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ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS

In what would well be my favourite documentary of the year (closely followed by Star Wars Begins, A Fan Documentary). Electric Boogaloo:The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films took me back to my younger years. I loved Cannon films, as cheesy and crazy as some of them were, they were and still are so much fun and gave the film world a whole heap of Charles Bronson, Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris projects that we might not have seen were it not for the crazy duo of Golan/Globus.

Its been a long time coming but finally a documentary has been put together which delves into the very honest opinions of the Israeli producers who took on Hollywood. its also not a documentary that just spends its running time saying how great the two guys were, this is an honest documentary with far more humour than I thought would be in the story involving more money than I have ever seen in my lifetime. Its a really entertaining story that Im sure if they were both still working together (sadly Menahem Globus was killed in a bomb explosion shortly after this documentary was completed in August 2014)

“ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS is as breathlessly entertaining as the very films it covers. The best (and worst) of Golan and Globus are high impact fever dreams of sex, violence, madness and mayhem; this great documentary captures that crazy lightning in a bottle.”

EDGAR WRIGHT

“Required viewing for connoisseurs of trash cinema, even if none of the films included are anywhere near as good as it is.” ****

MATT GLASBY / TOTAL FILM

From acclaimed cult film documentarian Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED), ELECTRIC BOOGALOO centres on the story of two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the “American dream” founded an indie studio (Cannon) that would produce over 120 exploitation films from 1979-1989, launching the careers of numerous action stars including Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren.

Wildly eclectic, Golan and Globus also produced work by such luminaries as Franco Zeffirelli, John Cassavetes and Barbet Schroeder. With relentless energy and sheer nerve, the cousins turned a renegade outfit into a major Hollywood powerhouse.

A FILM BY MARK HARTLEY

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS