Episode 79: Teensploitation
Staying out after curfew. Backtalking to teachers. Drag racing. And worst of all, rock-n-roll music. What started off as a few greasers with leather jackets in the 1950s turned into a national panic every time a stuck up square uttered the term "juvenile delinquent.” Hollywood caught wind of this pretty quickly and responded accordingly with movies like “Blackboard Jungle and “Rebel Without a Cause.” And then the cheap exploitation knockoffs, slashers and cautionary tales came in droves. So join us for some good old fashioned sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. And rape and murder and STDs and switchblades and werewolves and sexy dancing and the potential murder of Natalie Wood and pedophiles that kill you in your dreams and teen lesbian murders and well, you get the point. All the things that teenagers love to do but hate the consequences of in today’s episode on Teensploitation.