<p><b>Blood! Breasts! Beasts! A brutal orgy of ghastly terror!</b></p><p>Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating drive-ins around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations!</p><p>The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (<i>Not Quite Hollywood</i>, MIFF 08) treatment in <i>Machete Maidens Unleashed!</i> Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes.</p><p>Also screens with the Filipino heightsploitation classic <i>For Y'r Height Only</i>.</p>