Round 2: Tossup 5

Note to players: specific term required. While shooting a 1969 film that parodies this genre, the Dreamlanders were nearly arrested on the JHU campus. For a film in this genre set in Sweden, the composer of “Twilight on the Sea” wrote a song popularized by Red Skelton, Benny Hill, and The Muppets; that song from a film in this genre is “Mah Nà Mah Nà.” A heart attack sustained while watching a 1962 film in this genre on TV killed Yves Klein. The orchestral theme “More” (“MOH-ray”) was written for a film in this genre by Riz (*) Ortolani. This genre’s name precedes a word meaning “dog,” cane (“KAH-nay”), in the title of the (10[1])film and idiom for which it is named; that film’s blend of graphic violence and realism influenced Cannibal Holocaust, whose crew were from the country that created this genre. For 10 points, what genre of exploitation documentary film has a name meaning “world” in Italian? (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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