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hot- “angry underground”
- high art meets low art
- fantastique & pulp aesthetics
- comic book vibes/“larger-than-life”
- sadism and the ugly side of life (eg mondo films, evil dictators, kinky nuns, nazis, criminals, murderers, drugs, torture, women-in-prison exploitations, the Italian cannibal boom)
- horror, creature features and the gates of hell (eg vampires, witches, the occult, Satan, body horror, splatter, mad scientists, weird asia)
- sexual exploration and revolution (eg euro-erotica, the journeys of Emmanuelle, Jamie Gillis and the golden age of American porn, punk faggots, heteroflexibles & gender fuckery)
- macho, aggressive cinema filled with abs, tits and blood (Schwarzenegger, Paul Verhoeven, action b-movies/martial arts, giant monster movies, low-budget foreign remakes or rip-offs especially from Italy, Turkey, Nigeria or directed by Bruno Mattei)
- gloss, pop and escapism (MTV, 90s erotic thrillers, soaps and showbiz, 50s melodramas, anything with cruel teenage girls)
- supposed ‘bombs’, ‘flops’, faded stars and the aesthetics of ‘failure’
- “realism”
- humourlessness
- MST3K bullshit and smug ideas of what makes a ‘bad film’ vs a ‘good film’ zzzz
- middlebrow & passive cinema
- Oscar bait & status quo vanity projects starring lazy millionaire actors
- film school approved/‘cultured’ entertainment (eg generic arthouse films loved by every ‘alt’ person aged 17-35, inoffensive foreign films, cutesy quirky indie twee, Wes Anderson bullshit)
- finance-geeks-inherit-the-world hollywood (eg bloated fantasy/sci-fi blockbusters based on or ripped off popular books, superhero or generic good-vs-evil films, endless reboots, remakes, PG-13 horror films)
- 90% of comedies shat out of the system every month and end up in planes and basic cable (eg sappy heteronormative rom-coms with neurotic female leads who can’t be satisfied til they find the perfect man)
- all Pixar films/heavy CGI aesthetics and anything that lacks physicality or flesh
