#ozploitation

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Bring Her Back (2025)

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Razorback (1984)

Dir. Russell Mulcahy

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Mad Max (1979)

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Sons of Steel Japanese VHS (Gary L. Keady, 1988)

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Howling III: The Marsupials (1987) was filmed entirely in director Philippe Mora's native Australia. The already low budget film had another problem: the fact Australia didn't really have a seasoned special effects artist scene, unlike the USA, UK or Japan. Australia wouldn't get a heavy FX scene until Farscape was made in the country a decade later!

To realize Howling III's various creatures, Mora turned to Bob McCarron, one of the few notable makeup artists in Australia at the time. McCarron had already provided the elaborate boar puppet and some facial prosthetics for Russell Mulcahy's Razorback (1984).

One highlight of McCarron's work is the 'were-thylacine' (it's clunky I know) that Max Fairchild transforms into. Facial prosthetics were made for Fairchild's early stages of transformation, as well as a rudimentary 'change o head' puppet. The final suit seems to consist of a bodysuit with fur applied, as well as sculpted taloned gloves, and a thylacine mask with mechanisms allowing the jaws to open and close. I love that they remembered to keep the stripes and small ears that the real thylacines had.

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Patrick Richard Franklin. 1978

Nursing Home Simonds Hall, 120W-126W Toorak Rd, South Yarra VIC 3141, Australia See in map

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Wake in Fright (1971)

Film Description: After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

Watch Wake in Fright for free on:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/wake-in-fright/video/ZX6108A001S00

[from-beyond]

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, 1988

“And no hangover tomorrow.”