Pandering has made great successes out of some rather odd films. Give your audience erections or explosions and laugh all the way to the bank. The aforementioned, plus Smokey and the Bandit , Animal House , Armageddon , Air Force One and the Amityville Horror . If America doesn't gobble up your exploitation flick, someone else will. Hey, in Asia, they probably think Jackie Chan sucks, but they loved Barb Wire .
People do buy hype, even when it's coming from the filmmakers.
The Blair Witch project. It's called backlash. We hope this brief guide has proven useful. Of course, we can't account for those films that don't fit our rules but still break records. Neither can studio execs, and it drives them crazy.