Ausploitation or “Ozploitation” Cinema (the favored shortened term) became highly successful throughout the 70s and 80s due to two main factors: tax cuts which gave producers the boost to make movies and the country’s then new R-rating. The filmmakers of the day finally had the chance to supply audiences with […]
Ozploitation
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In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. Blaxploitation In the early 1970s the Civil Rights Movement was raging and Hollywood began to focus on […]
FILM REVIEW Based on a 1961 book written by Kenneth Cook, Wake In Fright tells the story of John Grant (Gary Bond) a bonded British school teacher who has been stuck working in the desolate Outback town of Tiboonda. Grant hates his job and has made plans to visit his […]