FilmFest Australia · 2011
4 films · 4 reviews
A joyous genre mash-up of John Hughes-style adolescent anxieties and drill-bit depravities (call it 'torture prom'), all married in McLeavy's wonderfully unhinged turn as a pretty-in-pink princess of perversion.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Sean Byrne; Writer: Sean Byrne; Stars: Xavier Samuel, Jessica McNamee, Richard Wilson, Victoria Thaine, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton, Fred Whitlock, Eden Porter) , Official site
The director manages to craft some distinctive and atmospheric set pieces.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Andrew Traucki; Writer: Andrew Traucki, James M. Vernon; Stars: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark Simpson) , Official site
Really quite an old fashioned film about what happens when an ugly incident transforms the dynamic within a high school that seems entirely free of adult influence.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Ben C Lucas; Writer: Ben C Lucas; Stars: Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell)
This is a shocking, visceral work. There are moments of humour, here and there, but it is the gallows laughing.
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 1971; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Evan Jones, based on the book by Kenneth Cook.; Stars: Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty) , Official site
To be screened with "A short, sharp selection of artist film curated by Katrina Schwarz".
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