Last night we attended the Wierd Wednesday offering, which this week overlaps with Fantastic Fest, Dark Age, part of the special Oz-sploitation retropective. Director Mark Hartley, who brought his documentary Not Quite Hollywood (about Australian Exploitation Cinema), was in the house to help Wierd Wednesday host Lars Nilsen introduce the film. If you’re attending FF from out of town then you should make a point of hitting the Alamo Signature events as they represent the spirit of FF. (Locals on the other hand should be seeing these things on a regular basis outside of the festival.)

As usual, Lars was an entertaining fountain of knowledge. The film was fun and featured Australia’s two most famous aboriginal actors. The special effects for the main creature were incredibily poor, but just about everything else was well done.