Vetsploitation

Vetsploitation is a film genre and term used to describe exploitation films in which a military veteran is the main element to the plot.

Critical reception

The vetsploitation genre developed in the 1970s, as B movies featuring veterans who were vilified and became antiheroes.^[1][2] Aspects of American vetsploitation films were paralleled by Russian media inspired by the Soviet–Afghan War.^[3]

Notable films

• 1971: Billy Jack^[2]
• 1972: Skyjacked
• 1973: The No Mercy Man
• 1974: Deathdream
• 1976: Taxi Driver^[4]
• 1977: Black Sunday^[1]
• 1977: The Farmer^[5]
• 1977: Rolling Thunder^[6]
• 1980: The Exterminator
• 1980: Cannibal Apocalypse^[7]
• 1982: Forced Vengeance
• 1982: First Blood^[8]
• 1985: Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
• 1985: The Park Is Mine
• 1986: Combat Shock
• 1987: Street Trash
• 1990: Jacob's Ladder
• 1995: Dead Presidents