drugsploitation

English

Poster for the drugsploitation film She Shoulda Said No! (also released as The Devil's Weed).

Etymology

drug +‎ -sploitation

Noun

drugsploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A genre of exploitation films which focus on the use of recreational drugs, typically featuring lurid scenes of drug-induced behaviour framed as a cautionary tale/morality play.
   • 2004, Irv Slifkin, VideoHound's Groovy Movies: Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era, Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, page 201:

     Meanwhile, newfangled drugsploitation flicks like Maryjane and The Hooked Generation invaded drive-ins, providing cautionary tales while the smell of those funny scented cigarettes filled the night air.

   • 2006, David Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity‎^[1], Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

     Such shots are to be found throughout the genre from early 'drug hysteria' and 'drugsploitation' movies through to its most recent examples.

   • 2006, Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends, Wiley, →ISBN, page 61:

     Fonda persuaded director Roger Corman to hire the band for his drugsploitation movie The Trip, a paean to LSD scripted by Jack Nicholson.