Britsploitation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Brit + -sploitation.
Noun
[edit]Britsploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A genre of low-budget films produced and/or set in the United Kingdom.
- 2007 April 18, Neil Morris, “Hot Fuzz and Fracture”, in Indy Week:
- Wright, whose mock Britsploitation trailer Don't is currently playing during the intermission between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-bill, manages to integrate these disparate parts into a cohesive, intelligent whole.
- 2009, "Tony Molester," album review, Vice, Volume 7, Number 8, August 2009, page 161:
- Cult Britsploitation flicks Terror and Prey were released at the fag-end of the 70s and have all the elements you’d expect for that period: lesbian butchery, sinister parties, deranged parrots, heartless aliens, curb-crawlers and lovingly inventive, drawn-out death sequences.
- 2011, Joe Bendel, "Love for the cameraman, the greatest ever colour cinematographer", The Epoch Times, 19 May 2011 - 25 May 2011, P9:
- Yet, surely the audience for a Cardiff documentary would be just as interested in his Britsploitation thrillers like “Dark of the Sun” and “The Liquidator.”