Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris – a driving force in Ozploitation filmmaking
- Written by Mark David Ryan, Professor, Film, Screen, Animation, Queensland University of Technology
IMDBIt has been 50 years since the cinema release of Peter Weir’s iconic, offbeat, cult classic The Cars That Ate Paris. The film seared the image of a silver Volkswagen Beetle weaponised with deadly spikes into the national imagination. It also helped shape the tropes of Ozploitation filmmaking within the history of Australian cinema.
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