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In this science-fiction musical set in a future Australia, a scheme to blow up the Sydney Opera House is discovered. And the only way to prevent it is to send someone back in time to a point before the plot was even hatched...
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The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&feature=related&hl=en-GB&v=Q-Hr9i_uX9E (Sighted: 7/6/2012)
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Based on the original short film Knightmare, written by Gary L. Keady and co-directed by Gary L. Keady and Yahoo Serious.
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Heavy Metal Sci-Fi
2020
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 14 February 2020;'In 1989, director Gary Keady made what is perhaps Australia’s only sci-fi musical with Sons of Steel.
'For thirty years, the futuristic Australian heavy metal odyssey Sons Of Steel seemed relegated to the lower circles of cinema’s purgatory. But the defiant story of cocksure heavy metal frontman Black Alice, who is inadvertently sent on a tour-of-duty through time to save Sydney from nuclear holocaust, is finally gaining traction and threatening to become the cult film that it always deserved to be.'
Source: Introduction.
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Countdown : Australia's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 April 2017;
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Countdown : Australia's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films
2017
single work
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 April 2017; -
Heavy Metal Sci-Fi
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: FilmInk , 14 February 2020;'In 1989, director Gary Keady made what is perhaps Australia’s only sci-fi musical with Sons of Steel.
'For thirty years, the futuristic Australian heavy metal odyssey Sons Of Steel seemed relegated to the lower circles of cinema’s purgatory. But the defiant story of cocksure heavy metal frontman Black Alice, who is inadvertently sent on a tour-of-duty through time to save Sydney from nuclear holocaust, is finally gaining traction and threatening to become the cult film that it always deserved to be.'
Source: Introduction.
- Sydney, New South Wales,
