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Oct 31, 2012 · Written by. Evan Jones. 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.
A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark. After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John...
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Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson.
Oct 5, 2012 · By THR Staff. 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...
Oct 18, 2012 · Movies. 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...