Wake in Fright (2017)

Directed by

Kriv Stenders

Genre

mystery

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

18+

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A schoolteacher gets stranded in a remote Australian outback town after missing the last train home. He descends into a nightmarish ordeal involving the town's violent and degrading rituals.

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What happens

Wake in Fright is an Australian miniseries based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, which first aired on Network Ten in October 2017. Directed by Kriv Stenders and written by Stephen M. Irwin, the series features an ensemble cast that includes Sean Keenan, Alex Dimitriades, Caren Pistorius, David Wenham, Anna Samson, Gary Sweet, and Robyn Malcolm. It is the second filmed adaptation of Cook's novel, following Ted Kotcheff's 1971 film version. As with earlier versions of the story, the series depicts the psychological journey of John Grant, a schoolteacher who has been marooned in an isolated outback town. Although it occasionally makes closer references to the novel than the film, the overall story was largely reworked for the series to fit a contemporary setting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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