Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

Director:

Mark Hartley

Writer:

Mark Hartley (written by)

Release Date:

28 August 2008 (Australia)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Finally an Aussie film packed full of boobs, pubes, tubes ... and a bit of kung fu.

Plot:

The story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence...

Plot Keywords:

Australian | Horror Filmmaking | Australian History | Exploitation Filmmaking | Sci Fi Filmmaking

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Phillip Adams	...	Himself
Glory Annen	...	Herself
Briony Behets	...	Herself
Steve Bisley	...	Himself
Jamie Blanks	...	Himself
Graeme Blundell	...	Himself
Russell Boyd	...	Himself
Richard Brennan	...	Himself
Tom Burstall	...	Himself
Dan Burstall	...	Himself
Robin Copping	...	Himself
Barry Crocker	...	Himself
Lynette Curran	...	Herself
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Herself
Cassandra Delaney	...	Herself

MPAA:

Rated R for graphic nudity, sexuality, violence and gore, some language and drug use.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Australia | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | UK:18 | USA:R | New Zealand:R18

Company:

City Films Worldwide

Movie Connections:

Features Stone (1974)

Joyous

A very fine documentary. I went into this at the London film Festival screening yesterday, never previously even having heard the term, ozploitation but came out ready to search out the films. A good film book will have you eager to google away to track down some hitherto unheard of 'must have' and this movie does the same. I felt I should have taken a notebook with me to take down some of the titles so enthusiastically spoken of. The films celebrated here were made in the 70s and 80s and are an Australian equivalent of what would usually be called drive in or exploitation movies. Sex, violence, cars and fighting is generally the name of the game and the more extreme and wild the better. Numerous, high quality clips from the movies leave one open mouthed and the people who made them tell us amusing anecdotes and horrifying details of things that went wrong. All of this would be enough but we also get generous helpings of Barry Humphries and the ever reliable, ever enthusiastic, Quentin Tarantino, just in case we were not already convinced that some of these trashy movies are just the greatest movies ever made. Joyous.