I know how many Runs you Scored Last
Summer
Anchor Bay
R4 DVD
"A
cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp
cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts
revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier."
Ozploitation
is not dead, Long Live Ozploitation ! I love Aussie cult cinema, I was thrilled
when Not Quite Hollywood celebrated
the long lost classics of sex, violence, cult and horror. However, being greedy,
I want more. I also want Ozploitation films made now, not just from the
Seventies and Eighties. Recently, it seems, my desires have begun to be
satisfied. With the success of HQH
and the re-release of a flood of early Ozploitation titles from Mad Dog Morgan to Turkey Shoot new Australian cult horror cinema has been hitting the
big screen from Dying Breed to the
truly groundbreaking “I know how many
Runs you Scored Last Summer”.
This
amazing soon-to-be Aussie classic combines everything one would expect from a
cult horror film with a lot more. It thrills from the very first moment it
opens with an act of barbaric bullying to the very end with the revelation of
incestuous love and murder ! It is packed with everything from sleazy cops to
gay hairdressers, incest and bullying, outrageous killings and a mad Christian
zealot. All with a background of Australia’s favourite sport: Cricket. There is
a gratuitous nude scene, gore and violence with a cricket twist and some great
Aussie Pommy cricket competition.
Twenty
years ago a pivotal match occurred in England between two under aged cricket
teams, one Aussie and one English. After the match finished taunting turned to
bullying and then violence as a young player is stripped and whipped with the
Australian flag until he is genitally mutilated. The perpetuator moves to South
Australia and changes his identity while his accomplices go on with their
lives.
Twenty
years later and English cricket is rocked by a range of brutal and vicious
killings. Soon these murders continue in Australia and the body count mounts.
As
the killings remain unsolved, Kim Reynolds, an English policewomen, is assigned
to the sleazy Australian police team and together they must try and solve the
case before more Aussie yokels get slaughtered.
Each
killing is marked by a cricket theme; ranging from a spiked cricket ball to a nailed
groin protector and all sorts of sharpened stumps. Soon the murdered are linked
to the original bullying event which took place ever so long ago but left
lifelong injuries on the victim’s psyche and genitals. Now the five remaining
Australian team members (one cannot be located) are taken to a safe house in
the country. But everything is not as it seems. One of the policemen is actually the missing team member and the
English police woman has a very special relationship with the killer.
“I
know how many runs you scored last Summer” is packed with gore, violence,
cricket, sex and some truly surprising plot twists. This is truly innovative cinema
taking the slasher to a new level with a uniquely Aussie edge ! Awesome…
This review will appear in Volume 2 No.3
(2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.
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