Fight Like a Girl (2015)

Budding female pro wrestling champion Charlie is faced with a wrestle-pocalypse of homicidal monsters spawned by a wrestling video game.

Director:

Daniel Armstrong

Writers:

Daniel Armstrong, Daniel Armstrong

Stars:

Elke Berry, Mick Preston, Jenna Dwyer

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Elke Berry	...	Roz (as Elke Osadnik)
Mick Preston	...	Cord
Jenna Dwyer	...	Charlie
Josh Futcher	...	Misha
Sarah Howett	...	The Butcher
Adrian Tiatto	...	Buffalo daddy
Julian Mulchay	...	Boris
Paul Cousins	...	Vince
Blake Johnson	...	Juggernaught
Deborah McKelvey	...	Elrika
Trevor Wight	...	Brain
Emma-Louise Wilson	...	Tenille
Sachie Garret	...	Sayuri
Ellis Ebell	...	Master Fang
Damien Drake	...	Damien Drake

Storyline

After witnessing her Daddy's tragic death in the ring Charlie sets out to become a wrestler in his memory. The only things stopping her are a disapproving boyfriend, an overwhelming day job, and her corporate psycho boss - whose dodgy business practices threaten to unleash hordes of brain eating wrestling-monsters on the earth! Faced with a wrestle-pocalypse Charlie has no choice but to open up a can of whoop-ass and take these monstrous Jabronis for a stroll down smack down boulevard! From the director of the international cult film MURDERDROME comes FROM PARTS UNKNOWN: FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. The story of a young girl wrestling with life's issues - and some brain eating wrestle-monsters.

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Plot Keywords:

zombie | professional wrestling | 

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Taglines:

Fight like a girl, it's the end of the world.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Sport

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

January 2015 (Australia)

Also Known As:

Fight Like a Girl

Filming Locations:

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Box Office

Budget:

AUD 6,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Strongman Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was shot between Oct 6th 2007 and March 2nd 2008. The first edit was completed by the end of 2009 but, due to inexperience and lack of technical know-how, it was completed without location audio. The actors in FPU trained with PCW for 9 weeks to learn to impersonate wrestlers and did all their own wrestling and stunts. The actual professional wrestlers in the film were not required to actually wrestle in the film. Most of FPU was shot in an abandoned warehouse with no power, requiring a large generator to run lights, the noise of which can be heard in every shot at this location. By 2011 location audio had been re-synced but due to a falling out with those responsible was never delivered to the producers. During production the director's car was written off by a drunk off-duty police officer, the insurance money was just enough to allow shooting to continue. All the blood in FPU is made from Coles home brand chocolate sauce. In a pivotal scene depicting the death of a main character the actor playing the part of the killer failed to turn up and didn't return calls. An attempt was made to shoot the scene from a first person point-of-view, but in post production a random beam falling from out of shot was added to create the death scene instead. In the years 2011 - 2013 the producers shelved FPU and made, and then released world wide, the roller derby slasher film MurderDrome. In 2014 FPU was completely re-edited from source footage and finally premiered to a sold out crowd on Jan 10th this year.

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