This essential guide to Australian exploitation cinema is roughly divided into three sections - adult comedies, horror movies and action films. Each section explored and unearthed via terrific tantalising clips and brilliantly blunt and forthright opinions from a cast of Antipodean players and international collaborators and fanboys ( yes Quentin Tarantino geeks out throughout with his usual motormouthed enthusiasm). This film really captures the devil may care dynamic of many exploitation classics from down under, a blatant disregard for decency, sanity and health and safety during many productions evident, plus a wonderfully candid exchange of opinions about various films under discussion without any care towards offending or infuriating those involved. A brilliantly eye-opening, and indeed at times eye-watering ode to Ozploitation cinema, I guarantee you will watch this delirious documentary whilst jotting down a list of films featured you are suddenly desperate to see.......Turkey Shoot, Next Of Kin, Stone, Fair Game, Patrick etc, etc!

Love, love, love this documentary on the explosion of the Australian exploitation fim industry. Moves along at break neck speed, often funny and very entertaining! Just make sure you have a pen and paper with you to make a note of all the films it highlights!

A highly entertaining look at the Australian exploitation cinema of the 70s and 80s, with equal time given to sexploitation, action flicks, and gory horror pics. The documentary does a great job of capturing the joyous sense of anarchy that comes from a group of young punks breaking the rules. Extra points for treating even the sleazy hucksters only in it for the cash as groundbreaking pioneers in their own right. A few points off for how it glosses over what eventually led to the end of the Ozploitation new wave; lax safety guidelines(to say the least), and ever more outrageous stunts led to several deaths on set, and these get barely a passing mention as the acceptable cost of making sure Dead End Drive-In is seen by the public.

Australian documentary about a lot of movies I will never get to see. Quentin Tarantino adds some good flavor.

This essential guide to Australian exploitation cinema is roughly divided into three sections - adult comedies, horror movies and action films. Each section explored and unearthed via terrific tantalising clips and brilliantly blunt and forthright opinions from a cast of Antipodean players and international collaborators and fanboys ( yes Quentin Tarantino geeks out throughout with his usual motormouthed enthusiasm). This film really captures the devil may care dynamic of many exploitation classics from down under, a blatant disregard for decency, sanity and health and safety during many productions evident, plus a wonderfully candid exchange of opinions about various films under discussion without any care towards offending or infuriating those involved. A brilliantly eye-opening, and indeed at times eye-watering ode to Ozploitation cinema, I guarantee you will watch this delirious documentary whilst jotting down a list of films featured you are suddenly desperate to see.......Turkey Shoot, Next Of Kin, Stone, Fair Game, Patrick etc, etc!

Australia is sort of like the Texas of England.

Brilliant documentary about the Ozploitation boom that everybody should see.

Cool documentary, but I felt there was maybe TOO much information and it was quite difficult to keep track of all the films they spoke about as they never mentioned the name again!
Apart from Patrick, Mad Max and BMX Bandits I didn't know any of these films, some of them I'm curious about and some others I don't think would translate outside of 1970's Australia so I doubt that I'll ever watch them.

This was an interesting look into a film culture I never knew actually existed. As an Australian it was great to see that there were people out there that were having a go at film-making and trying to make it uniquely Australian. As far as the structure of the film. It moved along a coherent timeline and was well structured however I think it moved way too fast and instead of just talking about film after film and what it was like on said films should more have talked about the atmosphere and idea behind Australian film-making. They do that but it's always injected or in reference to a film that happens to be on in spotlight at the time.

A great documentary charting a slew of odd, awesome, weird and wonderful B Movies made by and in Australia in the 60s/70s and 80s. Shame more of the films aren't available to purchase.

A highly entertaining look at the Australian exploitation cinema of the 70s and 80s, with equal time given to sexploitation, action flicks, and gory horror pics. The documentary does a great job of capturing the joyous sense of anarchy that comes from a group of young punks breaking the rules. Extra points for treating even the sleazy hucksters only in it for the cash as groundbreaking pioneers in their own right. A few points off for how it glosses over what eventually led to the end of the Ozploitation new wave; lax safety guidelines(to say the least), and ever more outrageous stunts led to several deaths on set, and these get barely a passing mention as the acceptable cost of making sure Dead End Drive-In is seen by the public.