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In the annals of grindhouse exploitation cinema, Italy owns the giallo, Australia offers Ozploitation, and Sweden has spawned… the SENSATIONSFILM!

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ISBN 978-09796163-6-5
320pp trade paperback, w/8pp sensational color section
Foreword by Christina Lindberg (Thriller, Maid in Sweden)
Features over 200 reviews of strange and sexy Swedish films
Full-color insert features rare vintage film posters and lobby cards
Original cover artwork by Wes Benscoter (Black Sabbath, Slayer)

In 1911, Sweden enacted the world’s first government board of film censors, provoking a century-long war against filmmakers that outlived two World Wars, communism, and the sexual revolution. In 2011, the censors finally surrendered—and SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS declares victory with a fiery retrospective of over 200 often banned and cut films produced during the golden age of Swedish sin. PLUS: First-hand accounts by starlet Christina Lindberg (Thriller: En Grym Film, Maid in Sweden); scores of rare exhibition posters and images, a glossary of curious Swedish customs; and an uninhibited cast of thousands, including: Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August, Lee Hazlewood, Dennis Hopper, Max von Sydow, David Carradine, Heinz Hopf, Harry Reems, Noomi Rapace, Marie Forså, Troy Donahue, Zinny Zan, and Ludde the dog.

Produced in the backyard of the Swedish film industry, these sexually daring films form a canon of countless sensational movies dealing with shocking or taboo subjects—street punks, sadistic mobsters, space aliens, unruly housewives, ruthless drug pushers, bloodthirsty ninjas, teen temptresses, lingonberry cowboys, bearded perverts, and drunken vikings—all simply too strange to ignore.

Once again, Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth delves into the arcane culture and contradictions of his homeland, returning with the first comprehensive overview of Swedish Sensationsfilms—the Scandinavian scourge of the world’s exploitation cinema.

“I look back with genuine joy. I am so very happy I could be a part of the seventies, it was so incredibly interesting. I carry it with me; it is a part of me. I would never deny being in those movies. I know that a lot of people do so, but I just had a blast.”— Christina Lindberg

“Into this rising whirlwind of madness, I was born. As the ‘70s came along, all limits were forgotten. Sweden was flooded with sexually explicit and violent films of every kind…and all morals were gone.”—Daniel Ekeroth

Read the “SINSational Sweden” interview with Daniel Ekeroth HERE.

“Ekeroth’s critiques seem dead-on and are always humorous. They are sensations in themselves.”—The Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald

“Ekeroth dives into his subject matter with the kind of attention to detail that even celebrated documentarian Ken Burns could appreciate.”—AOL Noisecreep

“This encyclopedic overview of the grimy-great underbelly of Swedish filmmaking reveals more delightfully depraved and downright perverse ‘sensationsfilms’ than possibly even Lisbeth Salander could countenance.”—Austin Chronicle

“Filled with skin and sin, the rabid hellhounds of Euro trash cinema will rejoice in getting their killer kicks from yet another exploitation avenue rife for exploration.”—Cool Ass Cinema

“A multifaceted account of the sensational sleaze of the ’60s and beyond”—Fangoria

“Amazing book… Ekeroth deftly separates the trash from the triumphs. Remarkable!”—Shock Cinema

“An enormously entertaining and extremely informative book on an often-overlooked film movement…one of the first must-have books on film from this young decade”—Moon in the Gutter

“Interesting and well-researched… If a movie was made in Sweden from 1951 to 1993, and included an abundance of sex, violence or weirdness, Daniel has tracked it down, trapped it, stunned it, reviewed it, researched it, and reported back to you the reader with how he feels about it. You need a Swede to traverse these sinful waters, and Ekeroth is paddling at full throttle.”—Robin Bougie, Cinema Sewer

“A guided tour through the sinsational history of sex, drugs, and kickpunching in Swedish cinema…how can you possibly resist?”—Mr. Skin

“Ekeroth has dug up a million idle hours of eye-to-the-grindstone page-turning sensation for curious readers…a page-turning must”—Bright Lights Film Journal

“Where else are you going to learn about films like Dirty Fingers, Scorched Heat, The Guesthoust Of Evil, Mona’s Secret Sex Dreams and the wonderfully titled How Marie Met Fredrik, Rebus The Donkey, Ploj The Kangeroo, And…“—RockShockPop.com