Get ready to be exploited.

<strong>10. Sexploitation: <em>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</em></strong>- Despite so many bare breasts, barely legals, lesbians, gigolos, transvestites—and a trip to the abortionist—we're amazed to say that sex isn't the most shocking aspect of this film. Instead, that dubious distinction goes to the screenplay by Roger Ebert. With dialogue like, "Taste the black semen of my vengeance!" and a bloody climax based on the Manson family murders, the critic-cum-cheeseball set a new standard for trash.
More soft-core psychodramas: Vixen, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

<strong>9. Shockumentary: <em>Faces of Death IV</em></strong>- Banned in 40 countries! Pure bullshit, of course. If it's real-life footage you want, you've rented the wrong DVD. But for fake scenes of human demise, nothing beats this campy pseudo-snuff narrated by Dr. Louis Flellis. (What kind of doctor keeps a lava lamp on his desk?) Highlights include a cannibal cookout, a bad-luck bungee jumper, and an Asian family feasting on a live puppy.
More staged fatalities: Faces of Death, Faces of Death II, and Faces of Death III

<strong>8. Blaxploitation: <em>Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song</em> </strong>- After killing a pair of racist cops, Sweetback (Melvin van Peebles) escapes through the L.A. ghetto, where he encounters pimps, whores, hustlers, Black Panthers, Hells Angels, and white chicks who marvel at his massive…talent.
More blaxploitation: Superfly, Shaft, Black Caesar, and Foxy Brown

<strong>7. Creep Show Peep Show: <em>Zombi 2</em></strong>- Yeah, we love Romero's Dawn of the Dead series, but for unadulterated sex and gore, we turn to Italian director Lucio Fulci, maestro of the shock-n-schlock school. Want to see a zombie fight a shark underwater? Thought so. The topless chicks aren't too terrible, either. As for the scene where a woman slowly, slowly gets a splinter pushed into her eyeball—don't say we didn't warn you.
More exploitation of the undead: Zombi 3, Zombie Holocaust, and The Beyond

<strong>6. Social Hygiene &amp; Hysteria: <em>Reefer Madness</em></strong>- We've all heard that marijuana leads to harder stuff. Yet who knew the "unspeakable scourge" of cannabis was responsible for rape, murder, suicide, insanity, and (gulp!) piano jazz? That's the message of this morality tale, first released in 1936 as Tell Your Children, before being recut and ultimately rediscovered as a cult classic in the reefer-friendly '70s. You don't have to be stoned to enjoy this film. But, honestly, it couldn't hurt.
More agenda pushers: Assassin of Youth, Because of Eve, Street Corner, and Glen or Glenda?

<strong>5. Hixploitation: <em>Deliverance</em></strong>- "He's got a real purty mouth, ain't he?" This classic of hillbilly horror contains the genre's nastiest, most disturbing scene. When toothless mountain men start handing out compliments, boys, you best run for the fucking hills.
More inbred horror: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gator Bait, and Redneck Rampage

<strong>4. Chicks in Chains: <em>Caged Heat</em></strong>- Forget about the strip searches, shower scenes, latent lesbianism, nudie catfights, and the sadistic wheelchair-bound warden. What makes Caged Heat the best women-in-prison flick is not the number of full frontals, but the strength of its characters. When these sassy cellblock sisters fight back against the system, don't be surprised to find yourself cheering them on! (Just kidding. It's all about the boobs.)
More caged chicks: The Big Bird Cage, Bare Behind Bars, and Reform School Girls. And for the truly sick and twisted: Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

<strong>3. Mondo Cannibal: <em>Cannibal Holocaust</em></strong>- The name pretty much says it all. These guys make Hannibal Lecter look like a model of dietary restraint.
More man-eaters: Make Them Die Slowly!, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, and Cannibal Holocaust II

<strong>2. Bruceploitation: <em> The Dragon Lives Again</em> </strong>- Bruce Lee movies became increasingly popular after his death, giving rise to a tide of bizarre knockoffs. In the martial arts absurdity known as The Dragon Lives Again, the miraculously reincarnated "Bruce Lee" joins forces with Popeye to fight James Bond, Emmanuelle, and Dracula. The movie was apparently shot on location—in hell.
More Bruce back from the grave: Re-Enter the Dragon, Enter Three Dragons, Return of Bruce, Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave, and The Clones of Bruce Lee

<strong>1. Nunsploitation: <em>The Devils</em></strong>- So long, celibacy. Hello, Marquis de Sade! Religious life turns spicy hot when a convent of pent-up French nuns falls prey to demonic possession. The movie's producers forced director Ken Russell to cut an entire two-and-a-half-minute sequence before submitting the film to censors—and it still earned an X rating. The deleted "rape of Christ" scene was fully restored in 2005, when the film was released on DVD. Thank heavens!
More nunsploitin' notables: Killer Nun, Behind Convent Walls, and Sacred Flesh