
Rating: 7.5 stars
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Seen on: 11/12/2011
Most recently watched by krazykat, sensoria, noahphex
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
Rated NR | Length 85 minutes
Pam Grier | Joe Dante | John Landis | Sid Haig | Eddie Romero | R. Lee Ermey | Gloria Hendry | Colleen Camp | Celeste Yarnall | Jack Hill | Christopher Mitchum | Jonathan Kaplan | Paul Koslo | Allan Arkush | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Margaret Markov | Roger Corman | Dick Miller | Vic Diaz | Cirio H. Santiago | Leo Fong | Jayne Kennedy | Judith Brown | Marlene Clark | Eddie Garcia | Weng Weng | Leon Isaac Kennedy | Bobby A. Suarez | Danny Peary
A pretty fun, entertaining documentary that explores the exploitation of talent in the Philippines to churn out a lot of low budget films from the 1960s to the ‘80s. From the director of Not Quite Hollywood.
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