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While reliably puritanical Americans were scandalized by the lyrics to вЂњDarling Nikki,вЂќ their British counterparts were shocked and appalled by a slate of so-called вЂњvideo nastiesвЂќ - generally low-budget exploitation films that ranged from the ripe theatrics of Herschell Gordon LewisвЂ™s Blood Feast to the grim sexual violence of The Last House on the Left and the Nazisploitation cycle that included such prosaic titles as Love Camp 7, GestapoвЂ™s Last Orgy and The Beast in Heat. Continue reading в†’ДЇor a roughly 20-year period beginning in the early 1980s, low-budget horror films were considered a primary threat to the safety of the British public.

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(Seriously, this movie never met a fish it didnвЂ™t want to stab in the face.) And then, for just a few fleeting moments at a time, Tintorera is one of the great killer-shark movies, with underdressed women and overconfident men getting torn apart in mid-swim before the shark flees the scene with a head or torso clutched in its jaws like a happy spaniel carrying a pheasant, entrails dragging behind and gallons of blood saturating the waters behind them. By contrast, about a third of the film is a skeevy underwater adventure-cum-travelogue in which Steven, Miguel, and other local fisherman absolutely have their way with the aquatic kingdom, skewering barracudas and manta rays and using them as bait for larger fish, hanging sea tortoises off the side of boats and slashing them open for blood chum, and cutting open tiger sharks and letting them bleed out on the ocean floor. For what must be the majority of its running time, Tintorera is a sun-and-skin melodrama set in a Mexican resort village where the loitering Steven and Miguel (Hugo Stiglitz and AndrГЁs Garcia) navigate the treacherous waters of a sexy threesome with an English tourist, Gabriella (Susan George), who declares that the only thing off-limits in their relationship вЂ¦ is love.

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