Romper Stomper (1992) on Netflix
Hando leads a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Footscray, Melbourne, who beat Vietnamese Australians. Gabrielle, who has epilepsy, joins the gang and becomes Hando's girlfriend.
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- IMDb6.8/1043,858 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes79%
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Plot summary
Violent tale of white supremacist skinheads who spend their time beating up anyone who isn't white or who doesn't comply with their version of acceptability. After beating up two young Vietnamese men who just bought their local - the second such attack on Vietnamese in just a few days - skinhead leader Hando and his gang finds themselves under attack by a mob fed up with being afraid to walk the streets. Following a police raid Hando, his best mate Davey and his girlfriend are all that left of the gang and are on the run. In the end, Hando and Davey will clash violently of a disagreement of principles.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Romper Stomper (1992)
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- In March 2000, British prisoner Robert Stewart bludgeoned his cellmate to death with a wooden table leg at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution; an inquiry heard he had watched Romper Stomper two days earlier and compared himself to Hando in the film.
- Geoffrey Wright's script was inspired by Dane Sweetman, a leading Melbourne neo-Nazi then serving a life sentence for murder in Pentridge Prison. Prison rules blocked an interview, so the two corresponded and Sweetman sent Wright a transcript of his murder trial.
- Hando's threat to the squatters in the warehouse, "I'll chop your legs off", is a direct reference to Dane Sweetman, who had cut off his victim's legs.
- The characters Gabrielle, Davey and the punk girls were based on associates of Dane Sweetman, but his name was left out of the film's end credits, an omission raised in the Australian media during publicity for the film.
- Bassist Chris Pettifer told Vice in 2014 that he was disappointed that genuine neo-Nazi groups had embraced the Oi! songs recorded for the film's soundtrack.
