"It's hard to believe there was a time when such progressive politics could be expressed in a drive-in movie," Dave Kehr wrote of Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island (1973), "but yes, Virginia, there was an early 70s." I'd argue that the era of subversive exploitation cinema continued after the Nixon presidency, as evidenced by such works as George Romero's Martin (1978), Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer (1979), and Chuck Vincent's Roommates (1981), which screens on 35-millimeter tomorrow at 7 PM at Doc Films.…
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