Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all.
Saturating drive-ins and B-theatres around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations.
The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! Featuring interviews with filmmaking legends Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and – more often than not – no clothes.
The film will have its North American premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, following its world premiere at the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival.