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Ribspreader

Ribspreader is the story of Bryan Burns, an ex tobacco icon who is haunted and taunted by a cigarette mascot named Sigmund. Bryan is forced into a grisly crusade to violently exstinguish smokers. He creates a bizarre Ribspreading machine and saw cutting out the lungs of his victims to make a 'smoking jacket'. Living in Murder City, Bryan faces a turf war for victims against a necrophiliac stalker, adrenal gland junkies and the mysterious Hand of Death Cult. All the while trying to gain the affections of the drug fried angry sex worker, Gypsy Lee. Smokin will Kill you in the end! One way or another…

  • Dick Dale
    Director
    Trasharama Film Festival, Yowie!!!, Pelican Boy, Busted, Flies.
  • Dick Dale
    Writer
    Yowie!!!, Pelican Boy, Flies, Creamy Love, Busted, Family Biziness
  • Dick Dale
    Producer
    Yowie!!!, Pelican Boy, Flies, Busted, Family Biziness
  • Jaan Ranniko
    Producer
    Bagsnatcher (2009), Save Point (2011) and To the Last Drop (2012).
  • Gian Carlo Petraccaro
    Producer
    Escape of the Corporate Battery Hen 2014 Offside 2009 Venice 2000 Arts Around Adelaide 1999 Connections 1999 Angst 1998 Search for the AntiChrist 1997 Misplaced 1995
  • Jade Hefferan Clark
    Producer
    Breakfast at Tiff n' Eze, Get Prepped
  • Tommy Darwin
    Key Cast
    "Bryan Burns "
    Family Demons, The Innocents, Aftertaste
  • Marni Russo
    Key Cast
    "Gypsy Lee "
    2.37, Mortal Kombat
  • Neil Foley
    Key Cast
    "Norbit/Necro"
    Bigger than Tina, Romper Stomper, Body Melt
  • Tess O'Flaherty
    Key Cast
    "Greta "
    Never too late., The Protectors, Dale
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Horror, comedy, music
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 33 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 14, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Adelaide International Film Festival
    Adelaide South Australia
    Australia
    October 22, 2022
    World premiere
    Official Selection, Audience Feature Film Award
  • Monster Fest
    Melbourne
    Australia
    November 26, 2022
    Victorian Premiere.
    Best picture Monster Fest 2022
  • Monster Fest official selection Australian tour
    Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide
    Australia
    December 10, 2022
    Sydney, Brisbane, Perth,
    Official selection
  • Video Nasties Genre Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 31, 2023
    Honorable Mention
  • Edinburgh Horror Film Festival
    Edinburgh
    United Kingdom
    April 6, 2024
    Edinburgh
    Screening..
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 22, 2024
    Horse Hospital London
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 23, 2024
    Genesis Cinema
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    March 24, 2024
    FAB Cafe Bar
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    Blackpool
    United Kingdom
    March 25, 2024
    Scream & Shake Bar
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    Copenhagen
    Denmark
    March 28, 2024
    Husets Biograf
  • The Punk Rock Movie Massacre Euro Tour
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 7, 2024
    Thameshead Texas Bar
Distribution Information
  • Monster Pictures / Monster Fest Presents / Umbrella Entertainment
    Distributor
    Country: Australia
    Rights: Internet, Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Hotel, Airline, Ship, Video / Disc, Free TV, Paid TV
Director Biography - Dick Dale

South Australian's Dale Dale has been creating short horror and bad taste comedies (award-winning and/or nominated) filthy films since 1993.
Dick is also guilty of being a scarred veteran of fronting self destructive punk rock bands since the mid 1980's. He is a repeat offender of other associated crimes (spoken word performance, scapegoat event organiser) in the underground music counterculture.
He spawned and has been curating the infamous and irreverent Trasharama-ago go Film Festival which is now celebrating it's twenty Fifth year. Trasharama is the premiere and undisputed nastiest film Festival in Australia. It annually screens short horror, bad taste comedy and other cinematic oddities from all over this planet. It now runs in cahoots with Melbourne's Monster Fest each year.
His labor of love, first feature film Ribspreader contains all the aesthetics of his creative life moshed into 90 minutes of madness, splatteriffic fun and cartoon punk rock mayhem!
It has so far been selling out screenings' to very positive reviews at the Adelaide Film Festival and Monster Fest. It recently took the Audience Favorite award at the Adelaide International Film Festival and won Best Picture at 2022 Monster Fest. Being an Independent genre film this was quite a feat.

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Director Statement

Ribspreader - a Neo-Ozploitation film for the next generation!

My ambition was to make the craziest film to come out of my home state, South Australia, and as a result, Ribspreader won the Audience Award at the Adelaide International Film Festival, 2022, and Best Picture Award at Monster Fest International Film Festival, 2022.  

Ribspreader is in good company as Adelaide is the home of iconic Australian films Bad Boy Bubby and Wolf Creek. Created on the unbelievably low budget of AUD $24,000, I barely scratched the surface with a film of this ambition.   Thanks to the incredible artists who have worked on blockbusters such as Mortal Kombat and Mad Max: Furiosa, Ribspreader features practical Effects, VFX, miniatures, a puppet and outlandish settings. A convoy of hot rods and motorbikes, a wrestler and Ozpoitation superstar, Chantal Contouri (Snapshot, Thirst). By the time I had completed Ribspreader, joining Chantal were Laurence Harvey (Human Centipede 2 & 3), Rat Scabies (The Damned), Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Films), Chad Morgan (Australian country music icon), Spencer P. Jones (Beasts of Bourbon), Wayne Mattei (Young Rock), and Svetlanas featuring Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age). Lloyd Kaufman was filmed at Troma studios in New York and Rat Scabies was shot at a graveyard in London.  

Appropriately set in back alleys and abandoned warehouses, Ribspreader maintains an authenticity that's impossible to find with an actual budget. Post-production was completed in lounge rooms and garages by friends and film fanatics.  

For twenty-five years I have screened bad taste and genre shorts on the screen at my own annual Australian film festival, Trasharama-agogo. Beyond that, I have played in punk rock and hardcore bands and I have rubbed shoulders with Australia's underbelly, working in Adelaide's dirtiest dive bars. What you see up on that screen is what I know; it's my lifestyle that inspired the story and characters in Ribspreader - though any similarities to characters and situations are purely coincidental. I'm not freakin nuts! Ribspreader could only have been created by a veteran of the Australian punk rock culture. Australia's first splatterpunk video nasty feature. Ironically, one of my crew had to have a rib removed during production. Ribspreader is real D.I.Y punk rock cinema - by any means necessary!

In addition to the feature film, Screen Australia funded, Video Nasty: the making of Ribspreader, directed by Matthew Bate from Closer Productions, currently in post-production. In the spirit of the beer and pizza Saturday night VHS rentals of my teens, Ribspreader is ninety minutes of laughs, insanity, surprises, good music and over-the-top splatter. No filler!