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Kangaroos are so cute, aren’t they? That’s why kangaroo hunters make for such bastard villains. They were bastards in Crocodile Dundee and they were bastards in Wake in Fright, which is a superb film, by the way. However, neither of those films concern kangaroo hunters quite as much as Fair Game, a slick little exploitation film from 1986.

The hunters, of which there are three, have a pretty simple dynamic. Two of them, Sparks (Garry Who) and Ringo (David Sandford), are total morons – man children with a cruel streak, while Sunny (Peter Ford), their leader, looks like an Rm Williams ambassador. He behaves like one too, presenting himself as a fair dinkum bloke. However, he rather spoils that image when he relentlessly antagonises Jessica (Cassandra Delaney), pursuing her through the outback.

That is the plot – three men antagonising a woman, and it begins quite well with a synthy score...

"Now they pay the price." Bring it on!! Dark Star Pictures has revealed a brand new US trailer for an 80s Ozploitation classic called Fair Game, which is finally getting a US release for the first time after 36 years. This originally debuted back in 1986, but never showed outside of Australia aside from a few places. It's a revenge action thriller about a young woman who fights back against vicious kangaroo poachers who come after her, kicking their ass in the end because of course she does. The film is said to be one of the films that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, along with the car chase film Vanishing Point. Time to watch all three of these as a triple bill! In Fair Game, Cassandra Delaney stars as a woman running an animal sanctuary who gets revenge on a trio of kangaroo hunters that terrorize her. The cast also includes Peter Ford,...