Exploitation cinema has left as indelible mark on American culture, and this informative and amusing documentray proves that its principles - and popularity endure to this day.

Starting at the turn of the 20th Century, Exploitation Cinema emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows, reared its ugly head. Exploitation features like 'Traffic in Souls' and 'Freaks', brushed shoulders with hard-boiled Film Noir in the '40s, came of age with the teen flicks of the '50s, rode high with the biker pics of the '60s and came to light during the 'Blaxpoitation' boom of the '70s. American Grindhouse takes a fascinating look at the films, filmmakers, hucksters and hustlers who made it all happen.

Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Robert Forster, this documentary boasts exclusive interviews with filmmakers Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, Fred Willianson, John Landis and many more of them speaking out in their first-ever on-camera interviews.
Bursting with clips and scenes from more than 200 of the most jaw-dropping movies ever screened, American Grindhouse is one of the most comprehensive motion cinema picture ever made on the subject of Exploitation Cinema.