Presented by a host of directors, stars and commentators (including the crown prince of cult, Tarantino himself) director Hartley has collected clips and comment on the genre Australia forgot in this fascinating, ballsy and wry doco.

Yeah, when I set out I had the idea but didn't quite have the ending. I never really get to say what I want to my father, but a drama teacher told me the beauty about film is you can give someone something that you can’t in real life. It’s a family drama — it’s a love story about the father and son.

Lucas distilled millennia of heroic mythology and classic good versus evil themes into an easily digestible romp. He mixed it up with plots from the Flash Gordon serials he loved as a kid and referenced the visuals of frenetic dogfight scenes from World War II action films.