“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…Furthermore, it addresses how The Toolbox Murders is positioned as an exploitation film. Apart from exploitative uses of sex and violence, this paper posits that the appropriation and use of claims to veracity is itself exploitative of both generic exploitation and the viewer’s cognitive reception of the closing intertitle trope. …”
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Exploitation Cinema and the Lesbian Imagination by Anne Crémieux

“…When they were first released, exploitation films were harshly criticized for their depiction of women and homosexuals. …”
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Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005 et 2007), le torture-porn et le cinéma d’exploitation : l’être humain à l’ère de sa reproductibilité technique by Pierre Jailloux

“…Produced by Quentin Tarantino, the first two installments of Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005, 2007) belong to a subgenre of horror that emerged in the early 2000s, the torture porn, and are heavily influenced by exploitation films. The system depicted in Hostel (you pay to torture and kill someone) is at the basis of a deliberate critique of a globalized contemporary world governed by rampant economic liberalism according to which anything or anyone can be bought or sold. …”
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Rob Zombie, 2009): An Animated Exploitation of Exploitation Cinema by Pierre Floquet

“…Because the medium of animation highlights and intensifies any original code of representation, the film ultimately questions the mise en abyme of cinema within exploitation films, as much as films within animation films. …”
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