Exploitation films – Page 3 – Really Awful Movies

Pieces

Although clearly Europe, the purportedly Boston-set slasher, Pieces, does take the viewer to another place entirely. (For 80s gore-heads, Bean Town is the setting for the fairly pedestrian slasher, Night School, filmed in the city’s Beacon Hill neighbourhood). Like other slasher masterpieces from the era, Pieces whets appetites with a delicious prologue and a nudieContinue reading “Pieces”

The Last Shark

If you squint, it’s Quint…The Last Shark, aka, L’ultimo squalo is basically Jaws minus Chief Brody and all elements intact (even if limbs are not). In his stead, an author (of all people) and a Robert Shaw-aping Vic Morrow are tasked with taking down the killer fish. The town of Port Harbor is gearing upContinue reading “The Last Shark”