NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (Mongrel, 2008) D: Mark Hartley, w/ Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper. Rating: NNNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNNN
While movies like My Brilliant Career and Breaker Morant were picking up worldwide critical plaudits and festival trophies, another stream of Australian cinema was cranking out quickie cheapies devoted to blood, beasts and breasts. They called it Ozploitation.
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Key players and a ton of kick-ass clips tell the story from its 1970 beginnings in comic sexploitation with the likes of The Naked Bunyip through the horror years of Patrick into the hard action phase heralded by Mad Max. Along the way, there are bizarre production stories, out-of-control stunts, seriously tasteless humour, hardcore gore and much full-frontal nudity.
The tone is upbeat, but there’s room for the naysayers. Some people had bad experiences critic Bob Ellis despises the whole genre, and not even Quentin Tarantino, who never met a B movie he didn’t love, can find a good word for The Day After Halloween.
The extras offer more of the same lighthearted fun.
EXTRAS Commentary, Tarantino interviews Brian Trenchard-Smith. Widescreen. Spanish subtitles.
