While the semi-recent phenomenon brought up by Robert
Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse project, complete with fake
trailers that for some reason show some of the best of their respective
directors’ work (seriously, I want to see a full-length version of Eli Roth’s
Thanksgiving), modern-day exploitation is far from a new thing. And long before
he’d end up making a career out of mocking old-school cinema involving nuns, Nazis
and cannibals, Brad Jones was doing much the same. From his snuff film thriller
Cheap to his more recent efforts like the Italian giallo homages in The Cinema
Snob Movie, you get a definite impression that the man has a clear admiration
for this style of filmmaking. So, in what I’m sure is going to be me playing
the long game, let’s take a look at his (available) filmography starting with
one of the earliest productions to come out of Stoned Gremlin.
