Extreme cinema

Being a relatively recent genre, extreme cinema is controversial and widely unaccepted by the mainstream media.

[3] Extreme cinema films target a specific and small audience group.

[4] The history of extreme cinema can be traced back to censorship of art films and advertising tactics for classical exploitation films to Anglophone markets alongside later liberal representations of sex in the first half of the 20th century onwards.

[132] Some criticize the easy exposure and unintended targeting of adolescents by extreme cinema films.

[135] The behind-the-scenes look at Cannibal Holocaust was the subject of a Season 2 episode of the documentary series Cursed Films.