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MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED

Karate-kickin' midgets! Paper-mâché monsters! Busty babes with blades!

Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive-in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock-wave!

Mark Hartley's film is the ultimate insiders' account of a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packin' heat! The film features interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman - here at Filmfest this year in CORMAN'S WORLD  - Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero and a large assembly of cast, crew and critics, each with a jaw-dropping story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes. Strap yourselves in - and join us for a non-stop Filipino femme-fest, all the way from the jungles of the Pacific via the trash cans of the critics!

MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED
Wednesday, 29.06.2011, 10 pm, CinemaxX 5

There will be another screening of CORMAN'S WORLD for the press on Friday, 1.7., at 10 am in CinemaxX