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| April 01, 2007 | McEachern, Martin | COPYRIGHT 2007 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Supervixens Cannibal Holocaust. The Savage Seven. These are a few of the hundreds of exploitation films that played in all-night marathons in the suburban drive-ins and inner-city grind houses of the 70s and early '80s. With their unbridled violence and lurid sexuality, they ignited the imaginations of two then--aspiring filmmakers, the now-famous Queutin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) and Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, the Spy Kids series, The Faculty). When the two became friends in the early 1990s, they would often run exploitation double features in their home theaters to recreate create the down and-dirty experience for themselves and their closest ...

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