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Wake in Fright – Film ink

Posted by Notcot on Jan 11, 2013 in Cult Film
Wake in Fright - Film ink

Wake In Fright was first published in 1961 and the film version, Outback, starring Donald Pleasance was released in 1971. Both the book and the film have achieved a cult status as the Australian answer to US and UK novels and films of 1960s youthful alienation. Wake In Fright is the gruelling story of a young Australian schoolteacher on his way back from the outback to Sydney and civilisation…when things start to go wrong. He finds himself stuck overnight in Bundanyabba (‘the Yabba’)- a rough outback mining town. The heat and the misery are described in painful detail as this one evening changes the course of John Grant’s life for ever…all on the flip of a coin. An ill-advised and drink-fuelled visit to a gambling den leaves Grant broke and he realizes he has no way of escaping the Yubba. He descends into a cycle of hangovers, fumbling sexual encounters and increasing self-loathing as he becomes more and more immersed in the grotesque and surreal nightmare that his life has become…revealing the baser side of his own nature as well as the harshness of life in the Australian outback. Grotesque but absolutely compelling, this has become a cult read.

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Hogfather

Posted by Notcot on May 15, 2012 in Cult Film
Hogfather

It’s the night before Hogswatch. And it’s too quiet. There’s snow there’re robins there’re trees covered with decorations but there’s a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys…He’s gone. Susan the governess has got to find him before morning otherwise the sun won’t rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation the Death of Rats and an oh god of hangovers. Worse still someone is coming down the chimney. This time he’s carrying a sack instead of a scythe but there’s something regrettably familiar…Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s true what they say. ‘You’d better watch out…’

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