Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: 1970s

Director Simon Wincer also made Quigley Down Under, D.A.R.Y.L., Harlequin, The Phantom and, amazingly, Free Willy. This is where he gets started, making producer Antony I. Ginnane’s follow-up to Patrick, working with writers Chris and Everett De Roche.

Angela (Sigrid Thornton) is a hairdresser who dreams of getting away from her controlling mother. Modeling seems to be the ticket, thanks to her friend Madeline (Chantal Contouri), which means that she gets into a whole different world, having to pose topless for an ad. Her mother discovers this new career and throws her out, so she goes to live with Linsey (Hugh Keays-Byrne), another model, and has to fight off the advances of her ex-boyfriend, ice cream salesman Daryl (Vincent Gil) and Elmer (Robert Bruner), the rich owner of the modeling agency who tries to assault her twice. One of them is the person who sent her a severed pig head and they’re both kind of scaring her.

Well, by the end — spoiler warning — Elmer has been lit on fire and Madeline has hit Daryl with a Mr Whippy Van (an ice cream company from Australia). The American but gets rid of the fact that Elmer and Madeline are married, which adds another layer, as Daryl is confused by the mention of the pig’s head in her bed and totally shocked when he gets flattened. Madeline tells her that she has to go to Los Angeles.

Released in the U.S. as The Day After Halloween and on video as The Night After Halloween. It has nothing to do with Haddonfield, as you’d imagine, and is closer to a fashion giallo than a slasher. It also has a Brian May disco score and even a scene where a trip to the discoteque has a drag artist who loves Elvis. Some say that nothing happens in this movie, but you know, some people digmovies like that.