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 (NO... (Full plot summary below)
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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!
Leave your thoughts about Machete Maidens Unleashed!.
| TrespassGlenn DunksThis unofficial sequel to Not Quite Hollywood isn't as enjoyable as that title, its selection of films is less varied and less passionately produced, but it is still a wild and hysterical time at the movies. |
| CraveOnlineTodd Gilchristas engaging as it frequently is, Hartley's latest offers only a tourist's-eye view of its subject matter, crafting a unique, interesting documentary that fails to feel truly immersive. |
| User ReviewSpookie MThis is an amazing documentary that is informative and really funny. |
| User ReviewRicardo CThere is a ton of history about filming in the Philipinnes that I've never heard before. |
| User ReviewNicole MSolid doc, entirely entertaining and absolutely fascinating. |
| User ReviewJesse BNot Quite Hollywood was a lot better and more interesting, this felt a little too similar in style but offered a fun, gratuitous time. It did open up a whole new area of cinema for me, one that I didn't know existed. If you liked Not Quite Hollywood, you'll like this as well. |
| User ReviewSanjid PAnother excellent documentary. I was prepared with a pen & paper to write down all the titles of those awesome unseen films and already added plenty of them in my want-to-see list. Oh, sooo many more movies to watch! I wish I could have them all in a box set. |
| User ReviewMike BThis was a hoot! Worth the the flashback. |
| User ReviewTim Msounds like a pretty cool time in exploitation history |
| User ReviewScott CReally fun & informative documentary detailing a branch of the profitable 1970s exploitation market and the pros and cons of filming in the Philippines. These are the locations that spawned the popular women in prison (WIP) genre including Big Doll House, Women in Cages and Big Bird Cage and talks with the actors, directors, and crew about their experiences. John Landis offers the most hilariously glib observations and we also hear from Sid Haig, Joe Dante, and the low-budget producer extraordinaire himself Roger Corman. The films were profitable in part because they were so cheap, cutting corners by having dangerous stunts performed by untrained actors, primitive living and working conditions, and borrowing the Filipino army for big action scenes! Favorite title: Jeanie Bell starred as the black ass-kicking heroine in TNT Jackson, so following its success what do you call a film starring a white ass-kicking heroine? Firecracker! |
