Review of Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) by Rob V — 01 Mar 2011

From the director of Not Quite Hollywood, which was a good fun documentary about Australian exploitation cinema, this is another doc, this time focussing on Filipino-shot exploitation movies (a great deal of which seem to have been helmed by Roger Corman). It's a blast, with some great talking heads from the likes of Sid Haig, Joe Dante and the always dapper John Landis.

There are some hilarious anecdotes and plenty of clips from the offending movies, and if anything this rollicks along at a better pace than 'Not Quite Hollywood', although it does seem to stop quite suddenly without reaching a natural stopping point. A very entertaining watch for genre fans.