The volume of imitations led to the formation of Modern Film Distributors, a group of exploitation filmmakers, in an effort to minimize booking conflicts.
David F. Friedman, an exploitation filmmaker and presenter who worked with Millard in the 1940s and 1950s, described Millard's appearance at a meeting as someone who "did not project an aura of prosperity," with a wrinkled suit and dirty shirt.
David F. Friedman, another successful exploitation filmmaker of the era, has attributed the "one-time-only" distribution to a quality so low that Babb wanted to cash in and move to his next stop as fast as possible.
As the film focused more on the controversial aspects of the tribal societies, it gained the attention of exploitation filmmakers, including Kroger Babb, whose Hallmark Productions distribution company acquired the American rights.
The director Steven Kessler offered "The Independent," a hilariously pointed mock documentary about Morty Fineman, a little-known - and nonexistent - exploitation filmmaker with a social conscience (played by Jerry Stiller, who seems to have gone prematurely blond).
A jovial Mr. Corman provides introductions to all three films, while the exploitation filmmaker Fred Olen Ray ("Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers," 1988) plays host to Ms. Jones-Moreland and Mr. Carbone for an amusing commentary track.
An exploitation filmmaker with a storied past, Williams is credited as director of the 1965 documentary "Peep Show" - a kind of spiritual vortex of sub rosa Americana surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
S. S. Millard: exploitation filmmaker.
He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker (rather than horror).
In 2001, Glyn Styler appeared in legendary exploitation filmmaker Doris Wishman's "Satan Was A Lady"[1] as Ed Baines.