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• A Fistful of Dollars

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• Pornochanchada

• Pinku eiga(Pink Film)

• Dyxploitation (dyke)

• Hixploitation (hick)

• Cat III

• Teensploitation

• Rape / Revenge

• Martial arts film

• Slasher film

• Revenge films

• Propaganda film

• Mexploitation

• Carsploitation

• Eschploitation (eschatology)

• Britsploitation

• Action film - Ozploitation

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Cannibal films

Cannibal films, otherwise known as the cannibal genre, are a collection of graphic, gory movies made in the early 1970s on into the late 1980s, primarily by Italian moviemakers.

These movies mainly focused on torture and cannibalism by Stone-Age tribes deep in the South American or Asian rain forests, usually perpetrated against Westerners that the tribes hold prisoner.

Similar to Mondo films, the main draw of cannibal films was the promise of exotic locales and graphic gore. Like the jungle adventure movies (popular in the '50s-'60s) and the Mondo shockumentaries (popular in the '60s-'70s) that came before them, these movies were often released under various alternate titles by their distributors, often capitalizing on their more successful US inspirations.

These films are also notorious for their animal killings, featuring scenes with animals eating prey and also the cannibals killing alligators, crocodile, snakes, and other animals.

Exploitation film - Mondo Cannibale

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