Tag: Brian Trenchard-Smith

Drive

Dead End Drive-In (1986)

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Dead End Drive-In first published by Sight & Sound “Subtlety is maybe not my middle name,” admits director Brian Trenchard-Smith in his commentary on Dead End Drive-In, a Sydney-set punkish dystopia apparently unfolding in the apocalyptic interregnum between George Miller’s Mad Max (1979) and Mad Max 2 (1981), and freely ripping off both of them. Amid…

Turkey

Turkey Shoot (1982)

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Turkey Shoot first published by VODzilla.co There is a thrill in the human hunt. This was established by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s pre-Code The Most Dangerous Game (1932), whose title puns on different meanings of ‘game’ as a hunter tracks members of his own species for sport. In 1971 Peter Watkins took this premise…