Ozploitation
Ozploitation (a portmanteau of Australia and exploitation) films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian New Wave movement, and the Ozploitation style peaked within the same time frame (early 1970s to late 1980s). Ozploitation is often considered a smaller wave within the New Wave, "a time when break-neck-action, schlock-horror, ocker comedy and frisky sex romps joined a uniquely antipodean wave in exploitation cinema".
Background
The origin of the term "Ozploitation" is credited to the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!. This 2008 feature explores Ozploitation films made during the Australian New Wave. The film includes interviews with numerous figures involved in Ozploitation, as well as fans of the genre, including American director Quentin Tarantino, who coined the phrase "Aussiesploitation", which director Mark Hartley then shortened to "Ozploitation".[1]
Australian horror film production trebled from less than 20 films in the 1990s to over 60 films between 2000 and 2008.[2] According to one researcher, "global forces and emerging production and distribution models are challenging the 'narrowness' of cultural policy – a narrowness that mandates a particular film culture, circumscribes certain notions of value and limits the variety of films produced domestically. Despite their low-culture status, horror films have been well suited to the Australian film industry's financial limitations, they are a growth strategy for producers, and a training ground for emerging filmmakers".[3]
Filmography
1970s
- Stork (1971)
- Walkabout (1971)
- Wake in Fright (1971)
- Night of Fear (1972)
- The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
- Alvin Purple (1973)
- The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- Petersen (1974)
- Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
- Stone (1974)
- The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
- Scobie Malone (1975)
- Inn of the Damned (1975)
- Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
- Eliza Fraser (1976)
- End Play (1976)
- Fantasm (1976)
- Deathcheaters (1976)
- Fantasm Comes Again (1977)
- The FJ Holden (1977)
- Raw Deal (1977)
- Summer City (1977)
- The Scalp Merchant (1978)
- Patrick (1978)
- Money Movers (1978)
- Long Weekend (1978)
- Mad Max (1979)
- Thirst (1979)
- The Plumber (1979)
- Snapshot (1979)
- Felicity (1979)
1980s
- The Chain Reaction (1980)
- Nightmares (1980)
- Touch and Go (1980)
- Harlequin (1980)
- Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
- Centrespread (1981)
- Roadgames (1981)
- The Survivor (1981)
- Mad Max 2 (1981)
- Lady Stay Dead (1981)
- Running on Empty (1982)
- Turkey Shoot (1982)
- Attack Force Z (1982)
- Brothers (1982)
- Dead Easy (1982)
- Freedom (1982)
- Next of Kin (1982)
- The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
- Midnite Spares (1983)
- BMX Bandits (1983)
- Coming of Age (1984)
- Leonora (1984)
- Razorback (1984)
- Fortress (1985)
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
- Fair Game (1986)
- Frenchman's Farm (1986)
- Sky Pirates (1986)
- Frog Dreaming (1986)
- Run Chrissie Run! (1986)
- Dead End Drive-In (1986)
- Cassandra (1987)
- Dark Age (1987)
- Day of the Panther (1987)
- The Time Guardian (1987)
- Howling III (1987)
- Initiation (1987)
- Outback Vampires (1987)
- Dangerous Game (1987)
- Les Patterson Saves the World (1987)
- Running from the Guns (1987)
- Pandemonium (1987)
- As Time Goes By (1988)
- The Dreaming (1988)
- Out of the Body (1988)
- To Make a Killing (1988)
- Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989)
- Houseboat Horror (1989)
- Sons of Steel (1989)
1990s
- Bloodmoon (1990)
- Death in Brunswick (1990)
- Dead Sleep (1992)
- Hurricane Smith (1992)
- Bloodlust (1992)
- Body Melt (1993)
2000s
- Risk (2001)
- Undead (2003)
- Lost Things (2004)
- Feed (2005)
- Wolf Creek (2005)
- Rogue (2007)
- Storm Warning (2007)
- Black Water (2007)
- Dying Breed (2008)
- Lake Mungo (2008)
- The Horseman (2008)
- Long Weekend (2008)
- The Loved Ones (2009)
- Triangle (2009)
- Prey (2009)
2010s
- Road Train (2010)
- Animal Kingdom (2010)
- Bad Behaviour (2010)
- Arctic Blast (2010)
- The Reef (2010)
- The Clinic (2010)
- Needle (2010)
- Uninhabited (2010)
- Primal (2010)
- Blame (2010)
- Red Hill (2010)
- Crawl (2011)
- X: Night of Vengeance (2011)
- Bait 3D (2012)
- 100 Bloody Acres (2012)
- Patrick (2013)
- Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
- Wyrmwood (2014)
- The Rover (2014)
- The Mule (2014)
- Charlie's Farm (2014)
- The Suicide Theory (2014)
- Turkey Shoot (2014)
- Kill Me Three Times (2014)
- The Pack (2015)
- Lead Me Astray (2015)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl (2015)
- Better Watch Out (2016)
- Sheborg Massacre (2016)
- Spin Out (2016)[4]
- Scare Campaign (2016)
- Hounds of Love (2016)[5]
- Red Billabong (2016)
- Killing Ground (2016)
- Bad Blood (2017)
- Fags in the Fast Lane (2017)
- Cargo (2017)
- Musclecar (2017)
- Tarnation (2017)
- Occupation (2018)
- Boar (2018)
References
- ↑ "The Bazura Project 3.04 – Interview : The Bazura Project". www.bazuraproject.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
- ↑ "Horror brings film industry back from the grave" (13 October 2008), The Age. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ↑ Ryan , Mark David (2009) 'Whither culture? Australian horror films and the limitations of cultural policy'. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy(No 133). pp. 43-55.
- ↑ Film Review: Spin Out (2016) www.filmblerg.com Retrieved 2018-01-04
- ↑ Ozploitation on WikiHow http://www.wikinow.co Retrieved 2018-01-04
External links
- Ozploitation article @ THE DEUCE: Grindhouse Cinema Database