Holy Motors

This is a tribute to the best Exploitation Film Posters. This is not a celebration of the movies themselves, but of their poster art, which is very appealing for its design and copy styles. Exploitation movies were first seen in their modern form in the early 1920s, but they were popularized in the 60s and 70s with the general relaxing of censorship and cinematic taboos in the U.S. and Europe. Their producers used sensational elements to attract audiences lost to television. They may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. The Motion Picture Association of America (and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America before it) cooperated with censorship boards and grassroots organizations in the hope of preserving the image of a "clean" Hollywood, but the distributors of exploitation film operated outside of this circuit and often welcomed controversy as a form of free promotion. Since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention in academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema.