Raiders of leyte gulf walls of hell bionic boy master samurai dynamite johnson. Directed by mark hartley, the man behind electric boogaloo. Melbourne international film festival in association with as melbourne international film festival premiere fund film victoria in association with screen queensland in association with. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and nonexistent health and safety regulations, the philippines was a dreamland for exploitation auteurs whose renegade productions were soon engulfing. In the 1970s and 80s, the place to be for making sleazy drivein fare wasnt hollywood back lots it was the lush jungles of the philippines. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. He also appeared in death feud 1990 and aftershock 1990. Jan 01, 2009 it was a terrific film, and arguably a major landmark in the subgenre of movies about movies. Machete maidens unleashed was an interesting watch about an obscure and unsung period of film history. Based on the eponymous character from the spy kids franchise, the film is an expansion of a fake trailer of the same name published as a part of the promotion of rodriguezs and quentin tarantinos 2007 grindhouse doublefeature. The largest film to come out of this period was apocalypse now. Great interviews and subjects but any interest i had in exploring the genre was kind of squashed be the repetitiveness and the interviewees pointing out. Toronto international film festival festival detail festival profiles. The alltoo often overlooked world of filipino exploitation flicks gets the mark hartley not quite hollywood, miff 08 treatment in machete maidens unleashed.
Machete maidens unleashed takes an equally unabashed look at the filipino exploitation genre and promises just as much blood, babes, and zaniness. A list of movies featured in the documentary machete maidens unleashed. Santiago, sid haig, joe dante, john landis, roger corman, jack hill, pam grier, marlene clark, steve carver, colleen camp, alan birkinshaw, jon davison, and lots of other groovy people. Film trailers are inherently advertisements, and as such i present them here. Most recently, mitchum appeared on the documentary machete maidens unleashed.
Machete maidens unleashed, a list of films by martijn omg. With roger corman, john landis, pete tombs, mark holcomb. I was impressed at the number of people they tracked down to interview for the film. Video archive for the film machete maidens unleashed. Machete maidens is a documentary about the philippines under dictatorship hosting hundreds of bmovie genrefilms productions a year, mostly during the 70s and 80s.
Sep 24, 2010 reel to real usa, 2010, 87 minutesdirected by. United states september 3, 2010 nationwide canada september 3, 2010. Machete maidens unleashed the grindhouse cinema database. Aug 18, 2010 video archive for the film machete maidens unleashed. Electric boogaloo, the wild untold story of cannon films trailers. Machete was released in 2010 on friday, september 3, 2010 in 2,670 theaters. Most of the others, with titles like buckets of blood and caged women were not quite so big budget. So naturally i grabbed my writing instruments and went into machete maidens unleashed expecting a list of films for my sexual. Leon isaac kennedy rose to fame as an actor, gracing the silver screen many times over the course of his hollywood career. Director robert rodriguez is working machete, a thriller action movie based on a script he wrote.
This is machete maidens unleashed trailer by wildbear digital on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Machete maidens unleashed 2010, from director mark hartley and producer veronica fury, is 84 minutes of pure joy for lovers of cheap and fun cinema. Womens breasts are seen throughout the movie in old films as well as very few shots of bare ass. The wild, untold story of cannon films cormans world. The film can boast an impressive ensemble cast with danny trejo in the lead role. In the final decades of the 20th century, the philippines was a country where lowbudget exploitation film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. The film is laced with commentary by cult movie icons such as roger corman, joe dante, john landis, sid haig, eddie romero and an assembly of cast, crew and critics. Machete maidens unleashed join us for a nonstop filipino femmefest, all the way from the jungles of the pacific via the trash cans of the critics.
The film also fleshes out those corman anecdotes into a fulllength tale about the mix of filipino and american bmovie talents during the glory days of grindhouse cinema. There were 7 other movies released on the same date, including going the distance, the winning season and clear blue tuesday. Staring john ashley, alan birkinshaw, carmen argenziano and colleen camp. Most recently, kennedy appeared on machete maidens unleashed. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and nonexistent health and safety regulations, the philippines were a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade. A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of filipino genre filmmaking. Machete is a 2010 american exploitation action film written and directed by robert rodriguez and ethan maniquis. Featuring interviews with roger corman, joe dante, john landis, eddie romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts. The wild, untold story of cannon films, comes machete maidens unleashed.
Filipino genre films of the 1970s and 80s had it all. Jul 02, 2010 machete maidens unleashed takes an equally unabashed look at the filipino exploitation genre and promises just as much blood, babes, and zaniness as its aussie predecessor. From the early 70s well into the 90s the philippines was a backlot for a bevy of renegade bmovie makers and cinema visionaries alike. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Its a fast moving but pretty informative look at exploitation films in the late 60s, 70s and early 80s. All blazing trailers videos include links to purchase the films where applicable. To the exploitation filmmakers of the 1970s and 1980s there was no stunt too risky, no story too ridiculous, and no clothing that could not be removed in the name of mass entertainment. In the 1960s and 70s, drivein movie theaters and big city grindhouses were eager to book the wildest and most actionpacked fare they could find, and. Everything you need to know about machete movie 2010. Featuring interviews with gloria hendry, colleen camp, sid haig, r. This is machete maidens unleashed trailer by mpi media group on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The movie machete is set for a release on april 16, 2010. In the final decades of the 20th century, the philippines was a country where lowbudget exploitationfilm producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased.
Machete is a wholly entertaining film, but i found myself completely unmoved by comparison after watching it a second time, and unfortunately this is the asset i most highly prize in a film. The makers of the warm and enlightening not quite hollywood work a similar kind of magic with their chosen subject here, the array of talking heads keen to share their. If no channel is shown there may be no upcoming episodes of machete maidens unleashed. Machete maidens unleashed on dvd 030306818993 from mpi. It was a terrific film, and arguably a major landmark in the subgenre of movies about movies. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Mammary mayhem abounds in machete maidens unleashed. Drawn to the island nation by the plentiful, cheap labor and lack of safety standards, american bmovie producers ground out grindhouse pics by the hundreds set in womens prisons, cannibal camps, fascist dictatorships and jungle hellholes of all. Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Great interviews and subjects but any interest i had in exploring the genre was kind of squashed be the repetitiveness and the interviewees pointing out that these movies are shit, even if theyre enjoyable shit. Following the grim, alltootimely subjects of errol morris last two backtoback documentaries the fog of war and standard operating procedure, the simplytitled tabloid is every bit as frothy and ultimately throwaway as the term would promise.
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