Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Mark Hartley's documentary charts the wave of Australian genre filmmaking that followed the introduction of the R certificate in 1971 — the sex comedies, horror pictures and car-crash action films later nicknamed 'Ozploitation'. Clips and interviews cover titles such as 'Alvin Purple', 'Patrick', 'Long Weekend', 'Turkey Shoot', 'The Man from Hong Kong' and 'Mad Max', with directors, actors and stunt performers recalling improvised effects, on-set injuries and censorship battles, while Quentin Tarantino appears throughout as the films' loudest champion. Running underneath the anecdotes is an argument with the Australian critical establishment, which backed respectable state-funded period dramas while treating the drive-in hits as a national embarrassment.
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 documentary and history film. It runs 1h 45m and carries an R certificate. It was made in Australia.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 36.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
