Poster for the movie Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010 • 85 minutes
Documentary

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.

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Roger Corman

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Colleen Camp

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John Landis

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Sid Haig

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R. Lee Ermey

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Joe Dante

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Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Marlene Clark

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Jack Hill

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Eddie Romero

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Eddie Garcia

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Pam Grier

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Allan Arkush

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Weng Weng

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Vic Diaz

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Leo Fong

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Leon Isaac Kennedy

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Paul Koslo

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Christopher Mitchum

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Bobby A. Suarez

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Cirio H. Santiago

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Jonathan Kaplan

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Gloria Hendry

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Dick Miller

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Judith Brown

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Danny Peary

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Margaret Markov

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Celeste Yarnall

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Jayne Kennedy

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