Cars, Karate And Kangaroos!

What happened before the Aussie film industry found its feet? A slew of charmingly amateurish B-movies with blood, crocs, vomit and out-of-control foreign stars, finds Damon WiseWhy!? What!? How!? Where!? For 100 astounding minutes the breakneck documentary Not Quite Hollywood mounts a staggering assault on your common sense. Tracing the rise and fall of Australian exploitation cinema from the early-70s to the late-80s, Mark Hartley's breathless expose accelerates from one trashy revelation to the next in a film that features explosions, gore, breasts, blood, kung fu, BMX bikes, murderers in ice-cream vans, lesbian sex, devil worship, disco dancing, killer crocodiles, werewolves, car crashes, projectile vomiting - and US porn star John Holmes.