This project analyzes the works of two filmmakers – the Brazilian Carlos Reichenbach, and the Argentinian Alberto Fischerman. Both have made their first films linked to counterculture movements of the 60s and 70s. A few years later, both of them became involved with exploitation productions. This study looks into the historical contexts in which these productions took place. It will also analyze the way both features were received by film critics. By focusing on these two films and the critical film writing they inspired, this study proposes two questions. First: If these directors, even when doing their exploitation works, have embedded in their productions doses of transgression and irony, which turned upside down what was originally an openly vulgar context. We will also look into the way the critics reacted to this subversive exploitation. In order to better grasp this reception by film pundits, a comparison between the two distinct contexts of Brazil and Argentina can enrich the analysis.