Mondo Robbery Part 1

Einstein said 'For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction' - well in the world of exploitation films that isn't entirely true. For every big budget or successful film there is a reaction but whether that is equal or not is debatable. We're talking about 'rip off' films, those released to cash in on the success of the popular movie. These can be 'unofficial' sequels, titles designed to confuse viewers with the original movie or just blatant 'we have no copyright here' clones. The ironic things is that some of these productions are occasionally better than the original or at least just as enjoyable in a sideshow kind of way. For these reasons they've attracted legions of followers and collectors (here a 'legion' is defined as some where between 10 and a few dozen).

So let's have a look at the most notorious (and some of my favourite) of this unethical genre...

A-Listers in B-Movies

Not everyone's first role is in a big Hollywood Blockbuster, infact most of today's 'stars' had to come up the hard way appearing in everything from commercials, TV shows or cheap B-Movies or Horrors. And it's the latter that we're looking at here. So roll out the rogue's gallery:

Brad Pitt Before Pitt swished his way through Thelma & Louise, he had another bad boy character but this time in a bottom of the barrel, slasher film called 'Cutting Class'. And those of who were really paid attention might have noticed himself in an episode of horror anthology series, 'Freddy's Nightmares', titled 'Black Tickets'.