Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard Franklin’s 1981 Australian slasher classic ROADGAMES, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Keach plays Quid, an American trucker who, with the help of Curtis’s hitchhiker, tracks down a serial killer active on the long, empty roads of southern…
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LONG WEEKEND ***** Australia 1978 Dir: Colin Eggleston. 91 mins A two-handed microcosm of ecological collapse, this Australian entry in the 70’s eco horror cycle captures an escalating series of quietly disturbing incidents en route to a nihilistic conclusion. It’s closer in tone and execution to THE BIRDS and FROGS,…
Nature wreaks its revenge when a couple’s careless behaviour causes havoc in the Australian wild, in the LONG WEEKEND. This Ozploitation classic from director Colin Eggleston (Innocent Prey), heads to Blu-ray for the first time in the UK with an extras-laden package courtesy of Second Sight on 5th November 2018.…
For fans of Ozploitation it is the likes of MAD MAX (1980) or even the trash-tastic TURKEY SHOOT (1982) that may first pop into many a horror hound’s mind – however, the cycle offered so much more and never is this clearer than with the surrealist shocks of HARLEQUIN (1980)…