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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
tenseoppressivebleakclaustrophobicunsettlingslow-burngrimvisceral
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)
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