Shock Documentaries
Three decades after Ingagi, documentaries relying on similar shock value became all the rage. The trend was set by the 1962 Italian film Mondo Cane, which traveled the world searching for cultural practices that would shake Western sensibilities -- animal deaths, body mutilations, bizarre foods, tribal rituals and the like. Its popularity led to movies of this ilk being labeled "mondo" films. By the late 1970s, the "shockumentary" format had expanded to series like Faces of Death, which displays real deaths caught on film. It should be noted that a good portion of shock documentaries are staged, although that revelation didn't diminish their popularity. Examples of the style include: Brutes and Savages, Shocking Asia, Mondo Magic, Kwaheri: Vanishing Africa, Faces of Gore and Traces of Death.
Slashers
See Slashers.
Notable Horror Exploitation Films
- Ingagi (1931)
- Freaks (1932)
- Mondo Cane (1962)
- Blood Feast (1963)
- Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
- I Drink Your Blood (1970)
- Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
- Last House on the Left (1972)
- Man From Deep River (1972)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
- Night Train Murders (1975)
- Fight for Your Life (1977)
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
- Faces of Death (1978)
- I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
- Beyond the Darkness (1979)
- Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
- Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
- Maniac (1980)
- The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
- Cannibal Ferox (1981)
- Entrails of a Virgin (1986)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
- Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
- Funny Games (1997)
- House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
- Murder Set Pieces (2004)
- Hostel (2005)
- Wolf Creek (2005)
- Captivity (2007)
