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The Big Scream goes Down Under
The Big Scream returns to the Bristol Megascreen just in time for Halloween with Six Feet Down Under: two nights of cult Ozploitation, described as “a fair dinkum celebration of the grindhouse-style exploitation flicks that went troppo around the world in the 70s and 80s.”
On Fri 24 October, you can see the brilliant 1978 cult eco-horror Long Weekend, in which the outback’s beasties turn on a couple of vile yuppies, alongside 1982’s Next of Kin and 1993’s Body Melt.
The main attraction on Sat 25 October is Russell Mulcahy’s fabulous 1984 feature debut Razorback. Another great eco-horror (these were big at the time), this sees a giant porker wreaking horrible revenge upon a ghastly isolated Australian community. Also showing are the 1986 revenge thriller Fair Game and 1979 cult kidnap horror Thirst.
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“Long overlooked in histories of the country’s ’70s and ’80s film revival, Aussie genre cinema has been gaining more and more popularity across the world ever since Mark Hartley’s documentary Not Quite Hollywood popularised the phrase ‘Ozploitation’ back in 2008,” notes Dr Stephen Morgan, Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London and co-programmer of the London Australian Film Society & Festival, who will be introducing several screenings at this year’s Big Scream.
“To have Forbidden Worlds dedicate an entire Big Scream weekender to the wild and wonderful world of Ozploitation cinema is the blood-splattered icing on a cake of dubious origins.”
Tickets for The Big Scream are available now. Go here for details.
Main image from Razorback: Warner Bros. Pictures
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