Wake In Fright

Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: FILM SCENE | OPINION: ‘Wake in Fright’ is the perfect horror film

FILM SCENE | OPINION: ‘Wake in Fright’ is the perfect horror film

Prolific Canadian-born filmmaker Ted Kotcheff, who directed the films “First Blood,” “Weekend at Bernie’s,” “Wake in Fright,” “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” “Fun With Dick and Jane” and “North ...

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: FILM SCENE | OPINION: ‘Wake in Fright’ is the perfect horror film

DUSTY, SWEATY, and seamy, Wake in Fright was lost for several years after its original release in 1971. While its absence may have enhanced its reputation as a “lost” landmark of Australian cinema, ...

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As director Ted Kotcheff told Senses of Cinema magazine, when Aussie grind house creeper Wake in Fright premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, “There was an American seated in one of the rows ...

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Ozploitation classic Wake in Fright holds a mirror up to some of the ugliest parts of Australia. Fifty-five years after its premiere, audiences can’t get enough. In the 1970s and early ’80s, a wave of ...

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The Conversation: Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away

In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971). More than in any other film of the period, Kotcheff managed to capture ...

Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away

Twin Cities Daily Planet: Ted Kotcheff’s “Wake in Fright,” a lost Australian classic, comes to the Edina Cinema