Ozploitation
Ozploitation films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian New Wave movement, and the Ozploitation style peaked within the same time frame.
Ozploitation is often considered a smaller wave within the New Wave, covering a wide range of genres from sexploitation, biker films, horror and even martial arts.
The origin of the term "Ozploitation" is credited to the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!. This 2008 feature explores Ozploitation films made during the Australian New Wave. The film includes interviews with numerous figures involved in Ozploitation, as well as fans of the genre, including American director Quentin Tarantino, who coined the phrase "Aussiesploitation", which director Mark Hartley then shortened to "Ozploitation".
Background
Australian horror film production trebled from fewer than 20 films in the 1990s to over 60 films between 2000 and 2008. According to Mark David Ryan, "global forces and emerging production and distribution models are challenging the 'narrowness' of cultural policy – a narrowness that mandates a particular film culture, circumscribes certain notions of value and limits the variety of films produced domestically. Despite their low-culture status, horror films have been well suited to the Australian film industry's financial limitations, they are a growth strategy for producers, and a training ground for emerging filmmakers".Filmography
1970s
Source:The Naked Bunyip Stork Walkabout Wake in Fright Night of Fear The Adventures of Barry McKenzie Alvin Purple Libido The Cars That Ate Paris Petersen Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Stone Alvin Rides Again The Love Epidemic The True Story of Eskimo Nell The Man from Hong Kong Plugg Scobie Malone Inn of the Damned Australia After Dark The Great Macarthy Sidecar Racers Mad Dog Morgan Eliza Fraser End Play Fantasm Deathcheaters Don's Party Oz Fantasm Comes Again The FJ Holden Raw Deal Journey Among Women Summer City The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style The Scalp Merchant Stunt Rock Patrick Money Movers Long Weekend Mad Max The Last of the Knucklemen Thirst The Plumber Snapshot- ''Felicity''
1980s
Source:The Chain Reaction Nightmares Touch and Go Harlequin Final Cut Race for the Yankee Zephyr Centrespread Roadgames Pacific Banana The Survivor Mad Max 2 Lady Stay Dead Strange Behavior Alison's Birthday Hoodwink The Killing of Angel Street Running on Empty Turkey Shoot Attack Force Z Brothers Dead Easy Freedom Next of Kin A Dangerous Summer Crosstalk The Return of Captain Invincible Midnite Spares BMX Bandits Innocent Prey Goodbye Paradise Hostage Coming of Age Leonora One Night Stand Razorback Melvin, Son of Alvin Fortress Wills & Burke Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Fair Game Frenchman's Farm Sky Pirates Windrider Frog Dreaming Run Chrissie Run! Dead End Drive-In Cassandra Dark Age Day of the Panther The Time Guardian Howling III Initiation Outback Vampires Dangerous Game Les Patterson Saves the World Running from the Guns Pandemonium Coda Contagion As Time Goes By The Dreaming Out of the Body To Make a Killing Incident at Raven's Gate Kadaicha Breaking Loose Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds Houseboat Horror- ''Sons of Steel''
1990s
Source:Bloodmoon Death in Brunswick Sher Mountain Killings Mystery Dead Sleep Fatal Bond Hurricane Smith Bloodlust Body Melt- ''Signal One''
2000s
Source:Cut Cubbyhouse Risk He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Gettin' Square Undead Visitors Lost Things Feed Wolf Creek Solo Rogue Storm Warning Black Water Gabriel Gone Dying Breed Lake Mungo The Horseman Long Weekend Acolytes The Loved Ones Triangle Prey Coffin Rock- ''Crush''
2010s
Source:Daybreakers Road Train Animal Kingdom Bad Behaviour The Reef The Clinic Needle Uninhabited Primal Blame Red Hill Crawl The Tunnel X: Night of Vengeance Bait 3D 100 Bloody Acres Crawlspace Patrick Wolf Creek 2 Wyrmwood The Rover Lemon Tree Passage The Mule Charlie's Farm The Suicide Theory Turkey Shoot Kill Me Three Times Plague The Pack Lead Me Astray Mad Max: Fury Road StalkHer Infini Terminus Better Watch Out Sheborg Massacre Down Under Spin Out Scare Campaign Red Billabong Killing Ground The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One Red Christmas Bad Blood Fags in the Fast Lane Cargo 1% Musclecar Tarnation Boar Occupation Upgrade Nekrotronic The Nightingale- ''The Faceless Man''