Archive of films Dead-End Drive In / Dead-End Drive In

Australia
1986, 92 min

Section: Midnight Screenings: Ozploitation!
Year: 2010

This spectacular endpoint to the golden era of the Australian B-movie presents a future where rabble rousing kids are interned in drive-in theaters. Rebel fashion and slacking off become the mainstays of a closed society where they live in cars, eat fast food, do drugs, and watch B-movies every night.


Synopsis

This baleful, self-reflexive endpoint to the golden age of Australian genre production and the era of drive-in movies was set in the near future at the time of its production. Unraveling under the influence of an economic crisis and global conflicts, society struggles to resolve the problem of ungovernable youth who terrorize the streets of the city. The only solution is internment, already furtively underway. Thus when a young couple decide to spend a pleasant evening at the drive-in, it turns into an unwilling stay in prison. Spiced up with a smattering of action scenes, the narration mainly concentrates on delineating the ingenious world of the drive-in internment camp, which it treats as a society of waste and profligacy. 1980s rebel fashion – blending glam rock, punk, graffiti, and disco – becomes the everyday routine: living in cars, eating nothing but fast food, and shunning everything healthy, while drugs and anti-conception thrive. And every night another Australian B-movie is shown on the big screen.

About the director

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Brian Trenchard-Smith (b. 1946, Great Britain) is one of the essential creative figures of the wave of Australian pulp movies from the 1970s and 80s. An old hand at action spectaculars laced with hair-raising stunts, he bid farewell to this unrepeatable creative period with the inventive self-reflexive title Dead-End Drive In (1986). Thanks to the shift in distribution, the majority of his later action films were released exclusively on video. In addition to the karate flicks Day of the Panther (1988) and Strike of the Panther (1988), he also created the war movies The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) and Sahara (1995). Since the mid 1990s he has mainly directed for television, where he has remained faithful to action thrillers and other genres of the fantastic.

Contacts

Screen NSW
Level 43, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, NSW 2000, Sydney
Australia
Tel: +61 2 822 248 44
Fax: +61 2 822 248 40
E-mail: '[email protected]'
www: www.screen.nsw.gov.au

About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section: Midnight Screenings: Ozploitation!
   
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Screenplay: Peter Smalley, Peter Carey
Dir. of Photography: Paul Murphy
Music: Frank Strangio
Editor: Alan Lake, Lee Smith
Producer: Andrew Williams
Production: New South Wales Film Corp., Springvale Productions
Cast: Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford, Wilbur Wilde, Dave Gibson
Contact: Screen NSW

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