A hitchhiker is murdered. The killer takes her body to his wheelbound brothers house and plans on disposing of the body. I knew nothing about End Play. I then decided to investigate when I saw that it was on YouTube. Every now and then I strike lucky by doing this. And in this instance I …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 17- End Play (1976)
Jackie goes for a drive and suddenly finds herself back in 1944 (!) at a place called Frenchman’s Farm. She witnesses a murder and then finds herself back in the present day. She starts to go to local libraries to try and research the place. This movie is the epitome of a mild, tame and …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 13- Frenchman’s Farm (1987)
This is a great documentary about Ozploitation films (exploitation films made in Australia). All the great films and sub-genres are here- the bawdy Ocker comedies, the slasher movies, the films for petrolheads. The main players are interviewed demonstrating that making these insane films was just as insane in real life. I’m so glad that so much …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 12- Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
Turkey Shoot follows three new inductees to a futuristic totalitarian torture camp for 'deviants'. It's presided over by Thatcher, who organises what he calls a 'turkey shoot' in which a handful of inmates are set free but then hunted for sport by himself and his similarly psychopathic guests. A stellar cast (Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 10- Turkey Shoot (1982)
Patrick Quid is a truck driver transporting meat to Perth with his pet dingo, Boswell. He stops outside a motel one night and, the next morning awakens to find Boswell growling at a garbage bag outside the truck. A resident of the motel (who we have seen earlier killing a young woman) is noticed by …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 5- Road Games (1981)
A gorgeous slice of Ozploitation that is extremely well made, acted and written. A young man named Patrick is in a coma after killing his parents three years earlier. A new nurse named Kathie has been assigned to tend to him. They strike up a relationship through a typewriter that Patrick can telekinetically control and …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 4- Patrick (1978)
A young schoolteacher tries to escape small-town Australia and reach Sydney…but gets waylayed in the darkest possible way. This is an amazing examination of small-town madness, the unspoken insanity of such a life and the brutality and destruction undertaken by men.It's also an amazing portrayal of cabin fever being caused by huge open spaces. The …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 3- Wake In Fright (1971)
I first learnt of this film when it was marketed as The Day After Halloween, a sequel to John Carpenter’s classic. It isn’t, but it’s still a really interesting movie. Angela (played by Prisoner Cell Block H’s brilliant Sigrid Thornton) is persuaded to ditch her low-paid hairdressing job and enter the world of modelling. Nude modelling. This …
Continue reading Marsupial March- 31 Days of Aussie Movies- Day 1- Snapshot (1979)
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I first learnt of this film as it was called The Day After Halloween and marketed as a sequel to John Carpenter's classic. It isn't. But it's still a really interesting movie. Angela (played by Prisoner Cell Block H's brilliant Sigrid Thornton) is persuaded to ditch her low paid hairdressing job and enter the world of …
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