Satan's School for Girls Trailer

Satan's School for Girls (1973)

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Fit to Kill Trailer

Fit to Kill (1993)

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vs. Blonde Savage

The B-Raters vs. Blonde Savage

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Cat Women of the Moon Trailer

Cat Women of the Moon Trailer (1953)

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Vintage Sexploitation Posters

Consenting Adults

A lot of the movies featured on The B-Raters are exploitative by nature. We are particularly fans of the Bruceploitation sub-genre, as well as the sexploitation slashers of the 1980s and beyond. A lot of the movies we watch were filmed in the '70s and '80s when mainstream standards were different and exploitation flicks remained very much underground.

These images of sexploitation cover art from the 1960s and '70s recall those times in lurid detail. This was before the advent of the VCR, which revolutionized the adult entertainment field, so these materials were only seen by a comparatively handful (ahem) of people in their time. This era is widely remembered as the time of sexual revolution in America and many of these depict a "free-love" environment in alignment with other hippy drivel.

What I find most striking is that almost none of these images are in any way shocking to me; they seem tame by almost any standards although they are suggestive and some are provocative. Maybe they didn't generate much controversy when they were first released, either. I only recognized the names of two or three of the movies featured (I swear!) and I don't think they are all pornographic, some are merely sleazy.

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vs. All Cheerleaders Die

The B-Raters vs. All Cheerleaders Die

If you tuned-in to The B-Raters last night, you know we had a bit of a snafu with Netflix having pulled the movie we were originally set to riff. We had to choose a random backup flick to watch on the fly and All Cheerleaders Die made the cut (so to speak). There's certainly no shortage of goofy, B-rated cheerleader murder movies and I, for one, believe it's time America had that Talk.

Anyway, The B-Raters vs. All Cheerleaders Die was not at all planned or even promoted and we came away quite pleased with it. Oh, the movie was awful - no doubt - but the riff was glorious and most of the cheerleaders are total GILFs. It's definitely worth a view. In a nutshell, a black bear-hunter steals this Goth-chick's Lucky Charms and all cheerleaders are gay (but we all knew that because they wouldn't date us, right?). It's surprisingly tame despite its enticing title. Mathematically speaking, only two titties make it to screen but there is an entire cast of utter boobs. It also spends an inordinate amount of time stressing the diversity of the highschool in which it is set: the student body includes an Eskimo with a pet penguin and a butt-fucking lion-tamer. It looks less like a highschool and more like a meeting at the U.N.

This happy accident may get a repeat viewing and posits itself as a franchise, so be sure to check out The B-Raters vs. All Cheerleaders Die. At exactly an hour and a half, you'll only be wasting an hour and a half of your life.

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209: Blood Beach

The B-Raters vs. Blood Beach

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207: Mesa of Lost Women

The B-Raters vs. Mesa of Lost Women

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Rapesploitation

I Spit on Your Grave

Rapesploitation flicks reached their height during the 1970s' Exploitation Film movement but "Roughies" predate them by several decades.  The majority of Rapesploitation films from the 1970s exploited the Women's Rights Movement of the era and almost all are Revenge Flicks. Like every field, there are earnest attempts, but the majority of these films were simply capitalizing on controversial issues of the times.

The Sexual Revolution of the previous decade paved the way for the release of more provocative films on a wider level but part of the Women's Rights Movement included the "Freedom to Choose" -- sexual partners without facing a social double-standard, to pursue a career instead of being a mother or homemaker, and so forth.  As some of the worst examples in this sub-genre prove, the idea threatened a significant portion of American audience members of both genders for various reasons.

All of this coincided with the popularity of the Devil Flick, a sub-genre of Religiousploitation which usually features a female victim who utters sexually explicit language to the shock of all onlookers.  Possession, in this sense, was portrayed as rape.  These films did much better with audiences, as more people related to them despite the prevailing attitude that many women "got what they deserved" or somehow "brought it upon themselves."  Against a religious backdrop, everyone could become a victim.

Rapesploitation films usually took the side of victim, not always preying on the simpler and uglier emotions but sensationalizing the issue nonetheless.  The worst absolutely used the guise of Women's Rights and Sexual Freedom as flimsy ruses by which to peddle smut.

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