Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Karate-kicking midgets! Paper-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the 70’s and 80’s had it all. At last, the all-too-often overlooked world of drive-in filler from Manilla gets the Mark Hartley (of the Not Quite Hollywood fame) treatment. This is the ultimate insiders’ account of a faraway backlot, that features interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero and a large assembly of cast, crew and critics, each with a jaw-dropping story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and, more often than not, no clothes. Strap yourselves in and join us for a non-stop Filipino femme-fest. As John Landis puts it: “Never before have you seen material so ripe for masturbation!”