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Exploitation Gold

posted 11 years ago by JessePomeroy
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Just saw this for the first time. I hadn't even heard of it til a friend told me about it last week. This is beyond awesome, if you love low rent rural 70's exploitation. It felt like a cross between a whole host of independent films from that period, many already mentioned, but I'd like to also add the stylings of S.F. Brownrigg into the mix of inspirations I see here.

The one single thing that would have sent this movie into the stratosphere of modern exploitation films, is if they had the budget to process and treat the film to look like 16mm film stock. That would have been glorious.

I'm actually surprised to come to the message board and see so little chat about it. Oh well, they have a fan for life in this cretin.

[–] ElectricWarlock 11 years ago

I just finished watching it as well. I heard people call it a modern day version of The Legend of Boggy Creek (which is one of my favorite films) and of course there was the fact that Kim Henkel was involved, so both of those things together intrigued me and made me want to watch it right away. I was not disappointed whatsoever. I was surprised to see the film was made on a $7,000 budget. You can't even tell. There are some films made for millions and millions of dollars that aren't even this good. It just goes to show you that just because a movie costs more to make doesn't make it better. Creativity and imagination is what makes a film good and this film had plenty of both.

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