Ozploitation movies worth checking out.

There are so many amazing Ozploitation movies out there we couldn't possibly write up every one of them, so we've got a few list posts this month, and our first has some pretty epic amazingness...



Razorback: A giant killer boar terrorizes the locals and that's not the strangest thing that happens in this movie.

The director: Razorback was Russell Mulcahy's first feature film but he drew from his background directing new wave music videos (Duran Duran, The Buggles, Human League) to make this a visually interesting film.

Wildest scene: There's a scene involving a kangaroo hunt where the filmmakers went out with licensed kangaroo hunters to gather footage, of an real kangaroo hunt. You watch a lot of actual kangaroos die in this film.

You might recognize: Judy Morris (The Cars that Ate Paris; Arkie Whiteley, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior), and John Howard (Mad Max: Fury Road, as The People Eater himself).

That movie was a book?: Apparently Razorback was indeed a novel by Peter Brennan before it was a movie.

Thirst: A young woman is abducted by a cult of what she quickly discovers are vampires running a blood farm.

Was Henry Silva actually being dangled nine stories in the air?: Yes, and he was none too happy about it, they actually took him quite a bit higher than they told him they were going to.

You might recognize: Henry Silva (Ocean's Eleven (original and remake)), Max Phipps (The Toady from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior), and David Hemmings (Deep Red).

Road games: Hitch (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a hitchhiker picked up by Pat Quid (Stacy Keach). Quid's just witnessed a murder while big-rigging across Australia. Together Hitch and Quid will play a game of cat and mouse with a nomadic serial killer.

This movie is basically: Rear Window on a highway.

This is no low-budget slasher: With a budget of $1.75 million, this was the highest budget Australian film of it's time.

You might have also seen by this director: Patrick, Pchyo II, Cloak and Dagger, or F/X2.

Patrick: Since causing the death of his mother and her lover, Patrick has been in a comatose state... with his eyes wide open. Now he's fallen in love with one of the new nurses and he'll stop at nothing to have her affection.

This movie inspired: The coma scene from Kill Bill vol. 1.

The truly wild part?: This is a movie where the main character doesn't speak or blink for the entirety of the film. Who looks at that script and says "Yes! We're making that movie!"