Wake in Fright
1971 · TMDB 7.2
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Why it matters
A teacher stranded in an outback town descends into a nightmare of violence and kangaroo hunts. The Australian landscape becomes a character, indifferent and hostile.
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Released
- 1971-07-21
- Studio
- NLT Productions
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.2
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The Wicker Shadows of Folk Horror
Position 4 of 8
A teacher stranded in an outback town descends into a nightmare of violence and kangaroo hunts. The Australian landscape becomes a character, indifferent and hostile.
The Bush Doesn't Care If You Understand It
Position 5 of 8
A schoolteacher stranded in a mining town drinks himself into the ground, and Ted Kotcheff films the heat and the beer with documentary relish. Donald Pleasence's grinning doctor is one of cinema's great seducers.
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