Definition:

depthsploitation
[depth-sploi-tey-shuhn]

As pertaining to motion pictures, describes any film that exploits, in its marketing or promotion, the use of stereoscopic (3-dimensional) filmmaking techniques.

This blog is my notepad as I research a nonfiction book spotlighting 3-D genre films of the last century. While the book will focus primarily on films from the 60's, 70's and 80's this blog has no restrictions.

All articles on this blog are copyright 2010-13 of its author,
Jason Pichonsky, unless otherwise stated.

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Out with the Old...

I hadn't planned to purchase a 3-D TV anytime soon. I had planned to wait at least until the technology becomes more commonplace.

But this Christmas, with the drop in HDTV prices, my family decided it was time to replace our 8 year old, overly large 36' CRT cabinet HDTV with something slimmer. Even then 3-D wasn't really a consideration. Along comes the Boxing Week sales and a pretty decent deal on a 3DTV package and we were there. The truth is had we waited and purchased a regular 3DTV within a few years I'd be pestering my wife to upgrade to 3-D anyway.

So it would seem that in addition to reviews on golden age and depthsploitation era 3-D film reviews, I may also be looking at newer home video releases. My first review can be found on Rue Morgue Magazine's blog here: Piranha 3D

More to come.