American Grindhouse

American Grindhouse (2011) — watch online on iFILM. Director Elijah Drenner traces the full arc of American exploitation cinema, from 1930s noir to the gore pioneers of the 1960s and the drive-in circuit of the 1970s.

John Landis, Joe Dante, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Fred Williamson, and a dozen other directors and actors who actually lived this world appear on screen. Not a defense of bad movies — a serious look at how low budgets, sensationalism, and hunger for audience response built a parallel Hollywood that never got respectable coverage. Stream American Grindhouse online on iFILM.