SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: How Exploitation Films Work
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In today's SYSK Select episode, we learn about exploitation films. During the 1930s-80s, the work of directors operating in the shadows of Hollywood led to explorations in sexuality and violence that mainstream cinema wouldn't touch. Join Chuck and Josh as they explore the seedy underbelly of grindhouse flicks.
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| 1:21.1 | Hey everyone, Chuck here. If you're wondering why you have suddenly 10 new episodes in your feed, |
| 1:27.4 | it's because we thought we might group |
| 1:29.1 | things together and try a little playlist here for the summer and see how it went. And in this |
| 1:33.3 | case, we're covering summer movies or movies in general. And I am setting up our semi-recent |
| 1:40.4 | episode from, oh, I guess it's not that recent, it's from April 2011 on exploitation |
| 1:45.1 | films and how they work. It was a really fun one to do. And if you love cinema and you love |
| 1:50.9 | movies, and if you love exploitation movies, especially, you're going to love this episode. So please |
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