ThiefHott Too much of everything

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Cortechba Overrated

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Sean Lamberger A quick-hits love letter to "Ozploitation" films, the stampede of cruddy cut-rate B movies bred by the Australian cultural craze of the 70s and 80s. It's well-produced, with loads of shiny transitions and a few familiar faces on the couch (Quentin Tarantino, unsurprisingly, is an energetic fan) but it's all cut together with the short attention span you might expect from an episode of VH-1's I Love the 80s. A bunch of talking heads, mostly non-celebrities, gushing about their favorite cinematic turds like a kid on a sugar rush. At least they're passionate about the subject. That whirlwind of mid-sentence breaks left me feeling dizzied and weary, though, with its constant, breakneck topic shifts, and eventually drained the premise dry. The clips can be very funny, in a "how did that get filmed" sense, but it's easy to get the impression that we're really seeing the only worthwhile shreds of these bombs, and by the end it was all starting to feel a bit boring and redundant. Still, true to the era, there's plenty of footage to fill a solid fifteen-minute devotion to gratuitous nudity, so it does have that going for it.

geoffwadick For an Australian my age the movies discussed in this documentary were not common viewing. However having this whole period of the beginning , ( 60's and 70's ) of the "new" revival of the Australian film industry placed before me so succinctly makes me want to go out and purchase all the films that were discussed . I also had no idea that these films were actually picked up by the Americans for distribution and in fact some of the big names of American film were encouraged to come all the way to Australia to participate in their making , albeit early in their careers . I must add that had I not been up late - yes after midnight - I would not have seen and thus missed this historical documentary altogether . Why do they put these great things on so late - probably because only die hard film buffs are the only ones up . Does anyone know if not the films than at least this documentary is available for purchase.

tomgillespie2002 Five years in the making, director Mark Hartley's documentary is his love-letter to the films he grew up with as a child. Like the majority of us film-lovers, we would occasionally stay up late and watch whatever crap late night television would show, whether it involved giant monsters, lesbian vampires, or gruesome horror. Hartley grew up in Australia, and he witnessed first hand the boom in Australia that saw their most prolific time in movie production, producing some of the most full-on B-movies of the time. Disappointed that writings on Australia cinema always failed to recognise this sub-genre, Hartley sent his synopsis to Quentin Tarantino, a long-time fan of 'ozploitation', who helped Hartley fund the project, and himself sitting in as the key interviewee.As much I love his work, minus the pretty shoddy Death Proof (2007), Tarantino is possibly the most annoying person on Earth. I appreciate his enthusiasm, but he's such a shameless dork that I just want to punch him. And seeing him for long periods of this pretty good documentary just brings the film down. More interesting, however, are the interviews with the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach, Dennis Hopper, George Lazemby, and probably the most famous and prolific director of the period, Brian Trenchard-Smith. The film certainly opened my eyes to a sub-genre that I have until now neglected (apart from the globally popular Mad Max (1979)) and introduced me some films that actually look pretty good (namely psychokinetic thriller Patrick (1978), which I hope to watch very soon).The documentary itself is obviously designed to be as entertaining as possible. Images, interviews, effects and film-clips fly at you at a relentless speed. Trying to keep in tone with the fast paced enjoyment of the B-movies it is showing, it does this at the cost of allowing the audience to absorb all the information. I don't mean it's hard to keep up with, I would just have liked the pace to slow down a touch so I can differentiate between the films it shows, and the various anecdotes given about their production. At the end of the film I could barely remember any specific films, just a blur of scenes. But like I said, it's certainly fun, and some of the visuals are wonderfully designed, especially the title sequence. Overall, a must-see for exploitation fans - the film is very well researched and Hartley clearly knows his s**t - but nothing exactly ground-breaking for documentary fans.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Ali Snavely After watching this awesome movie, I was more in love with Tarantino than ever and psyched to watch as many of the referenced movies as I could get my hands on (with a few exceptions that didn't appeal to me). I desperately searched online for a list of the movies they referenced, but could find NOTHING complete, so I watched it again and typed up a list as I went, with the titles and years of all the movies they list. I believe it's complete, and I think all the years are correct, but please correct me if I'm mistaken! I broke them down by genre like they did in the film. Hope this benefits someone!! Happy hunting!*Foreign/Negative Portrayal of Australia* Age of Consent 1969; Ned Kelly 1970; Wake in Fright 1971; Walkabout 1971*Sex/Crude Humor* The Naked Bunyip 1970; Stork 1971; The Adventures of Barry McKenzie 1972; Barry McKenzie Holds his Own 1974; 96—TV show; Alvin Purple 1973; Alvin Rides Again 1974; Eliza Fraser 1976; Australia After Dark 1975; The ABC of Love and Sex Australia Style 1978; Felicity 1978; The True Story of Eskimo Nell 1974; Hoodwink 1981; Centrespread 1981; Fantasm 1976; Fantasm Comes Again 1977; Pacific Banana 1980*Scary/Buckets of Blood* Inn of the Damned 1974; Night of Fear 1972; Lady Stay Dead 1982; Brothers 1982; Patrick 1976; Long Weekend 1978; Snapshot, aka Day After Halloween (US title) 1979; Thirst 1979; Harlequin 1980; The Survivor 1980; Roadgames 1981; Nightmares 1980; Howling III: the Marsupials 1987; Razorback 1984; Dark Age 1985; Next of Kin 1981 *Hard Core Action* Stone 1974; Mad Dog Morgan 1976; The Man From Hong Kong 1975; Death Cheaters 1976; Stunt Rock 1978; Mad Max 1979; Chain Reaction 1979; Midnight Spares 1982; Race for the Yankee Zephyr 1981; Turkey Shoot 1981; BMX Bandits 1983; Fair Game 1985; Sky Pirates 1986; Return of Captain Invincible 1982; Dead End Drive In 1985; Blood Moon 1990 *Newer Stuff*--not necessarily Australian, but in the same vein-- Wolf Creek 2004; Undead 2003; Storm Warning 2007; Saw 2004; Rogue 2007