INDEPENDENT FILM FOR INDEPENDENT MINDS

Narrated by Robert Forster, American Grindhouse tracks the history of exploitation film from its birth in the early 1900s to its illusory transition into mainstream cinema today. Featuring interviews with directors like John Landis and Joe Dante, and film historians like Eric Schaeffer and Eddie Muller, American Grindhouse is a pretty fascinating story. In fact, while exploitation films have been around almost as long as the movie camera itself, what’s most interesting about the genre is how much it’s evolved during the years. But as John Landis points out, the term exploitation is subjective, because as long as there’s an element you can exploit, it falls under the category of an exploitation film.