Tag: Australian New Wave

Long Weekend

Long Weekend (1978)

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Long Weekend first published by EyeforFilm Search a beach long and hard enough and eventually, amidst those countless grains of sand, you are bound to unearth a lost treasure. Long Weekend marked the beginning of a continuous run of assured Australian horror films, penned by Everett De Roche, including Patrick (1978), Roadgames (1981) and Razorback (1984). Where…

Wake

Wake In Fright (aka Outback) (1971)

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Wake in Fright (aka Outback) first published by Grolsch FilmWorks If the principal theme of Ted Kotcheff’s overlooked 1971 masterpiece Wake In Fright (aka Outback) is the thin line that exists between civilisation and bestiality, then the film’s opening finds a perfect way to visualise this idea. A slow, circling aerial pan (shot very wide) reveals the…