I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer

2008

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer is a 2009 horror comedy where a killer dressed as a cricketer returns to Australia to pick off the members of his school cricket team who bullied him mercilessly. In an idea so dumb it can only happen in a horror movie, the remaining members of the team are brought together to be protected in a remote country house by the investigating detectives including a woman from Scotland Yard. Well, wouldn't you know it, the killer finds them and uses weapons made from cricket equipment to slaughter the remaining members of the team one-by-one. For a movie that has an perfectly fine silly concept and a decent parody name, the movie is surprisingly devoid of comedy unless you consider oft-used sexist and gay jokes as the height of comedy. I think the makers thought that their idea was silly enough that people would just find the movie funny because of that but you need jokes or even funny deaths, none of which happens. And the horror side of things is by-the-number boredom, everyone is told to stay in the house but then they just leave one-by-one and no-one seems to notice or care when they go missing until they bother to do a head count. Should've been way funnier than this disappointment. It does have a lengthy body double scene that feels like it should've been played for laughs and then nothing but lengthy washing of body. Where's the jokes?

Arianna Starr film clip as the body double for Stacey Edmonds (sample below)

Get Rich Quick

2004

Blazey Best film clip (sample below)

Get Rich Quick is a 2004 comedy thriller where a struggling artist, a deadbeat gambler art dealer, an avant garde artist who's really a drug dealer, a junkie, another junkie who's just been released from prison, a sports star turned gangster and a gang of thieves all enter each other's path all related to wanting to get money quickly. It all culminates in a bank in Byron Bay. And it makes very little sense, if any. When Australian movies imitated Tarantino, it usually ended badly and by the time of this movie's release it was at least 5 years too late for that craze. I still have no idea why the main character, the struggling artist is in jail, you don't know this until the final minutes and you never know exactly why, you could make a reasonable guess but it still would make no sense. Then there's just baffling moments like the man just out of jail who decides to get rich quick by faking a funny video from Australia's Funniest Home Video show and ends up killing the bloke who's been made a fool and then just buries him at the beach (!). There's a surprisingly decent Australian cast for this low budget movie with a whole bunch of actors who are fairly well known like Jason Clarke, Anthony Hayes, Ben Oxenbould, Marshall Napier, Malcolm Kennard amongst others which suggests that this movie should've got some sort of release in Australia but it never has and the DVD I capped this from is a terrible US DVD.

Here's an interesting bit of trivia from Get Rich Quick which explains why the scene ends with a cartoon man shooting up the place, another baffling feature of the movie.

The Coolangatta Gold

1984

The Coolangatta Gold is a 1984 sports drama where one brother is a freewheeling bloke who is looking to branch out while his brother is his father's favourite who is training him for the surf lifesaving championship known as The Coolangatta Gold. Extreme tension develops between freewheeler and his resentful father until he decides to enter the race himself and prove he's as good as his brother. Also, he falls in love with a ballet dancer (Josephine Smulders, an actual ballet dancer in her only movie). Truly bizarre movie which has all the usual sport clichés and then amplifies them to extreme levels mainly thanks to a ridiculously over-the-top performance of Nick Tate as the boy's father who hates's one of his son's and basically ignores his wife. Probably an accurate portraying of an overbearing sports father but it's so extreme it becomes laughable. Otherwise it's a pretty stock-standard sports movie, predictable even to the final seconds. Also check out the dance sex scene below which fits perfectly to the ridiculousness of the movie.

Josephine Smulders film clip (sample below)