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Britsploitation en · NOUN

Etymology

From Brit + -sploitation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A genre of low-budget films produced or set in the United Kingdom.
    • Wright, whose mock Britsploitation trailer Don't is currently playing during the intermission between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-bill, manages to integrate these disparate parts into a cohesive, intelligent whole. 2007 April 18, Neil Morris, “Hot Fuzz and Fracture”, in Indy Week:
    • Cult Britsploitation flicks Terror and Prey were released at the fag-end of the 70s and have all the elements you’d expect for that period: lesbian butchery, sinister parties, deranged parrots, heartless aliens, curb-crawlers and lovingly inventive, drawn-out death sequences. 2009, "Tony Molester," album review, Vice, Volume 7, Number 8, August 2009, page 161
    • Yet, surely the audience for a Cardiff documentary would be just as interested in his Britsploitation thrillers like “Dark of the Sun” and “The Liquidator.” 2011, Joe Bendel, "Love for the cameraman, the greatest ever colour cinematographer", The Epoch Times, 19 May 2011 - 25 May 2011, P9