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FilmFest Australia · 2010

FilmFest Australia 2010

Dark Side Down Under

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4 films · 4 reviews

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Coffin Rock

Review preview for Coffin Rock

A garbled, unsatisfying mess that lacks any credibility or genuine suspense.

Jeff Robson · 1.5 out of 5
A psychopath targets a woman who is seeking fertility treatment.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Rupert Glasson; Stars: Lisa Chappell, Terry Camilleri, Sam Parsonson, Robert Taylor, Geoff Morrell) , Official site

Daybreakers

Review preview for Daybreakers

Has enough bite. Just.

Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
Vampires have overthrown the human race... but now blood stocks are running low.

(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig; Writer: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig; Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill)

Road Train (Road Kill)

Review preview for Road Train

Francis positively relishes taking his viewers on deranged, demonic detours down uncharted byroads of body horror, too, with grand guignol as icky as it is utterly irrational.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Dean Francis; Writer: Clive Hopkins; Stars: Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig, Sophie Lowe, David Argue)

Van Diemen's Land

Review preview for Van Diemen's Land

This is a cold and sombre environment from which is borne a cold and sombre film.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Things get desperate after a prison breakout in Tasmania in 1822.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Jonathan auf der Heide; Stars: Oscar Redding, Jason Glover, Thomas Wright, Paul Ashcroft, Arthur Angel, Mark Winter) , Official site