| Welcome to Woop Woop | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical film poster | |
| Directed by | Stephan Elliott |
| Screenplay by | Stephan Elliott Michael Thomas |
| Based on | The Dead Heart (novel) by Douglas Kennedy |
| Produced by | Finola Dwyer |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mike Molloy |
| Edited by | Martin Walsh |
| Music by | Guy Gross |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Roadshow Films |
Release dates | 13 May 1997 (Cannes Film Festival) 13 November 1998 |
Running time | 106 minutes (Cannes) |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$10 million[1] |
| Box office | $527,346 |
Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian screwball comedy film directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to an inexact and extremely rustic and uncivilized location, usually in rural or remote Australia. Equivalent terms include "the boondocks" and "out in the sticks" in American English or "the back of beyond" in British English.
The film centers on an American traveller in Australia who is abducted and held captive in a dystopian cult. Similarly to the extremely over the top way the Coen Brothers' film Fargo, and its spin-off TV series mocks stereotypes about the culture of Minnesota, Welcome to Woop Woop's characters are wildly exaggerated and parodied stereotypes of Anglo-Australian Bogans from Outback desert communities.
- ^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2010) p230