Filipino Exploitation Cinema
List of exploitation films made in the Philippines, as presented in the documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed.
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- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
- DirectorMark HartleyStarsRoger CormanJohn LandisPete TombsA fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer GanAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice RomanGrier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
- DirectorJoe ViolaStarsCarmen ArgenzianoAndrea CaganMargaret MarkovHot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.
- DirectorAndrew MeyerStarsJoy BangMarlene ClarkRoger GarrettAfter being bitten by a cobra in the Philippines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsPam GrierMargaret MarkovSid HaigA Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyPat WoodellSid HaigA foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJames IglehartLada Edmund Jr.Carol SpeedAction packed story of how Jim Haygood (James Glehart) young, black and brilliant becomes the legendary leader of a rebel army. In a daring ambush on the beach Moncada, elusive leader of the rebel army, is captured by Jim Haygood and turned over to the authorities. That night, Jim celebrates his success in a nightclub, where he meets two glamorous young girl entertainers, Amanda of the High Wire (Carol Speed) and Vicky the Knife-Thrower (Lada Edmund Jr.). A reporter bursts in with the news that Moncada is dead, accusing Jim of the cold-blooded murder of the rebel leader. Jim gets in a fight with his superiors over this and knocks out his commanding officer. Jim is put under arrest but pulls off a clever escape when he is being transported to the military prison. He hides out in Amanda and Vicky's dressing-room. During a raid by the military police, Vicky is caught and interned but Jim commandeers an army jeep and escapes into the mountains with Amanda. Jim and Amanda are then taken prisoner by the rebel forces but in a major battle between the rebels and the army Jim proves his true colors. In a brilliant coup he redirects the enemy planes to attack their own troops. From then on, through a swift series of daring exploits Jim Haygood emerges as the new rebel leader, "SAVAGE" in name and deed.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoJonathan DemmeCurtis HansonStarsPat AndersonLenore KasdorfLyllah TorenaStewardesses battle kung fu killers.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsGloria HendryCheri CaffaroRosanna OrtizThree women of three races join the fundraising part of an island revolution.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJeannie BellStan ShawPat AndersonA young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsPat AndersonLindsay BloomTara StrohmeierA fashion photography assignment teams three American models and inadvertently plunges them into the mystery and danger of international espionage.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsRosanne KatonColleen CampSylvia AndersonAn American track team has just arrived in The Philippines for an international competition. Among the competitors are Ginger and Pam, nicknamed "Ivory" and "Ebony", who meet up with another friend, Jackie, nicknamed "Jade". After they arrive at their hotel, a gang of thugs kidnaps them, along with some other girls from the team. To get away, the trio are going to have to use all their fighting skills.
- DirectorAllan ArkushJoe DanteStarsMary WoronovPaul BartelGeorge WagnerA young woman arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, plagued by strange deadly accidents.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJillian KesnerDarby HintonRey MalonzoFemme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsFrancis LedererGreta ThyssenRichard DerrA mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsLeopoldo SalcedoMichael ParsonsEfren ReyesAn American intelligence agent is captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. A team is put together to try to rescue him.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsJock MahoneyFernando Poe Jr.Michael ParsonsThis gritty, atmospheric war movie dramatizes a chapter of World War II history in which 10,000 Japanese soldiers, fearing execution if they surrendered, disobeyed their own superiors' orders and barricaded themselves in Manila's Intramuros section along with a thousand or so unfortunate civilians. The walled city-within-the-city was built by Spanish colonialists from 1590 onward. Leading Allied forces trying to wear the trapped Axis troops' resistance down is Jock Mahoney as a gruff American officer carrying a big load of guilt from a prior operation gone wrong. Shot in impressive chiaroscuro-lit black-and-white on location, this was a fairly rare U.S. coproduction at the time, though the Philippines would shortly become a hub for English- language exploitation movies (with co-directors Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon among the busiest creators of features designed for both local and overseas audiences). WALLS OF HELL must have been a bittersweet project for de Leon: during WW2 he was forced to make propaganda films by Japanese occupiers even as he secretly worked against them in the underground resistance. - Dennis Harvey
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyKent TaylorMario MontenegroNatives of a tropical island have to contend with man-eating plants and animals, mutations caused by radioactivity. Virgin sacrifices become the norm. A small group of interlopers become caught up in the mayhem.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyAngelique PettyjohnRonald RemyA man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyCeleste YarnallEddie GarciaA mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyMary Charlotte WilcoxLeopoldo SalcedoSatan saves a man from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyPat WoodellJan MerlinA kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
- DirectorCharles B. GriffithStarsSam BottomsSusanne ReedVirgil FryeA giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.