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Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Australia

2010

85 Min

Color, Black and White

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Veronica Fury, Andrew Leavold

CAST R. Lee Ermey, Patrick Wayne, Colleen Camp, John Landis, Sid Haig, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Dick Miller, Carmen Argenziano, Jack Hill

SOUND Phillip Healy

Melbourne (Premiere Fund), Toronto (Real to Reel), Stockholm (Twilight Zone), Mar del Plata (Midnight Screamings), Rotterdam (Signals: Regained)

Synopsis

Blood! Breasts! Beasts! A brutal orgy of ghastly terror!

Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating drive-ins around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations!

The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood, MIFF 08) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and – more often than not – no clothes. —MIFF

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Beefy

13Jan12

More fun from the Not Quite Hollywood folks, this one a look at Corman's work in the Philippines. Sure, a bit more of the same, but still enjoyable.

Konrad Szlendak

28Dec11

This is a must-see for all exploitation maniacs. Very enlightening and very entertaining as well! I loved it!

Xurxo G Penalta

17Nov11

fun, educative and inspiring! must watch!!

Christopher Smith

31Oct11

Mark Hartley follows up the excellent 'Not Quite Hollywood' with basically more of the same, but this time set in the Philippines. But that same is still a tremendously entertaining look at cult cinema and those who make it, even if it doesn't quite generate the same kind of offbeat geek energy as 'Not Quite Hollywood'. A must for cult movie fans.

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