Growing up, one of my favourite film books was Movies of the Seventies, edited by David Thompson. One film it highlighted was Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout from 1971. The stills from the film looked absolutely stunning, with the plot synopsis fully whetting my appetite. I then read in the excellent and much missed Premiere magazine that …
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10. Road Games (1981) An Ozploitation classic that imported the great Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacey Keach to star in it. Keach plays a truck driver travelling across Oz who with the aid of a hitchhiker tries to track down a serial killer. For the longest time, Road Games was unavailable but this is no …
A massively dysfunctional couple decide to go Bush in their native Australia to try and salve their relationship. However, it appears that nature and the local ecology doesn't take kindly to two bickering and slobbish human beings invading and polluting their environ and decides to fight back. This is a terrific slice of Ozploitation with …
I've made a new Prisoner cell Block H video. Included are people going mad, a hanging, a religious cult AND MORE! The video is here. My previous video is here. Subscribe to my Prisoner themed YouTube channel here.
Exactly 30 years ago today, something extraordinary happened. Let me elaborate. I grew up in York in the UK. My local TV station was Yorkshire Television who were the first UK regional station to transmit twenty-four hours a day. Because of this during the night and early hours of the morning, they would show some …
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I've just reviewed Snapshot that was cheekily renamed 'The Day After Halloween' to capitalise on the success of John Carpenter's masterpiece. I remember the first time I saw this was on a copy of the soundtrack that I saw whilst browsing for soundtracks in the mid 90's when I had moved to London to study …
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 …
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 and they strike up a relationship through a typewriter that Patrick can telekinetically control …
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As some of you may know I'm a huge Prisoner Cell Block H fan. I actually think its the best TV series ever made. If you're into cult film, cult TV or video nasties/exploitation cinema then chances are you'll love Prisoner. I've just made a video documenting some of the most outrageous moments from the …
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I've just created a video of my Top 10 Prisoner Cell Block H characters. The videos here. For those of you who don't know I'm a huge Prisoner fan. I actually think its the best TV programme ever made. Yes, this is Meathook Cinema but with Prisoner being Cult TV at its finest I have …
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