Mexploitation

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A Mexploitation film is a film genre that combines elements of an Exploitation film and Mexican culture and/or portrayals of Mexican life within Mexico often dealing with crime, drug trafficking, money and sex. The typical Mexploitation film takes place in the country side of major cities and drugs, sex, crime are always involved. Movies made in the 60s and 70s were closer to the American Exploitation genre but in the early 80s and into the 90s saw a change for more movies dealing with actual events occurring within Mexico such as drug cartels and the murders of their rivals. Notable actors in these films include Mario Almada, Sergio Goyri and David Reynoso.

An exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s. Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the "Wrestling Women," these low-budget "Mexploitation" films offer plenty of campy fun and still inspire cult devotion, yet they also reward close study in surprising ways.