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David Perlmutter's avatar

The question should be: is this content relevant to the plot of the movie, or is it just being used as exploitative time-filler? There is a difference...

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

to some degree there's a difference...but exploitative time filler doesn't need to be sexy, and in any case can have its charms.

A lot of movies that are fairly canonical—Psycho, Carrie, Halloween—are sleazy exploitation crap...

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