In 1970 this film opened in Sydney's 2600 seat luxury State picture palace. It was in the days when a film opened in one theatre and stayed there for a few weeks before rippling into the suburbs.
However, such was the demand caused by the TV ads that TWENTY THOUSAND feverish wannabe customers clogged Market Street Sydney on the opening Saturday night....it was a riot...an unprecedented scene, completely unplanned and un policed...it re wrote the rule book on TV effectiveness in Australia and caused the distributor to raise the film hire to all sub runs.
YORGA was a stupendous box office winner for about 4 months in Sydney alone and the sequels including The Vampire Lovers started the mass releasing of films across Australia in dozens of screens at once. One session I went to was so crowded and the sessions so frequent that there wasn't time to clean up. I literally sat ankle deep in trash whilst frenzied customers literally hung from the State chandeliers screaming. Hilarious good fun. Craziness.
However, such was the demand caused by the TV ads that TWENTY THOUSAND feverish wannabe customers clogged Market Street Sydney on the opening Saturday night....it was a riot...an unprecedented scene, completely unplanned and un policed...it re wrote the rule book on TV effectiveness in Australia and caused the distributor to raise the film hire to all sub runs.
YORGA was a stupendous box office winner for about 4 months in Sydney alone and the sequels including The Vampire Lovers started the mass releasing of films across Australia in dozens of screens at once. One session I went to was so crowded and the sessions so frequent that there wasn't time to clean up. I literally sat ankle deep in trash whilst frenzied customers literally hung from the State chandeliers screaming. Hilarious good fun. Craziness.