Meaning of Canuxploitation | Babel Free

Definitions

A genre of low-budget films produced in Canada, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Examples

“Canuxploitation films form⟳ a constant undercurrent in both English Canada and Quebec, swelling at certain points to near-tidal proportions.”

“As a classic example of 1970s B-grade “Canuxploitation,” Death Weekend has retrospectively developed a cult audience beyond the lackluster response it garnered upon its initial release⟳.”

“How can we account for the career of quintessentially Canadian directors such as William Fruet and Paul Lynch, whose extensive filmographies include⟳ both realist classics such as Fruet's gruelling depiction of Albertan patriarchy, Wedding in White (1972), and Lynch's loser drama of an aging country-music singer on the road in small-town Ontario, The Hard Part Begins (1973), and Canuxploitation horror such as Fruet's Death Weekend (1976), Spasms (1983), Killer Party (1986), and Blue Monkey (1987), […]”

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