Wake in Fright
4
Drama
Thriller
1971
109 min
R
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
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"Guaranteed you haven’t seen this"
Ryan Kennedy
"I don’t know what it is about Australian movies from the ‘70’s, but they all seem to have a low-key creep factor that is all but unexplainable: Walkabout, The Long Weekend, The Last Wave. Even The Cars that Ate Paris somehow made my skin crawl. "
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Laura Davis
