Karate-kicking midgets! Paper-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive-in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock-wave! At last, the all-too-often overlooked world of drive-in filler from Manilla gets the Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! This is the ultimate insiders' account of a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packing heat! Machete Maidens Unleashed! features interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero and a large assembly of cast, crew and critics, each with a jaw-dropping story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes. Strap yourselves in - and join us for a non-stop Filipino femme-fest, all the way from the jungles of the Pacific via the trash cans of the critics!
| Release Date: | Jul 2011 |
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| Genre: | Documentary |
| Cast: | Carmen Argenziano (Himself), Allan Arkush (Himself), John Ashley (Himself (archive footage)), Alan Birkinshaw (Himself), Judith Brown (Herself (as Judy Brown)), Andrea Cagan (Herself), Colleen Camp (Herself), Steve Carver (Himself), Leigh Christian (Herself), Marlene Clark (Herself), Roger Corman (Himself), Joe Dante (Himself), Jon Davison (Himself), Marissa Delgado (Herself), Nick Deocampo (Himself), Vic Diaz (Himself (archive footage)), R. Lee Ermey (Himself), Leo Fong (Himself), Eddie Garcia (Himself), Franco Guerrero (Himself), Sid Haig (Himself), Gloria Hendry (Herself), Jack Hill (Himself), Darby Hinton (Himself), Mark Holcomb (Himself), Lenore Kasdorf (Herself), Rosanne Katon (Herself), Jayne Kennedy (Herself), Leon Isaac Kennedy (Himself), Paul Koslo (Himself), John Landis (Himself), Marrie Lee (Herself), Margaret Markov (Herself), Jan Merlin (Himself), Dick Miller (Himself), Chris Mitchum (Himself), Eddie Nicart (Himself), Trina Parks (Herself), Danny Peary (Himself), Efren C. Piņon (Himself), Barbara Pokras (Herself), Corliss Randall (Herself), Susanne Reed (Herself), Ricardo Remias (Himself), Eddie Romero (Himself), Fred Roos (Himself), Laurie Rose (Herself), Digna Santiago (Herself), Jane Schaffer (Herself), Samuel M. Sherman (Himself), Dean Tavoularis (Himself), Pete Tombs (Himself), Brian Trenchard-Smith (Himself), Joe Viola (Himself), Patrick Wayne (Himself), Celeste Yarnall (Herself), Joseph Zucchero (Himself) |