American History Ex is an exploratory examination of exploitation film, a continuing column celebrating “low culture.” This month is Blaxploitation History Month.
After the amazingly ridiculous Three the Hard Way and it’s pseudo-Neo Nazi antagonists, I was inspired to check out a film that I was extremely wary of, initially. As intriguing as it is, it seems so… wrong… in so many ways. But still, how could you not watch a Blaxploitation movie called The Black Gestapo. Continue reading
American History Ex is an exploratory examination of exploitation film, a continuing column celebrating “low culture.” This month is Blaxploitation History Month.
What better follow-up to the Super Bowl than a 1974 Blaxploitation flick that has absolutely nothing to do with football other than the fact that it stars two former NFL players, one of whom briefly played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. If that’s not relevant, then I don’t know what is… and if you ain’t got relevance, you can never ever carry it off… Continue reading
