Machete Maidens Unleashed!(2010)

movie - first aired/released 2010-10-15 - 85 min - audience 6.6

Documentary

Directed by Mark Hartley

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.