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

Not Quite Hollywood The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation is a 2008 Australian documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and 80s lowbudget cinema. The film was written and directed by Mark Hartley, who interviewed over eighty Australian, American and British actors, directors, screenwriters and producers, including Quentin Tarantino, Brian TrenchardSmith, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, George Lazenby, George Miller, Barry Humphries, Stacy Keach and John Seale.

Not Quite Hollywood documents the revival of Australian cinema during the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 80s through Bmovies including Alvin Purple, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, DeadEnd Drive In, Long Weekend, Mad Max, The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick, Razorback, Road Games, Stork and Turkey Shoot. From 1971 through to the late 1980s, Australian directors began to take advantage of the newly introduced Rrating which allowed more onscreen nudity, sex and violence for audiences restricted to ageand over. Ozploitationwriterdirector Mark Hartleys own portmanteau of Australian exploitationwas a subgenre of the New Wave which accounted for the critically panned grossout comedies, sex romps, action and road movies, teen films, westerns, thrillers and horror films of the era, commonly overlooked in Australias official film history. The film addresses three main categories of Ozploitation films sex, horror and action.As a kid my parents and teachers insisted I see quality films like Picnic at Hanging Rock. Then I saw this movie Patrick, about a telekinetic coma victim, on commercial TV late one night and it thrilled, excited and downright scared me, just like the horror films made in the U.S. but with our voices, faces and places. I didnt know we could do that. ........

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