Over the past few years I’ve become quite the fan of Ozploitation films, and I’ve quite enjoyed the recent resurgence of Australian genre filmmaking. One of my more recent finds was the flawwed, yet still enjoyable, Australian zombie film Undead. And while it was a decent enough independent horror comedy, I must say I found it a bit surprising that the director’s of that film, The Spierig Brothers, were able to secure over $20 million to film their next project. The Australian vampire film Daybreakers.
I’m a bit at a loss on just what kind of film this will be, as the trailers seem to be pushing a glossy action pic, but judging by Undead I wouldn’t be surprised if Daybreakers ends up being a relatively decent budget schlock film. Complete with ridiculous effects, gaping plot holes and over zealous acting. Willem Dafoe is in it after all. And if its a good one, man do I hope it makes it to the multiplex.
Once again James and I sit down to discuss films both old and new, now with TWO working microphones! We dive head first into discussing MOON after our gag order has finally been lifted, let it be known that we get into pretty heavy spoilers, so much so that I will actually be including show notes for this episode to help people that wish to avoid them as best I can.
In this episode you also get to hear about James’ new coworkers picking a peck of pickled … ummm … well you’ll hear for yourself. And of course we cover our theme for this episode, When Animals Attack! We watched Link and Long Weekend, and with such a seemingly low brow sub-genre, it will be interesting to see if either of these films aspire to be anything more then schlocky scare fests that appeal to the lowest common denominator.
And of course at the end of the show we once again subject James to the selection gauntlet. What will be next episodes theme? And will James finally pick a movie that I want to watch?
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Thanks and hope you enjoy the show!
Show Notes 0:00 – Lions
2:35 – Introductions
12:10 – James opens a can of pickles
14:10 – MOON review
18:00 – MAJOR SPOILERS ALERT
37:15 – When Animals Attack!
39:00 – Link
64:00 – Long Weekend
83:40 – Next episodes theme and film selection
This boffo documentary from the land down under pulls back the curtain to reveal a treasure trove of truly absurd, weird and amazing genre films that were made in Australia in the 70’s and 80’s tht have come to be called Ozploitation. This just might be the best documentary released in theaters this year.
Director Russell Mulcahy (Razorback) returns to his Ozploitation roots with the over the top gangster mash-up Give ‘em Hell, Malone. I have no idea what the film is about or if it will actually get a theatrical release, but this trailer is gold.
Since I’ve been wallowing in the muck of Ozploitation and a few other less then “art” films (though I would argue they most certainly were artistic), I figured it would be time to take a drastic change in course and dive head first into the works of Samuel Fuller. While I’m not a huge fan of war films, I do have several that I like to watch, and Fuller is widely heralded for his own personal style and take on the war film that didn’t glorify it, but rather dragged the audience into the war itself. Needless to say I am very excited to watch The Steel Helmet.
Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch talk about The Steel Helmet
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