Welcome to Woop Woop

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	Johnathon Schaech Rod Taylor Susie Porter Dee Smart
Cinematography	Mike Molloy
Edited by	Martin Walsh
Music by	Guy Gross
Production company	The Australian Film Finance Corporation
Distributed by	Roadshow Films
Release dates	13 May 1997 (1997-05-13) (Cannes Film Festival) 13 November 1998 (1998-11-13) (Australia)
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.