Karate-kicking midgets! Paper-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive-in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock-wave! At last, the all-too-often overlooked world of drive-in filler from Manilla gets the Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD) treatment in ! This is the ultimate insiders' account of a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packing heat! ! 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, all the way from the jungles of the Pacific via the trash cans of the critics!

Starring:

Carmen Argenziano, Celeste Yarnall, Colleen Camp, Darby Hinton, Dick Miller, Eddie Garcia, Franco Guerrero, Gloria Hendry, Jack Hill, Jan Merlin, Jayne Kennedy, Joe Dante, John Ashley, John Landis, Joseph Zucchero, Laurie Rose, Leigh Christian, Lenore Kasdorf, Leo Fong, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Margaret Markov, Marissa Delgado, Marlene Clark, Patrick Wayne,

Genre:

Documentary