Top Ten Tuesdays

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

The topic for this week should be simple enough but could be broadened a bit if you so wish because most definitions confine the films to those made between 1970 and '75. To use the text on the back of Mikel J. Koven's Pocket Essentials as a guide, then it should fit.

"In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts, really cool soul, R 'n' B and disco music soundtracks, characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across our screens."

This should enable you to look at action, horror and drama films. The term may not exactly fit, but if you wanted to extend it to films by directors including Spike Lee and John Singleton, I don't have a problem with that.

BLAXPLOITATION FILMS

[Demoncrat]

Cotton Comes To Harlem
The Black Gestapo
Hitman
Hell Up In Harlem
Black Samson
3 The Hard Way
Friday Foster
Blacula
Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssss Song
Boss Nigger

[bleakshaun]

Foxy Brown
Blacula
Jackie Brown
Shaft
Sugar Hill
The Black Gestapo
Scream Blacula Scream
Willie Dynamite
Coffy
Dolemite

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[MrBarlow]

Blackenstein
Blackula
Coffy
Disco Godfather
Dolemite
Foxy Brown
Scream Blackula Scream
The Human Tornado

Not sure if these can be added to the list
Live and let die
The Beast Must Die

[Demoncrat]

Not on my watch

Here's another 10.

Penitentiary
Abby
Black Belt Jones
Truck Turner
Sugar Hill
The Mack
Hammer
Dolemite
The Last Dragon
Menace II Society

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Not sure if these can be added to the list
Live and let die
The Beast Must Die

I wouldn't consider either to be blaxploitation films.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I wouldn't consider either to be blaxploitation films.

Sorry Nos my bad

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Sorry Nos my bad

There's no need to apologise.

It is a personal thing, but I personally don't consider them blaxploitation films. I know The Beast Must Die is from the blaxploitation era and features a black leading actor, but it seems like a cash in and is really only a blaxploitation film in the same way as Night of the Living Dead would be!

Live and Let Die is, despite the voodoo plot, a Bond movie with a white lead and big budget so I wouldn't categorise it as being in the blaxploitation category either.

[nosferatu42]

"Live and let die" is listed with the Blaxploitation films on Wikipedia.

I would count it as it is James Bond films 'exploiting' the trend at the time for films based around black culture.

Also from the Wiki listing for "Live and let die".

.....Live and Let Die was released during the height of the blaxploitation era, and many blaxploitation archetypes and clichés are depicted in the film, including derogatory racial epithets ("honky"), black gangsters, and pimpmobiles.[1] It departs from the former plots of the James Bond films about megalomaniac super-villains, and instead focuses on drug trafficking, a common theme of blaxploitation films of the period. It is set in African American cultural centres such as Harlem and New Orleans, as well as the Caribbean Islands.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I think Nos forgot all the New York elements of Live and Let Die.