Fantastic Fest 2008

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In a post-apocalyptic world gone wild, a handful of prison camp inmates must run for their life while being hunted for sport!

FULL DESCRIPTION: I don’t want to alarm anyone, but the year 2000 is going to be a real rough ride. After we face a worldwide nuclear holocaust, we’ll be herded into militaristic re-education camps and picked off like animals by sadistic upper-crust pleasure hunters. Fortunately we’ll have fellow prisoners like Paul (Steve Railsback of THE STUNT MAN and LIFEFORCE), a ready-to-rumble “deviant” who refuses to stand quietly by as mankind’s future hits the chopping block. This hyper-adrenalized World War III-tinted variation on “The Most Dangerous Game” is a tense, gritty mass of explosive fury, co-starring ROMEO & JULIET’s Olivia Hussey and slick-headed Aussie heavy Roger Ward (MAD MAX) as the camp’s vicious Chief Guard. This is Aussie action cinema at a bold new level, as exploitation wizard Trenchard-Smith (in attendance, no less!) stirs up an unbelievable cocktail of celluloid dynamite that combines mutants, machismo, misogyny, misanthropy and a dazzling, bullet-ridden array of violence violence VIOLENCE!!! (Zack Carlson)

With director Brian Trenchard-Smith live in person.

Rare 35mm print courtesy Antony I. Ginnane.

This film is sponsored by Foster’s.