Ep. 123 - Body Melt

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WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, and trashy treasures.

Episode 123

Body Melt

 In this episode Adam And Mark dial in on the 1993 ozploitation classic  Body Melt. A body horror film that for all intents and purposes feels like feels for all the world like the sort of squishy satires seen a few years earlier with flicks  like Society, the Stuff and Street trash but with a weirdly wonderful Aussie TV vibe complete with oversaturated colours, throbbing techno music, and deliberate jabs at the artificiality of consumer culture, the 90’s fitness craze and horror films.

In the quiet suburb of Pebbles Court, something odd seems to be afoot when a man who's just enjoyed a tryst with a sweat-covered woman in a tanning room is injected with a strange serum. He promptly starts to freak out after visiting a convenience store, yelling about hallucinations and organ failure before turning into an explosively sludgy mess. A pair of cops, Sam (Kennedy) and Johnno (Andrew Daddo), are called in to investigate as the mysterious pestilence starts to afflict other residents, who are apparently being used as guinea pigs without their consent in a sinister product testing process. All of this is tied to Viumuville, a pharmaceutical health product line and fitness centre where people are encouraged to be at their physical peak. Unfortunately the families and average joes living in the area are destined for even worse things to come... and what about that weird cannibal mutant clan living nearby?

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 112 - Dead End Drive In

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Episode 112

Dead End Drive In

In this weeks episode, Adam and Mark talk about the 1986 Australian exploitation dystopian action film directed by legend Brian Trenchard-Smith (the brains behind BMX Bandits, Turkey Shoot and The Man From Hong Kong) with a script loosely based on a short story by Peter Carey. Dead End Drive In.

Stuck delivering hot dogs in a Morris van, Jimmy ‘Crabs’ Rossini (Ned Manning) strives to emulate his tow-truck driver brother Frank (Wallabies loose head prop Ollie Hall). Driving an F100 wrapped in protective steel bars, Frank battles other towies and marauding looters for precious car parts in a society teetering toward social and economic collapse.

Crabs lusts after Frank’s beloved ’56 Chevrolet, and pilfers the immaculate two-door for a night of passion with teenage runaway Carmen (the late Natalie McCurry) at the Star Drive-In cinema.

Trouble starts when the Chev’s rear wheels are stolen, and escalates when Crabs discovers that two police officers are behind the theft. When confronted, sleazy proprietor Thompson (Peter Whitford) reveals that the cinema is actually a government-run prison camp for delinquent youth. Once trapped behind an electrified fence, they’re plied with junk food, drugs, exploitation movies and and degenerate new wave music from the likes of Hunters & Collectors, Kids In The Kitchen and Machinations .

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 84 - Razorback

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Episode 84

Razorback

In this episode Adam and Mark relive a hog-wild tale of terror from the Australian outback. It’s Nine hundred pounds of marauding tusk and muscle! - the Ozploitation classic from 1984 - Razorback

The film revolves around the attacks of a gigantic wild boar terrorising the Australian outback, killing and devouring people. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child's granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but acquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist. Her husband Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won't really help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female farmer to find the beast.

There is no denying that Razorback's basic plot premise is pretty ridiculous. In short, a giant boar (a Razorback) goes on a killing spree in a small outback town. This is about as unlikely as a giant shark terrorising swimmers ("Jaws") or a wet Japanese woman climbing out of a television set ("The Ring"). My point is that even the most ludicrous storyline can be overcome by excellent film-making and this is certainly the case with Razorback. Razorback was the film that launched Russell Mulcahy's film career after making a name for himself directing music video clips for AC/DC, Queen and Duran Duran. Razorback reflects the same sensibilities that Mulcahy brought to his best video clips: frenetic pacing, flashy camera angles and stylish visuals. These qualities are almost disorientating during the film's action and horror sequences, making them all the more suspenseful and eerie.

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