30.10.16

wake in fright (1971)

aka Outback.
"What's the matter with him? He'd rather talk to a woman than drink beer."
School teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) works in the outback of Australia, and dreams of a life in Britain, amid the culture that he so craves. For Christmas he packs his bags to spend the holidays in Sydney, and plan his escape. Unfortunately he has a stop off in The Yabba for a night, and despite his better judgement gets involved in gambling. Inevitably after initially winning, he looses everything and is stranded penniless, but help is at hand, though it only serves to drag him into the crazy, drunk, and violent lives of the men that live there. Can he escape with his sanity intact?
Billed as a horror film, it shows human kind in a brutally realistic and unsettling way. Australian, Horror, Ted Kotcheff,

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