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

2008

Action / Documentary / History

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 95% · 65 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 4878 4.9K

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Plot summary

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Director

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Mark Hartley

Top cast

Quentin Tarantino Photo
Quentin Tarantino as Self
Jamie Lee Curtis Photo
Jamie Lee Curtis as Self
James Wan Photo
James Wan as Self
Dennis Hopper Photo
Dennis Hopper as Self
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Jack F 9 / 10

I wish I could have gotten into these

I wish I could have gotten into these kinds of movies as they were being released. I just didn't know about them. I've seen Wolf Creek and Mad Max though. I love exploitation films, and it was cool seeing what was being made in Australia.
Reviewed by Wayne K 9 / 10

As a person who spent 2 years living

As a person who spent 2 years living in Australia, I’m always happy to see documentaries and exposes which examine and reveal its incredible culture to the wider world, and as a film fan, learning about the history of cinema and all it’s permutations has always appealed to me. So Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story Of Ozploitation is pretty much a perfect marriage in my eyes. I recently became fascinated by Ozploitation flicks after covering a few of them on a podcast, and so it made sense to actually check the documentary out to see why this seedy little cinematic subculture is so legendary. Cramming in more T & A than your typical late night skin flick and more blood and gore than a Hershell Gordon Lewis marathon, it covers the history of the subgenre, right up to modern times, and while it’s mostly a celebration of the films and those who made them, its not a hagiography. We hear plenty of comments from people who didn’t enjoy the films or had a bad time making them. Theres a real sense of balance throughout, and little is done to gloss over just how cheap and clunky many of the movies were. In fact, this is celebrated as an example of ad hoc, derring-do filmmaking, where people with little money and basically no resources were able to cobble to together films that audiences loved, that packed out drive-in theatres and drove snobby critics and establishment types crazy. It’s not so much an in-depth look at a few of the most significant exploitation films as it is a whistle stop tour of many of the most infamous and successful. It’s rare that a documentary is paced like this, and as a result it can sometimes be hard to understand what some of the interviewees are saying. It is great seeing some like Quentin Tarantino geeking out over the films that he grew up watching, extolling the virtues of movies that most people either haven’t seen or would have no interest in watching. It gave me a whole bunch of movies to add to my watch later list, and an extra level of appreciation for the mad men and women who worked so hard to establish their careers in films that brought them little critical acclaim, but a whole lotta fans. Ozploitation, may your spirit never die!
Reviewed by Logan D 8 / 10

Who needs art when we can have boobs

Who needs art when we can have boobs, violence, and gore? I'm saddened I missed out on the gonzo films released from the land down under when I was younger. I did get to enjoy Felicity with repeat viewings on Showtime. This film is an entertaining and interesting glimpse into a film style that wouldn't succeed in today's cinema.
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