Tas and Ben Pappas were always looking for a thrill on their way to skating stardom [PH]
Director: Eddie Martin
Starring: Tas Papps, Ben Pappas
Cert 15; 104 mins
Australian brothers Tas and Ben Pappas were the kings of world skateboarding in the 1990s. Their spectacular rise and fall is recounted in All This Mayhem.
Tas is the one who tells the story of how the teenage boys extraordinary success turned sour through a mixture of their own youthful arrogance and a growing dependency on every kind of drug from cocaine to speed and heroin.
It is a cautionary tale that ends in tragedy and nobody is more critical of what happened than Tas himself.
A painfully frank documentary.
