Machete Maidens Unleashed!

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A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

1.8K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
All the footage of Quentin Tarantino interviewing Cirio H. Santiago had to be cut from the final finished version of the film.

Connections
Featured in Kain's Quest: The Arena (2017)

Soundtracks
Let's Go Where the Action Is
Written and Performed by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

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7/10

We can have Filipinos for about five bucks a day.

I watched a couple of women-in-prison movies the other day. Both were made in the Philippines. This documentary goes behind the scenes to show why and how Roger Corman type films were made there. Cheap actors and lax safety rules made for an ideal situation for making low budget films.

Blood, breasts, and beasts were the staples of films like Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Beast of Blood, The Big Doll House, Women in Cages, Black mama, White Mama,The Big Bird Cage, and the classic Vampire Hookers.

We see stars like Pam Grier learning the craft in these cheap films. Part of a new wave of women as action heroes, which was new to moviegoers.

The documentary was invaluable in understanding the background of filmmaking.