NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 9: Long Weekend (1978) & Razorback (1984)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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This week we stay down under as Lindsay Hallam joins Mike to discuss two Ozsploitation bangers...Colin Egglestone's Long Weekend and Russell Mulcahy's Razoarback...
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| 0:00.0 | The After the success of 70s Australian New Wave films like Wake and Fright and |
| 0:29.2 | picnic at hanging rock, the Australian film industry saw a boom of commercially successful genre movies, the sort |
| 0:36.0 | of low budget films that would bring in big crowds on a Friday night, films with plenty of graphic |
| 0:41.9 | violence, but also an emphasis on the Australian landscape |
| 0:45.9 | as a backdrop. |
| 0:47.2 | This wave of films has now become known as Ospoitation and many Ospoitation films from this era were about the perils and dangers of the natural world. |
| 0:57.0 | In 1978, Colin Eggeston made a long weekend, an Ospoitation film about a toxic married couple camping on a beautiful |
| 1:05.8 | secluded beach disrespecting the natural world and the natural world taking its revenge. |
| 1:12.3 | Every living creature, every natural world taking its revenge. |
| 1:12.6 | Every living creature, every blade of grass will turn against you. |
| 1:19.6 | A few years later in 1984 Russell Mulcay made a slick, stylish, and utterly deranged film about a |
| 1:27.7 | killer boar terrorizing residents of the Australian Outback. |
| 1:33.0 | Out here is where it will find you. |
| 1:39.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror films and we discuss |
| 1:47.3 | two Ospoitation classics, long weekend and razor back. |
| 2:00.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 2:02.0 | My name is Mike Munzer and as ever I am your host. |
| 2:05.1 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history |
| 2:07.9 | and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. |
| 2:12.3 | We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror and this is part 9. This week, I mean it couldn't be a more perfect double bill of films for this particular theme. |
| 2:26.8 | This week it is all about nature biting us on the ass, particularly Australian nature. |
| 2:33.0 | We are talking a long weekend from 1978 |
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