Exploitation films

Alvin Purple

The sex comedy that funded the entire boom. Historically important, hard going.

Stunt Rock

No plot. A stuntman and a prog band. Exists purely so Grant Page can work.

Next of Kin

A slow-burn gothic in a nursing home. Much better than its obscurity suggests.

Snapshot

A young model is stalked after a nude shoot. A slow-burn Australian thriller with a real sense of dread.

Turkey Shoot

The budget vanished mid-shoot and they kept going. Chaotic, mean, fun.

Fair Game

A woman alone at an outback wildlife reserve is hunted by three kangaroo poachers. Lean and nasty.

Thirst

A secret society farms humans for blood. Ozploitation does vampires as corporate agribusiness.

Dead End Drive-In

A drive-in turned into an internment camp. The satire is not subtle.

Long Weekend

A couple litter, and Australia decides to kill them. Excellent.

Patrick

A man in a coma does telekinesis. Better than that sentence implies.

Stone

Australia's outlaw-biker scripture. Mad Max drank from this tank.

Razorback

A giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.

The Man from Hong Kong

Jimmy Wang Yu wrecks Sydney, with hang-gliding and a man actually on fire. Peak crossover.

Road Games

Rear Window in a truck, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis.

The Cars That Ate Paris

Peter Weir's debut. A town that farms car crashes. Very strange.

Wake in Fright

A masterpiece and an ordeal. The kangaroo hunt is real footage and it is unbearable.

Mad Max 2

The template the whole Italian post-nuke cycle copied for a decade.

Mad Max

Made for nothing on public roads. You can feel every dollar missing.