Vetsploitation
Film genre about an ex-military fighter as a key character
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Vetsploitation is a film genre and term used to describe exploitation films in which a military veteran is the main element to the plot.
Critical reception
The vetsploitation genre developed in the 1970s, as B movies featuring veterans who were vilified and became antiheroes.[1][2] Aspects of American vetsploitation films were paralleled by Russian media inspired by the Soviet–Afghan War.[3]
Notable films
- 1971: Billy Jack[2]
- 1972: Skyjacked
- 1973: The No Mercy Man
- 1974: Deathdream
- 1976: Taxi Driver[4]
- 1977: Black Sunday[1]
- 1977: The Farmer[5]
- 1977: Rolling Thunder[6]
- 1980: The Exterminator
- 1980: Cannibal Apocalypse[7]
- 1982: Forced Vengeance
- 1982: First Blood[8]
- 1983: Blue Thunder[9]
- 1985: Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
- 1985: The Park Is Mine
- 1986: Combat Shock
- 1987: Street Trash
- 1990: Jacob's Ladder
- 1995: Dead Presidents
