Romper Stomper – revisiting a ‘dangerous’ classic 30 years on

Three decades have passed since Romper Stomper exploded onto screens – have our attitudes towards it changed?

‘We came to wreck everything, and ruin your life

Reactions upon the film’s release were as polarised as you might expect. David Stratton infamously refused to rate it, the Anti-Nazi League in London protested its screening there, and even a young, pre-literary-debut Christos Tsiolkas eviscerated it in a 1993 article, calling it ‘an ideological mess’.

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