Outback - Deadly Hunt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outback - Deadly Hunt |
| Original title | Wrath |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Neil Dixon |
| script | Jonathan Neil Dixon |
| production | Jonathan Neil Dixon |
| music | Guntis Sics |
| camera | Paul Warren |
| cut | John Binstead |
| occupation | |
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Outback is an Australian horror film by Jonathan Neil Dixon, which was released in US cinemas in 2011 and was shown the following year at the 26th Fantasy Filmfest in Berlin.
action
Four young people go on an excursion in the Australian outback . At a gas station they meet a distraught young woman with bloody hands. When a lunatic shoots the arriving police officer and the gas station attendant from a distance, they flee to the nearest farm together with the taciturn stranger in the hope of being able to get help from there. But a new danger lurks here. Brothers Max and Will Thompson, residents of the dilapidated property, claimed to have committed a gruesome crime - a body dangling from one of the sheds. To avoid punishment, they rifle anyone who witnessed the crime. So three of the four tourists have to lose their lives.
The mysterious stranger turns out to be the sister of the brothers and reports of sexual assaults within the family. Her name is Leah and her father is a tyrant. She asks the only survivor of the four tourists for help. Caroline accompanies Leah on her escape from the house after her brothers Will and Max are dead. The unstable Max shot himself, Will was killed by his own father. Leah's sister died weeks or months ago. Her half-decayed body is still hanging on the shed. Leah's father has a heart attack while chasing his daughter on the country road in his 4x4. Leah shoots him on the side of the road and continues with Caroline to see relatives who live not far from the Thompson Farm. There Leah blames her grandmother Grace for the family misery and shoots her and her grandfather Henry in an argument. Suddenly a shy, blond, curly haired girl appears from the next room, whom Leah calls his mummy. Leah says goodbye to her lovingly, and shoots herself as soon as Caroline has left the house with the child in her arms. Caroline brings the blissfully sleeping child to safety by car.
background
The film was shot in the Australian state of New South Wales .
The song Midnight Special , sung by US country singer Bill Cox, is playing in the motel's breakfast room .
Michael Fleig from critic.de sees the little blond girl in the red raincoat as an " overly clear allusion " to the 1973 film When the Gondolas Bear Mourning .
criticism
“Instead of giving answers, Outback only raises more questions, so that the strange behavior of all those involved turns into an involuntarily comical execution farce. [...] although the extensive landscape shots of Australia do not understand Dixon's debut. "
“There are a few storylines that are predictable, but they're still pretty well staged. [...] Actually, the actors are not very convincing, but this is also due to the rather one-dimensional character drawings. "
“In addition to the classic backwood hunting motif, […] Dixon relies on the Western flair. [...] The sound level supports the Wild West mood by repeatedly echoing elements of a classic Italo-Western score. Sometimes so emphatically classic that it is again suspicious of irony. But Wrath doesn't really want to go along the popular path of self-deprecating horror, he means it very seriously. In order to convey an appropriate atmosphere, director Dixon was probably not only inspired by his Australian predecessors, but also by some classics from film history. "
Web links
- Outback - Deadly Hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Outback - Deadly Hunt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 183 V).
- ↑ Program, page 75
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754912/locations
- ↑ see credits
- ↑ a b Michael Fleig: film review on critic.de. September 16, 2012, accessed February 4, 2015 .
- ↑ https://filmchecker.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/filmreview-wrath-2011/
- ↑ Review on www.splashmovies.de. Retrieved February 4, 2015 .