Genre: Exploitation
Exploitation stories lean hard into the lurid and the extreme — sensation over restraint, built to shock, thrill, and provoke.
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The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
Jack Hill's 1974 American exploitation film about a feminist journalism student who joins a college cheerleading squad to write an expose and finds genuine friendship with the team. Foundational entry in the cheerleader subgenre and one of the strongest Hill productions of the 1970s.