The Ozploit Cast – Episode 22 ‘1987 and 1988 Films’: Initiation, Les Patterson Saves the World, Breaking Loose: Summer City II, Day of the Panther and Strike of the Panther

The Ozploit Cast – Episode 22 ‘1987-1988 Films’
Initiation, Les Patterson Saves the World, Breaking Loose: Summer City II, Day of the Panther and Strike of the Panther

Welcome to our Podcast series from The Super Network with The Ozploit Cast! This podcast series is all about Ozploitation Cinema! If you don’t know what that is, it is exploitation films from the land Down Under! That’s right, Australia from the 70’s to now have been making exploitation films from all genres with horror, comedy, sc-fi, thriller, erotic and action to name a few. The podcast started with Wake In Fright and each episode covers five films in release order.

Bede Jermyn and Super Marcey are your hosts for The Ozploit Cast and are here for Episode 22 and are here to discuss the next five films in this ozploitation journey. This episode the films being discussed are from 1987 and 1988, with quite the mixture of genres, with Initiation (1987), Les Patterson Saves the World (1987), Breaking Loose: Summer City II (1988), Day of the Panther (1988) and Strike of the Panther (1988)! How do these five films stack up with the over one hundred that have been covered for this show already? Listen in and find out! Enjoy!

Initiation Synopsis: After the death of his mother, Danny visits his father Matt Malloy, whose farm has been going bad lately, so his father starts smuggling Marijuana, when Danny joins him on one of his flights. Danny soon finds himself alone.
Les Patterson Saves the World Synopsis: A boozy Australian diplomat’s disastrous UN appearance lands him in the Middle East, where he stumbles into a KGB bioweapon. With help from Dame Edna, this perpetually drunk mess might accidentally become the world’s unlikeliest hero.
Breaking Loose: Summer City II Synopsis: A disillusioned and directionless Australian teen who finds his life spiraling more quickly than he can handle makes an impulsive escape to the Australian coast to stay with a friend of his mother’s. But it doesn’t take long for him to realize that the questionable adults around him appear to be in need of a similar awakening.
Day of the Panther Synopsis: A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Strike of the Panther Synopsis: Martial artist and cop Jason Blade must venture into a volatile chemical plant to bring down his archenemy Jim Baxter and save his girlfriend.

DISCLAIMER: Some of the films discussed in the podcast contain some much dated ideas, use terms that are offensive and mostly certainly not used today. Your hosts have done their best to be as respectful as possible when discussing these issues and have not intended any discussion to be offensive or harmful.

Highlights include:

* This episode brings the variety!

* Initiation goes from one type of film, to another and another.

* The hosts didn’t dislike Les Patterson Saves the World but it certainly has issues.

* Marcey and Bede weren’t big on Summer City, where do they stand on Breaking Loose – the sequel?

* Martial arts scenes steal the show in Day of the Panther.

* Can the same be said for Strike of the Panther?

* Did somebody say hockey mask wearing ninja?.

* Ratings for each film

* Plus much, much more!

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