Oi, ockers!

Having a few slices of deep-fried Southern drive-in fare on order has caused me to reschedule the Hicksploitation extravaganza for the end of the month. Instead, I am wallowing in the glorious vulgarity of Ozploitation.

First up is this ESSENTIAL documentary on the Australian drive-in film movement. No matter your film tastes, you need to see this.

This flawlessly crafted and adoringly assembled documentary on Australian exploitation (Ozploitation) films touches on everything from bawdy, boobs-n-beer farces to gruesome horror to stuntman centric, high-octane action films. Genre movie superfan Quentin Tarantino is all over Not Quite, exuding his typical infectiously arrogant charm. He clearly loves (and was inspired by) these films.

Words don't do it justice. Rent it or stream it on Netflix. You will not be disappointed.

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I just ordered:

from SHOCKING VIDEOS and at the expense of sounding like a shill (since this is my first order, and haven't even received the film yet), I implore you to browse the selection. If your tastes skew toward grit, grime, sleaze and slime .. you will be pleased. Your PayPal account may not be though.

The cagey sub-sub-genre affectionately known as white/hicksploitation will encompass the bulk of my first week of viewing for The Challenge. Everyone from HG Lewis to Burt Reynolds is fair game.

2nd Annual Drive-In Exploitation B Movie Challenge

As far as inaugural posts for fresh-from-the-oven blogs go, I figure announcing participation in an ultra marathon, deck-stacked-against film spree is a pretty good one.

An ever-expanding group of intrepid cult film lovers over at DVDTALK.COM are gearing up to try and watch 100 cult and B-movies during the month of April. And seeing as how I have what can only be described as Mt. St. Trash Films piling up on my dining room floor, I figured, to quote Jack Burton, "What the hell?".

So my goal is to watch 100 cult/trash/B/horror/drive-in films in April, and recap mini reviews and impressions. So do follow along as I drift off into a celluloid reverie of grindhousian proportions!

You can also follow along with film lists here and challenge discussion here