it.Best to skip through it to the fight scenes and more surreal bits.

conorhal

I don't know that there's that many such that you could classify it as a genre, but top of the list for me is Rawhead Rex: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091829/?ref_=nv_sr_1
An off the wall, occasionally creepy, occasionally hilarious adaption of a Clive Barker tale.

jh79

"It came from Connemara "

Is a good documentary about Roger Corman's studio in Spiddall.

darkdubh

This is a very early one (1970).I remember they showed a few clips of it on Blizzard Of Odd,in that section where they used to focus on obscure Irish movies.It looked like a weirdly Irish take on the sexpolitation films that were coming out of England in the late 60s early 70s.There was a weird scene where the sexually repressed main female character was hallucinating that her parish priest was getting his kit off in front of her.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179509/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

darkdubh

jh79 wrote: »

"It came from Connemara "

Is a good documentary about Roger Corman's studio in Spiddall.

On TG4 now.

darkdubh

I forgot about this one, there was kind of a buzz about it at the time it came out, it even featured on the cover of Film Ireland. I remember seeing it in The Kino Cinema in Cork circa 97.


http://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/the-eliminator-1117341454/