Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
2008 · Movie · R · 103 min · ★ 6.8 · 86% critics
This documentary dives into the rough-and-ready wave of Australian low-budget exploitation movies that rose alongside more respected 1970s cinema. Through interviews and a barrage of wild clips, it traces how filmmakers embraced sex, violence, and genre thrills while building an underground scene that reached international audiences.
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Details
- Original title
- Not Quite Hollywood
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-08-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 86/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (95 votes)
About
You’ll enjoy this if you like fast, enthusiastic documentaries that celebrate cult movie history with tons of outrageous clips, like Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films; Not for you if explicit nudity, gore, or rapid-fire topic shifts wear you out.
Pros: energetic interviews; hilarious clip highlights; deep cult history | Cons: breakneck pacing; repetitive by the end; lots of nudity and gore
Themes
- filmmaking
- archive footage
- documentary filmmaking
- australian new wave
- cinema history
- testimony
- indigenous filmmaking
- australian cinema
- director interview
Cast & crew
Phillip Adams
as Self
Glory Annen
as Self
Christine Amor
as Self
- VA
Victoria Anoux
as Self
Briony Behets
as Self
Steve Bisley
as Self
Jamie Blanks
as Self
Graeme Blundell
as Self
Russell Boyd
as Self
Richard Brennan
as Self
Directed by Mark Hartley