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  Review by VIVE_le_FILTH ★★★★ 8

  "Yum Yum Pigs Bum!"

  
  This ozploitation classic tells the story of an Australian biker gang called the Gravediggers who are being murdered after one of the gang witnesses a shooting. So an undercover cop named Stone is send in to investigate, posing as one of the gravediggers to try and find the killer.

  I can see the similarities that have made between this and Mad Max especially having Hugh Keays-Byrne who played Toad in this and Toecutter in the original Mad Max and both movies heavily feature Motorbike gangs but I think their definitely their own thing.

  I really enjoyed this and think it is a STONE cold classic, but it does loses one star for the wig that the actor who plays Stone is wearing, it's very odd looking and it is all I can see when I close my eyes - I'm never gonna sleep again!

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  Review by Beef ★★★★½ 3

  Do you like:
  •Australia?
  •Satanic bikers?
  •Motorcycles?
  •Undercover cops?
  •Fighting?
  •Didgeridoo?
  •Skinny dipping?
  •Blokes with beards?
  •Hot sheilas?
  •Top hats?
  •Sleeping in a coffin?

  If you answered "yes," "maybe," or "no" to any of these then you should watch Stone.

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  Review by Patrick Pryor ★★★★ 4

  Australia is just British Texas let's be real.

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  Review by Lexzilla ★★½

  If I was to guess the film genre by the teeth of the characters, this would definitely sit in post apocalypse territory. Missing. Black. Grimy. And shown in close up way to often to be comfortable. And yet, it’s not. It’s a film set in a world where dentistry would definitely available. But the bikers are so outlaw man that they chose not to take advantage.

  The first half hour or so is pretty fun, a tripping biker gang member witnesses an assassination at a rally and then other members of his satanist motorbike club are bumped off, leading to a mumbling undercover police-officer joining them to try and find the killer.

  But then both the main character and the…

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  Review by MushiMinion ★★★ 3

  A hitman is accidentally observed committing a political assassination by a member of the local biker gang called the Gravediggers. Problem is... he doesn't know which member it was. He embarks upon the obvious solution: kill every single last one of them. This creates an uneasy alliance between the biker gang and the police as they attempt to hit the hitman before he gets them. Come on, how great of a premise is that?

  Following an electric opening montage of kill after kill after elaborate kill, Stone settles down into a lifestyle piece about what is bikers do and what exactly is the appeal of that way of living. It's a lurid documentation of 1970s Australia that does eventually pick…

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  Review by Alexei Toliopoulos ★★★★ 1

  The new restoration on the Umbrella Entertainment blu-ray is like watching this film for the first time. 

  This film reeks of stale sweaty denim, gasoline, a long neck of Tooheys Old and old pouches of tobacco. Rides the line between urban biker fantasy and authentic representation of underworld gangs to find this really unique tone that sacrifices neither. 

  Like many films of the 70s Ozploitation canon, Hugh Keays-Byrne elevates the pulpy material with his rich thespian presence and tone. 

  The freeze frames on those opening credits are pretty bloody unique to this film.

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  Review by Bob McQueen ★★★½

  Drinking, drugs, and riding motorcycles while trying to figure out who's killing them, the Grave Diggers aren't here to play games. Fun biker epic from Australia. I need more of these!

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½

  ultimately cartoonish in its melding of satanism, biker violence and an undercover cop yarn — but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t accomplish everything it sets out to; exploitative to a fault and existing as a sort of antithesis to the American counterculture politics of something like Easy Rider, where the most political thing about it is having the titular character not be a rebel biker but a cop

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  Review by Christian Ryan ★★★★ 2

  What a trip it’s been, eh?

  Shout out to my mate, Nick Langdon, for steering me towards this little crotch rocket. Handily my second favorite biker picture of all time, and if you ask me on the right day, I may even give it a nose over Easy Rider. Killer note to end the year on.

  Unlike last week’s goofy-as-hell Psychomania, Stone is legit cinema, with a few sequences I’d rank among the counter-culture movement’s finest (that mellow trip in the hideout, culminating in a brisk morning swim, is about as pure as cinema gets). The biker gang here feels as real as any I’ve encountered in film (Sydney’s chapter of the Hell’s Angels even get their own credit), with well-developed supporting…

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  Review by Smidvin ★★★ 6

  Some bloke called Sandy filmed a buncha grimy-looking dudes tearing up the asphalt down under. Thank God this didn't come with Odorama. I don't know how to rate it—the undercover cop story grinds to an early halt, from whereon it becomes a bikie hangout movie, which isn't my favourite genre. I still enjoyed it plenty, perhaps because the whole thing's so obviously a labour of love.
  Not only is Stone worth viewing for its uniqueness, I'd go so far as to say it's an essential of Australian cinema. And that perfect ending... I'll settle somewhere between an admiring 3 and a benevolent 3.5.

  P.S.: When Stone puts raw egg yolk in his girlfriend's orange juice - PSYCHO COP CONFIRMED

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  Review by Callisto ★★ 2

  In director Sandy Harbutt's only film, Stone begins with signs that say no fishing and no swimming because of extreme pollution. Then it cuts to a politician giving a speech in a park about how we're destroying the planet. About 50 motorcyclists ride by, of course revving those engines causing noise pollution but also the regular kind of environmental pollution that no one cares about. Not only that, but one biker is on drugs and trippin' serious balls goin' all bug-eyed and there's a sniper from far away, lining up his shot and ready to assassinate his political target. All the while the music is electronic mixed with rubber band and/or didgeridoo sounds and screeching. (Just checked. This is an…

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  Review by proofrock ★★★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.