Tag: Machete Maidens Unleashed
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Machete Maidens Unleashed (Australian Film Festival 2011)
The director of Not Quite Hollywood turns his attention to the countless sex-n’-violence epics produced in the Marcos-era Phillippines. This neglected corner of the film industry is given some additional light as the film plays at the Australian Film Festival.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: Machete Maidens Unleashed!/Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
There a number of documentaries screening at this year’s MIFF that look at the filmmaking process. Here are two such films, each dealing with the exploitation end of the business, focusing on markedly different eras – to say nothing of countries – but with overlapping themes and participants. In Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Not Quite Hollywood director Mark…
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