Airdate: Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Not Quite Hollywood's Mark Hartley now turns his attention to flicks from the Philippines that featured kick-ass female leads.
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Mark Hartley, who produced the “Ozploitation” documentary Not Quite Hollywood, now turns his attention to flicks from the Philippines that featured kick-ass female leads such as Mad Dr. of Blood Island, Big Doll House, Up from the Depths, and TNT Jackson.
Karate kickin’ midgets! Papier mâché monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the ’70s and ’80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock wave!
Now, the all too often overlooked world of the drive in filler from Manila gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) treatment. This is the ultimate insiders’ account of a faraway back lot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make up guy was packin’ heat!
Machete Maidens Unleashed! features interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero, Australian Brian Trenchard Smith and a large assembly of cast, crew and critics, each with a jaw dropping story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and more often than not no clothes.
Strap yourselves in for a non stop Filipino femme fest, all the way from the jungles of the Pacific via the trash cans of the critics!
It airs 9:30pm Thursday May 12 on ABC1.
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I love ABC these days, especially for them showing Night of The Living Dead.
The full-length version (which screened at MIFF last year) is out on DVD the day before, and comes with a ton of bonus material. I’d grab that instead.
what i don’t like the ABC doing is showing cut versions of feature-length documentaries.”Whatever Happened to Brenda Hearn” and “Contact” have recieved the same treatment. Don’t the ABC own rights to boradcast the full feature-length documentary but instead show a shorter 55min version.