Wake in Fright
1971
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Oct 31, 2012 · Kenneth Cook. "Wake in Fright" is a film made in Australia in 1971 and almost lost forever. It's not dated. It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. It comes billed as a "horror film" and contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic.
97% Tomatometer 59 Reviews 83% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday...
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- Ted Kotcheff
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- Gary Bond
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2022. Wake in Fright is searing condemnation on masculinity, urban vs rural divides and alcohol abuse that traps its audience in toxic cycles as...
Oct 5, 2012 · October 5, 2012 10:11am. Wake in Fright Ted Kotcheff - H 2012. A Deliverance -flavored Australian horror tale whose out-of-his-depth protagonist doesn’t have the benefit of buddies traveling...
Oct 4, 2012 · Culture Desk. “Wake In Fright”: Prepare to Be Disturbed, Mate. By James Guida. October 4, 2012. In a two-building town in the Australian desert, a young schoolteacher in suit and tie lights a...
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Oct 18, 2012 · Review: ‘Wake in Fright’ is classic psychological horror. By Robert Abele. Oct. 18, 2012 12 AM PT. Raw, unsettling and mesmerizing, the once-thought-lost Australian classic from 1971...
The film has an approval rating of 97% and a rating average score of 8.6/10 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 59 reviews. The site's consensus states: "A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark." [14]
