Not Quite Hollywood on DVD!!!
A few months back I wrote about this documentary on Ozsploitation movies. It was to my mind the most surprising and best documentary of 2008, opening your eyes to a genre of seventies and eighties drive in flicks I never knew existed. Well great news! Not only is the doco itself available on DVD, with special features, some of the movies featured have been re-released too!
So I know what you’re thinking. 13 movies are out and that’s thirthy bucks each. Wrong! They have come out in a 2 volume ‘Ozsploitation pack’. One volume is R rated with six flicks. The other is M 15+ rated with another six great flicks. Both volumes and the Not Quite Hollywood doco are available at Borders at the Jam Factory. Each volume is $49.95. $100 for 12 movies is pretty decent. Full respect to the producers and distributors for keeping the price down.
Some of the 12 movies included were one of the Barry Mckenzie movies, one with Johnny Holmes, Roadgames with Jamie Lee Curtis. Bikie epic Stone is also on one of the volumes. And that is worth the price of admission alone.
There is one problem though. The movie I really wanted to see The Man From Hong Kong (here’s the trailer on Youtube) has been re-released in Australia. However Borders say it’s been on back order since October 2008. TMFHK is Australia’s one and only Kung Fu movie starring Jimmy Wang Yu and Bond guy George Lazenby. It has some killer car chases and great 1975 action.
Australian Muscle Car Magazine (an awesome mag by the way) did a great feature on the movie and the car stunts, talking up the re-release and the distribution’s been stuffed up!
Sadly I can’t find too much more about these DVDs. Not Quite Hollywood is available at Borders and JB Hifi though.
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under Movie Reviews, cars.
Comment from Brett McAleer
Time January 12, 2009 at 5:56 am
Regarding the two volumes of the “Ozploitation” DVDs, they are both available from Borders as well. I saw them on the shelf the other day.