Exploitation Nation #1: Lesbian Vampires of the Cinema

by Mike Watt, Bill Adcock, Rhonda Baughman

Exploitation Nation - Premiere Issue! Welcome to a brand new publication spotlighting the weird, wonderful world of "exploitation films". With a definition as diverse as the films that fall into that category, the sky is the limit for E.N. In this premiere issue, William J. Wright interviews "Ilsa" herself, Dyanne Thorne; Mike Watt presents "lost" interviews with Clive Barker and his "Saint Sinner" stars, Mary Mara and Rebecca Harrell. Plus everyone's a large review section! Then we sit back and discuss everyone's favorite the Lesbian Vampire Film. All this and more in Exploitation Nation #1

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2018

About the author

Mike Watt is a writer, journalist and screenwriter. He has written for such publications as Fangoria, Film Threat, The Dark Side, the late Frederick Clarke’s Cinefantastique, Femme Fatales and served as editor for the RAK Media Group's resurrection of Sirens of Cinema.

Through the production company, Happy Cloud Pictures, he has written and produced or directed the award-winning feature film The Resurrection Game, as well as Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut, A Feast of Flesh, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation and the award-winning Razor Days.

He is the author of the short fiction collection, Phobophobia, the novels The Resurrection Game and Suicide Machine, and from McFarland Publishing: Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint. In 2014, he launched the acclaimed Movie Outlaw book series, focusing on "underseen cinema". He is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Exploitation Nation.

Through Happy Cloud Media, LLC, he edits and publishes 42nd Street Pete's Grindhouse Purgatory Magazine, as well as Pete's autobiography, "A Whole Bag of Crazy".

In 2017, he edited the 40th Anniversary printing of Paul Schrader's TAXI DRIVER screenplay, featuring a new interview with Robert De Niro, published in 2018 by Gauntlet Press.

Reviews

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike the second book in this series this one was edited well. It notes sometimes the studio approach to the film didn't match the producer's vision. It also talks about type casting, folk horror films and the rules for making vampire films.

Some of the films include Daughters of Darkness, the Erotic Life of Countess Dracula, Lust for Dracula and Vampires: Daughters of Darkness. It's an interesting and fairly well done book.