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If a category is listed as "Optional", it does not need to be
filled to "complete" the checklist. There are 10 free spots you may apply to non-Optional categories.
As with other checklists, titles can count for multiple categories.

Some of these categories are so obscure we're giving 10 free spots of your choosing to fill in the list.

Watch one film from every decade of film history.
* 1890 - (insert film title here)(Optional)
* 1900 -(optional)
* 1910 -(optional)
* 1920 -(optional)
* 1930 -
* 1940 -
* 1950 -
* 1960 -
* 1970 -
* 1980 -
* 1990 -
* 2000 -
* 2010 -
Watch a film for each rating:
* G - (optional)
* PG -
* PG-13 - (optional)
* R -
* X (or NC-17) -
* Unrated (post-MPAA 1968) -

Watch films in at least three formats (DVD, BD, HD DVD, Laserdisc, TV, online, Streaming Netflix type, UMD, theater, iPod, VHS-sourced{VHS transferred to DVD-+R is fine}).
* First format, (insert format), (insert title).
* Second format, (insert format), (insert title).
* Third format, (insert format), (insert title).

Watch a film in an actual Drive-in. (optional) (insert title)

Watch a film in the following genres:

Italian (or European) films of the following Genres:
* Giallo
* Sword & Sandal
* Spaghetti Western
* Cannibal Film
Martial Arts film:
* Bruce Lee-sploitation (Starring any variation on Bruce Li, Le, etc.)
* Hong Kong (or other Asian) film
* American film
* Any "Ninja" film
* Bonus* Actual Bruce Lee film
Asian Action Film
Biker Film
Stoner Film
Carsploitation Film
FADsploitation
Blaxploitation
Sexploitation:
* Any type
* Nudie Cutie
* Roughie
* 70s Porn
* Emmanuelle Film
* Teen Sex Comedy
Nunsploitation
Shocksploitation
Rape/Revenge Film
Vigilante Film
Women in Prison
Nazisploitation
Eschploitation (religious end times, or general religious exploitation)
Hixploitation/Moonshiners
Roadshow Exploitation/30s-40s "Cautionary" films
Juvenile Delinquent Film
60s Beach Movie
Film starring Musical Group or Music Star (that did not become a legit actor)
* *Bonus* Elvis film
Ozploitation
Mexican Wrestling Film
Foreign "Ripoff" film (such as Turkish cinema)
Eco-Terror Film
Pre-90s Post-Apocalyptic film
"Mondo" Film
Documentary ABOUT Exploitation/Drive-ins or those involved in their production
Video Nasty
Critical Bomb (Less than 20% Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic or IMDB Bottom 100 {Bottom 100 archive})
Financial Bomb
Razzie Winner or Nominee
MST3K/RiffTrax (or Cinematic Titanic) version of a film

Watch 3 Paycheck films, A.K.A. Nick Cage memorial. Films with once respected actors fallen on hard times.
* 1
* 2
* 3

Watch 10 films starring anyone from the actors safe list.
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10

Watch 10 films Directed/Produced by anyone from the directors/producers safe list.
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
Watch 5 films from those in the Studio/Distributor safe list.
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5


Safe Lists
The following lists are Automatic Safe lists. They are not definitive and there might be exceptions therein, especially concerning Distributors. Generally, the presence of those on the lists in an actual creative capacity (that is, more than just a cameo or bit part. For instance, Bruce Campbell appearing in Spider-Man does not make Spider-Man safe) is enough to make a film safe. Got more? Post them and I'll update the list. Obviously, films not including these participants are safe, too. Update: I added several new names to the actors list. Some of these actors appeared in actual big budget Hollywood fare, but most of their career was in B-Movies, then obviously discard the Big Hollywood movies and just watch the B's (For example, William Shatner. Ignore Star Trek movies but anything else is fair game. Or Patrick Swazye. Ghost is probably not right, but most of his other films were B-Movies).

Automatic Safe list:
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 Distributors/Studios: 
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10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

Old 04-05-19, 12:25 AM
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

I've been a citizen of the interwebs since probably 1995, and briefly in 1989 during the BBS days. I was still able to remember most of the films I had seen as a child in the 70s and 80s enough to discuss them. Twenty years ago I was winning trivia contests on AOL chat but damned if I could do that now. Now, I find myself far enough removed from those days that those films are gone. It's like my movie memories are on a sliding scale of about 20-25 years and most earlier stuff might as well be brand new movies to me. I'm watching The Deadly Mantis, which I know I saw on a local movie host's show in my single digits, but I can't remember a thing from it other than the giant mantis. I'm marking it as a "never before seen" despite probably having seen it 40+ years ago. It occurs to me that I don't remember the plot of a single Godzilla movie. I can only remember a handful of Vincent Price movies. It's kind of one of the nice things about these challenges, revisiting old films I've forgotten. In the case of this challenge, old films I'd heard of but was not allowed to see. But still, it sucks getting old.
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

Originally Posted by caligulathegod
I've been a citizen of the interwebs since probably 1995, and briefly in 1989 during the BBS days. I was still able to remember most of the films I had seen as a child in the 70s and 80s enough to discuss them. Twenty years ago I was winning trivia contests on AOL chat but damned if I could do that now. Now, I find myself far enough removed from those days that those films are gone. It's like my movie memories are on a sliding scale of about 20-25 years and most earlier stuff might as well be brand new movies to me. I'm watching The Deadly Mantis, which I know I saw on a local movie host's show in my single digits, but I can't remember a thing from it other than the giant mantis. I'm marking it as a "never before seen" despite probably having seen it 40+ years ago. It occurs to me that I don't remember the plot of a single Godzilla movie. I can only remember a handful of Vincent Price movies. It's kind of one of the nice things about these challenges, revisiting old films I've forgotten. In the case of this challenge, old films I'd heard of but was not allowed to see. But still, it sucks getting old.
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

The Last Drive-In tonight:



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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

While I realize that the channel itself has been out for few years, Dish just recently got a new channel added to their lineup that should be a good channel for this Challenge. Dish got Comet a few days ago, and it looks like the movies are a good fit for this Challenge. It looks like b horror and sci fi movies are part of the movie lineup at least.
Old 04-05-19, 09:35 PM
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

"Not changing a word"? Sounds suspicious to me. Obviously it's scripted, but I can't believe he couldn't alter a tense of phrase. "If Larry Cohen continues to write scripts into 2020, he will have been writing in 8 decades." A cool line, but 7 decades is still impressive.
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Anybody else watching Q right now? Interesting sound mix. Whenever there’s an attack, the sound gets cranked up!
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

I had to spoilerize my list because there's some weird bug that causes huge spacing in between movies whenever I edit the post. Other than hating this layout, I'm still having fun with this challenge.
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
I had to spoilerize my list because there's some weird bug that causes huge spacing in between movies whenever I edit the post. Other than hating this layout, I'm still having fun with this challenge.
The same thing happens to me. I get extra spaces right after the picture in my post and have to delete them.

I'm also having a good challenge. I really enjoyed the oxploitation film Wake in Fright though I found the hunting scenes (featuring real footage) to be extremely disturbing. I also checked out my BDs of Dolemite (which looks so good) and Shin Godzilla. I'm trying to fit in as much in the beginning of the month, because I start to get super busy in a couple weeks.
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Had Wild Things sitting on my DVR for months. Finally watched it. It wasn't as bad as I had been led to believe. Extremely twisty plot though
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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

Originally Posted by pacaway
Had Wild Things sitting on my DVR for months. Finally watched it. It wasn't as bad as I had been led to believe. Extremely twisty plot though
The late 90s film? People told you it was bad? You don’t need people like that in your life.
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All this talk of Wild Things (1998) made me go a-lookin' and I ended up finding Wild Thing (1987), a fun urban vigilante/Tarzan mashup. I ended up renting it from Prime, but it is available for free (watch with ads) from Vudu. Should have checked Vudu first.

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The late 90s film? People told you it was bad? You don’t need people like that in your life.
Too funny!
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I was trying to find something to watch for tonight, and I got to thinking, ‘Why not some Stooges?’ I dug out Volume 4 of the Complete Collection, and just finished ‘They Stooge To Conga’, in which they are handymen who come upon a nest of Axis spies. There was one scene where Curly had a light bulb in his ear that reminded me of Fester from The Addams Family.
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Just a heads up about the movie Dangerous Youth streaming free with Prime. It's touted as "Classic 1950's JD Schlock" so of course I had to check it out. An English JD/singer gets drafted into the Army and gets into a whole bunch of trouble. The problem is that the movie runs around 18 minutes less that the runtime listed on IMDB. It seems that at least one song was cut (maybe no big deal) and there is also a big gap in the middle where significant events leading up to the trouble are just not there. Beware.
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So far the It's Alive trilogy has been my best watch.
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The Silence on Netflix is easily skippable
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Tripped over my Drive-In Delirium: ’60s and ’70s Savagery bd yesterday and decided to watch "The '60's" portion today, which clocks in at about an hour and fifty minutes, as opposed to "The '70's" which clocks in at about four or five hours. If I get around to "The '70's" for the Challenge I'll definitely be watching it in smaller chunks of around 90 minutes or 2 hours a pop.
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^I did a trailer compilation last night too. Something Weird Video’s Dusk to Dawn show Volume 1. Surprisingly, there were a few trailers for movies that I’ve never heard of. Like Hell’s Chosen Few, Scream Baby Scream And The Bull Buster!
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^I did a trailer compilation last night too. Something Weird Video’s Dusk to Dawn show Volume 1. Surprisingly, there were a few trailers for movies that I’ve never heard of. Like Hell’s Chosen Few, Scream Baby Scream And The Bull Buster!
Do you have all 10 volumes?
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^Nope. This is my first time watching any of them.
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Decided to do a quick survey of my trailer compilations. I've been picking them up off and on for years now and I've got a solid little collection. Need to pick up Trailer Trauma 2 & 3 though and I've got two others on order.

  • 42nd Street Forever
  • 42nd Street Forever: Volume 2: The Deuce
  • 42nd Street Forever Vol. 3: Exploitation Explosion
  • 42nd Street Forever: Volume 4
  • 42nd Street Forever: Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • 42nd Street Forever: The Blu-ray Edition
  • All the Colors of Giallo [blu] - on order
  • Drive-In Delirium - Volume 1
  • Drive-In Delirium - Volume 2
  • Drive-In Delirium - Volume 3
  • Drive-In Delirium: '60s and '70s Savagery (blu)
  • Drive in Delirium: Maximum '80s (blu)
  • Drive In Delirium: The New Batch [Blu] - on order
  • Extra Weird Sampler
  • For a Few Previews More
  • Kung Fu Trailers Of Fury (blu)
  • Return Of Kung Fu Trailers Of Fury (blu)
  • Not Quite Hollywood: The wild, untold story of Ozploitation!: 2 Disc Collector's Edition (Trailer disc)
  • Ozploitation Trailer Explosion
  • Stephen Romano Presents Shock Festival
  • The Horror of Hammer
  • Trailer Trauma (blu)
  • Trailer Trauma Part 4: Television Trauma (blu)
  • Trailer War (blu)

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Re: 10th Annual Drive-in/Exploitation/B-movie Challenge. April 1-30, 2019

That's pretty much my list, but with TT 2&3, Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (a blast), Trashsploitation (from SRS, and it is trash), Exhumed Films: 20 Years of Terror and minus For a Few Previews More.

I recently got through Grindsploitation 2: The Lost Reels. It's not bad considering it's from Troma, although I don't think it technically qualifies as a trailer comp since it's faux trailers and short films. I'll just save part 3 for next year.
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Originally Posted by Chad
That's pretty much my list, but with TT 2&3, Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (a blast), Trashsploitation (from SRS, and it is trash), Exhumed Films: 20 Years of Terror and minus For a Few Previews More.

I recently got through Grindsploitation 2: The Lost Reels. It's not bad considering it's from Troma, although I don't think it technically qualifies as a trailer comp since it's faux trailers and short films. I'll just save part 3 for next year.
You reminded me of a couple I have that I missed (Ozploitation) and I remembered I have one Something Weird compilation (Extra Weird Sampler).

My memory has also been jogged about the need to get Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Parts 1 & 2.
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Karate: Hand of Death should also get a recommendation on the trailer compilation list. I thought the disc had long been OOP, but deepdiscount currently has it for $9. The bonus feature, "Incredible Mayhem Martial Arts Trailer Show" was more satisfying than Kung Fu Trailers of Fury to me. Mostly because the trailers are marketed towards the English-speaking crowd with the Drive-In/Grindhouse POV.
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Karate: Hand of Death should also get a recommendation on the trailer compilation list. I thought the disc had long been OOP, but deepdiscount currently has it for $9. The bonus feature, "Incredible Mayhem Martial Arts Trailer Show" was more satisfying than Kung Fu Trailers of Fury to me. Mostly because the trailers are marketed towards the English-speaking crowd with the Drive-In/Grindhouse POV.
Forgot that one as well; it's in my collection too. Apparently it didn't leave as good an impression. I should revisit it.

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