Ozploitation postponed at iHouse — UPDATED

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Ozploitation postponed at iHouse — UPDATED

POSTED: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:00 PM

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If you were planning on checking out Exhumed Films' Ozploitation double feature this Saturday at iHouse, don't bother. The Exhumed boys have postponed the show because of the expected snowstorm. UPDATE: The rescheduled screening is Friday, March 5.

For all of you who are all "WTF? Ozploitation? Wha?" lemme enlighten you: Exhumed was set to screen to films by Aussie director Richard Franklin, featuring Road Games (1981, Australia, 101 min.), about a trucker (Stacy Keach) and a hot hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) versus a psychopath on the loose (pictured above) and Patrick (1978, Australia, 112 min.), about a comatose patient who can kill through telekinesis. We'll update you on the re-scheduled date when we hear back from them but in the mean time enjoy some trailers:

Road Games

Patrick

If that's not enough to fill your Down Under fix, go ahead and rent Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, which Shaun Brady reviewed:

A freewheeling, fast-paced doc that's almost as fun to watch (and often more so) as the wild and woolly films it spotlights, Mark Hartley's Not Quite Hollywood outlines the history of Ozploitation, the Down Under(ground) version of drive-thru cinema. Hartley packs the film with uncensored reminiscences from virtually all of the surviving key players of the era, peppered with typically effusive praise from Quentin Tarantino. Hartley divides the film by subgenre — sex films, horror, kung fu and the Outback gang films that culminated in Mad Max. Along the way, old grudges are aired, fingers are pointed, and everyone seems more than a little shocked at the fact that so few people died in the free-for-all atmosphere of those sets. Any self-respecting aficionado of rubber monsters and ridiculous explosions will find themselves dashing out of the theater and directly to Netflix.

For more repertory film listings, check citypaper.net/repfilm every week.

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