A cheesy ripoff of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau , this action/horror flick was wrought by the dub...

          To get a sense of what The Arena has to offer, think of the Kirk Douglas gladiator classic Spartacus (1960), subtr...

          Judged by the low standards of the cinematic cycle to which it belongs, Black Mama, White Mama is fairly palatable,...

          One of my favorite ’70s drive-in flicks is the violent oddity Vigilante Force (1976), starring Jan-Michael Vincent ...

          Overflowing with gratuitous nudity, sadistic violence, and various iterations of sexual abuse, this trio of babes-be...

Produced at the tail end of the blaxploitation boom—and in the waning days of leading lady Pam Grier’s initial popularity—this...

          A blaxploitation take on W.R. Burnett’s classic crime novel The Asphalt Jungle —previously filmed as a 1950 film n...

          For a few funky years in the early ’70s, the blaxploitation genre was so popular that it produced subgenres including a strin...

          First, the good news. In the last of her ’70s blaxploitation star vehicles, leading lady Pam Grier looks fantastic, and she displ...

          At first glance, the idea of a blaxploitation remake of Get Carter (1971) sounds great, since the grim Michael Caine picture has...

After scoring at the box office with Coffy (1973), writer-director Jack Hill and blaxploitation queen Pam Grier delivered more sexed-up cr...

          Pam Grier’s status as the queen of blaxploitation movies was secured by her appearance in Coffy —even though she doesn’t give a p...

Easily mistaken for one of the myriad demolition-derby comedies that flooded theaters in the ’70s, Greased Lightning is actually a charmin...