The passion project of Eric S. Eichelberger, filmmaker and founder of the Shock-a-Go-Go Film Festival, Exploit This! is a six part documentary series that delves into the evolution of exploitation films from their inception to their modern resurgence.
Exploit This! will explore the history of the exploitation film from its development with the birth of cinema itself, to its golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, its death and then makeover in the 1980s, and ultimately, to its revitalization in the present. This documentary will show how low-budget cinema has shaped the independent film industry as we see it today.
…with key figures like Clive Barker, Quentin Tarantino, Larry Cohen, Roger Corman, George A. Romero, Frank Hennenlotter, H.G. Lewis and more, as well as experts on the subject, this documentary series aims to be the authoritative film on the subject. Eichelberger has taken 13 years to compile interviews from subjects who actually lived through the prime eras of exploitation films, committed to providing a comprehensive look at this influential facet of American cinema.