Graeme Blundell plays a not quite with-it researcher in this two-and-a-half-hour colour documentary on Australian attitudes to sex and censorship. His rather erratic approach to…
Browsing: Ozploitation
This disturbing Ozploitation gothic horror-thriller centres on a young woman named Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin), who inherits her mother’s sprawling country mansion, Montclare – the…
A young woman (Briony Behets) is riding her horse in the forest but is left to walk when her horse bolts. She is then stalked and…
The term “Ozploitation” refers to low-budget Australian-produced exploitation genre filmmaking of the 1970s and 80s. From bawdy sex comedies like Alvin Purple (1973) to horror…
The bawdy adventures of two Australian pilots working for Banana Airlines, a small low-rent South Pacific airline, as they cavort around the South Pacific. Paul (Robin…
Not to be confused with the 1982 American movie of the same name, this Australian film – which owes a great debt to both John…
“He’s In A Coma . . . Yet He Can Kill” promised the tagline for the 1978 Australian film Patrick, helpfully establishing both the film’s…
Tony ‘Jock’ Petersen (Jack Thompson), an electrician and ex-Australian Rules footballer, decides in his 30’s to go to university to study for an arts degree.…
This no-budget Ozploitation soft-core ‘sex comedy’ set in Perth features seedy Aussie private investigator Horatio Plugg (Peter Thompson), who is on the case of Pussycat…
Anthropologist Jill Cowper (Judy Morris) is writing her thesis for her Master’s at home in a University campus apartment complex in Adelaide. One day -…
This mystery thriller set in the Australian outback revolves around a ferocious 500-kilogram feral boar – or razorback. It’s essentially Jaws with a pig . . .…
“Into the blue!” In World War II, Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) used his superpowers against gangsters and the Nazis, and he was a hero. But…
A heroine called “Hitch” for most of the film is just one of the jokes in a film full of them. Director Richard Franklin’s obvious…
This fast-paced Ozploitation action film revolves around Mike (Terry Serio), a steelworker by day and a budding street racer by night. With help from his…
Jack Thompson stars as Detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is investigating the death of high-class prostitute Helga Brand in a story based on a novel…
This camp low-budget musical sci-fi film from Australia makes little sense, but first-time director Gary L Keady – who also produced, wrote the script (several…
A cult Australian-made drama about a hip young undercover drug squad detective called Stone (Ken Shorter) who infiltrates the Sydney biker scene to investigate a…
“Stork” is a 6ft 7-inch streak of piss topped by lank hair, spectacles and a groper-mouth bursting with teeth, who looks like he has been…
Legendary “Ozploitation” filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith directed this hyper-energetic, nearly plotless “mockumentary” celebrating 1970s daredevil stunt work and theatrical hard rock, which became a cult classic.…
Set in Australia in the 1960s, Summer City follows four Sydney youths who go on a stag weekend to commemorate the coming marriage of one of…