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Houseboat Horror
''Houseboat Horror'' is a 1989 Australian slasher film that was shot on video, and then released to video in 1989. It is often described by critics and audiences as one of the worst Australian films ever made. Cast * Alan Dale as Evans * John Michael Howson as 'J' * Craig Alexander * Louise Siversen as Zelia * Gavin Wood * Des McKenna * Christine Jeston * Stephen Whittaker * Peppie D'Or * Wilkie Collins * Zlatko Kasumovic Plot A film crew composed of media types and party animals from the city embarks on a road trip to record music videos of a hard-living rock band at rural Lake Infinity. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker is shocked by the grisly discovery of her friend's dead body. Alone and forced to run through dense scrubland to escape an unseen assailant, she fails to evade the killer and suffer from multiple stab wounds. The visiting rock band with film crew, stop for fuel at a petrol station and is given an uneasy reception by locals who seem wary or suspicious of outsiders. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dale
Alan Hugh Dale (born 6 May 1947) is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of occupations, before deciding to become a professional actor at age 27. Dale subsequently moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in '' The Young Doctors'' from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in ''Neighbours'', a part he played from 1985 until 1993. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. After leaving ''Neighbours'', Dale found he had become typecast as Jim Robinson in Australia and struggled to find work. His career was revitalised after he relocated to the United States in 2000. Since then, he has had roles in many American series including prominent parts in '' The O.C.'' (as Caleb Nichol) and ''Ugly Betty'' (as Bradford Meade), as well as recurring and guest roles in '' Lost'', '' 24'', '' NCIS'', '' ER'', ''The West Wing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, southeast of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Port Phillip Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. St Kilda recorded a population of 19,490 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census.The beachfront and hill portion of the locality (between Fitzroy Street, the beach and St Kilda Road), is well known for its cafes, bars, palm trees and old flats and mansions, particularly along the main streets such as Fitzroy Street, Melbourne, Fitzroy Street, Grey Street, Melbourne, Grey Street and Acland Street. The locality also includes the lower density areas between Barkly Street and Hotham Street, and the area south of Carlisle Street down to Dickens Street, as well as a part of Albert Park. St Kilda was named by Charles La Trobe, then superintendent of the Port Phillip District, after a schooner, ''Lady of St Kilda'', which mooring (watercraft), moored at the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Patterson Saves The World
''Les Patterson Saves the World'' is a 1987 Australian comedy film starring Barry Humphries as his stage creations Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage. Plot The uncouth Sir Les Patterson teams up with Dame Edna Everage (both played by Barry Humphries) to save the world from a virulent bioterror attack ordered by Colonel Richard Godowni (Thaao Penghlis) of the Gulf State of Abu Niveah. Cast *Barry Humphries as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage *Pamela Stephenson as Veronique Crudité *Thaao Penghlis as Colonel Richard Godowni * Andrew Clarke as Neville Thonge *Henri Szeps as Dr. Charles Herpes / Desiree Herpes *Hugh Keays-Byrne as Inspector Farouk * Elizabeth McIvor as Nancy Borovansky * Garth Meade as Mustafa Toul * Arthur Sherman as General Evans * John Clarke as Mike Rooke *Josef Drewniak as Mossolov *Esben Storm as Russian Scientist * Joy Westmore as Lady Gwen Patterson *Connie Hobbs as Madge Allsop *Joan Rivers as the U.S. President Production The film was co-wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome To Woop Woop
''Welcome to Woop Woop'' is a 1997 Australian screwball comedy film directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel ''The Dead Heart'' by Douglas Kennedy. " Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to an inexact and extremely rustic and uncivilised location, usually in rural or remote Australia. Equivalent terms include "the boondocks" and "out in the sticks" in American English or "the back of beyond" in British English. The film centres on an American traveller in Australia who is abducted and held captive in a dystopian cult. Similarly to the extremely over the top way the Coen Brothers' film '' Fargo'', and its spin-off TV series mocks stereotypes about the culture of Minnesota, ''Welcome to Woop Woop''s characters are wildly exaggerated and parodied stereotypes of Anglo-Australian Bogans from Outback desert communities. Plot Teddy ( Johnathon Schaech) is a New York City con artist, womaniser, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirate Movie
''The Pirate Movie'' is a 1982 Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. Loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera ''The Pirates of Penzance'', the original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan (no relation to ''Pirates of Penzance'' composer Arthur Sullivan). The film performed far below expectations in its initial release with low critic reviews, but has maintained higher ratings among audiences. Plot Mabel Stanley is an introverted and bookish teenage girl from the United States in a seaside community in Australia as an exchange student. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a young curly-haired instructor and fellow American, who then invites her for a ride on his boat. She is duped by her exchange family sisters, Edith, Kate and Isabel, into missing the launch, so she rents a small sailboat to give chase. A sudden stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glenrowan Affair
''The Glenrowan Affair'' is a 1951 film about Ned Kelly from director Rupert Kathner. It was Kathner's final film and stars VFL star Bob Chitty as Kelly. At the time of its release it was nominated as one of the worst films ever made in Australia. Plot An unnamed artist (Rupert Kathner) is sketching in Kelly country, near Benalla. He meets a bushman known as "Old Dinny," who, the film infers, is Dan Kelly, having survived the shootout at Glenrowan. The film flashes back to the story of the Kelly gang. Cast * Bob Chitty as Ned Kelly * Albie Henderson as Joe Byrne * Ben Crowe as Dan Kelly * Bill Wright as Steve Hart * John Fernside as Father Gibney * Charles Tasman as Commissioner Nicholson * Charles Webb as Superintendent Hare * Edward Smith as Superintendent Standish * Frank Ransome as Sergeant Steele * Stan Tolhurst as the blacksmith * "Beatrice Kay" (Alma Brooks) as Kate Kelly * Wendy Roberts as Mrs Skillion * "Hunt Angels" (Rupert Kathner) as Aaron Sherritt * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phantom Gold (1936 Film)
''Phantom Gold'' is a 1937 Australian adventure film about the search for Lasseter's Reef. It was the first feature from director Rupert Kathner. Plot summary Harold Lasseter claims he knows the location of a gold reef and in 1930 manages to raise funds for an expedition to discover it. He discovers the reef but dies of thirst. Pilots W.L. Pittendrigh and S.J. Hamre go looking for Lasseter but run out of fuel and are forced to land in the desert. They are there for three weeks before being rescued. Bob Buck discovers Lasseter's body and buries him. The gold reef is never found. Cast * Stan Tolhurst as Harry Lasseter *Bryce Russell as Paul Johns *Captain W.L. Pittendrigh as himself *Bob Buck as himself *Old Warts as himself *Reg King as S.J. Hamre *Ben Nicke Production In April 1936 Sydney businessman H.V. Foy led an expedition to discover Lasseter's Reef in central Australia. He took two filmmakers with him, Rupert Kathner and Stan Tolhurst, to record the trip. Along the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plan 9 From Outer Space
''Plan 9 from Outer Space'' is a 1957 American Independent film, independent science fiction film, science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a preview screening on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title ''Grave Robbers from Outer Space''. Retitled ''Plan 9 from Outer Space'', it went into general release in July 1958 in Virginia, Texas, and several other Southern states, before being sold to television in 1961.Rudolph Grey, ''Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.'' (1992). pg. 197. ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8. The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi), and is narrated by The Amazing Criswell, Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (before Lugosi's death in August 1956, Wood had shot silent footage of Lugosi for another, unfinished film, which was inserted into ''Plan 9''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several B movie, low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult classics, notably ''Glen or Glenda'' (1953), ''Jail Bait (1954 film), Jail Bait'' (1954), ''Bride of the Monster'' (1955), ''Plan 9 from Outer Space'' (1957) and ''Night of the Ghouls'' (1959).Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992). pg. 197. ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8. In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films such as ''The Sinister Urge (film), The Sinister Urge'' (1960), ''Orgy of the Dead'' (1965) and ''Necromania'' (1971), and wrote over 80 lurid pulp magazine, pulp crime and sex novels. Notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, use of poorly-matched stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories and non sequit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Late Show (1992 TV Series)
''The Late Show'' is a popular Australian comedy sketch and satire show, which ran for two seasons on the ABC. It aired weekly on Saturday nights from 18 July 1992 to 30 October 1993. Cast ''The Late Show'' has its roots in the 1980s comedy group, ''The D-Generation''. Consisting mostly of Melbourne University students, ''The D-Generation'' managed to gain a cult following with their radio and TV appearances. After the breakup of the original ''The D-Generation'', some of the members went on to perform on the commercial TV programme ''Fast Forward''. The remaining members filmed several pilots for what was to be called ''The Late Late Show'' (no relation to the American show) at Channel Nine. These were rejected, and so the group accepted the ABC's offer of a one-hour timeslot on Saturday night. The cast members were: * Santo Cilauro * Tom Gleisner * Jane Kennedy * Judith Lucy (season two only) * Tony Martin * Mick Molloy * Rob Sitch * Jason Stephens Segments ''The La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Martin (comedian)
Anthony Francis Martin (born 10 June 1964) is a New Zealand comedian, writer and actor, who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia. Career 1980s A former stand-up comedian and commercial voice-over-man, Tony Martin moved to Brisbane, Australia, from New Zealand when he was 21 to work as a radio copywriter. Having worked in radio and amateur theatre back in NZ, Martin approached the ABCTV's '' The D-Generation'' in 1986 to work as a writer only to be told that filming on the first series had been completed. In the interim, he was invited to work as a researcher on ABC-TV's '' The Gillies Republic'' which was the follow-up to the highly successful political satire ''The Gillies Report'' (1984–85). The show was not a success but Martin learnt a considerable amount from the production's mistakes, and made his Australian TV debut as 'Man in Bad Suit' in episode 4. He was also able to observe the production of the last few episodes of the 1986 ABC- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music—are modeled after the Academy Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
