Wake in Fright Trailer

WAKE IN FRIGHT tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub...

However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction.

When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• madman
• cinema
• australian
• horror
• thriller
• ozploitation
• sweat
• dust
• beer
• cannes

[MondoMatty]

Seriously good film.

[SIngli6]

"OUTBACK"???!!!!!

[Aggiemcdee]

I just watched this on ABC2 Friday night. What an amazing film. Did not have a clue where it was going, it completely took me by surprise. Definitely a cult classic.

[athiest32]

I just watched this movie. Hardcore.

[1972nrm]

Seriously intense movie, needs a much wider audience.

[huggkruka]

Amazingly good film, ESPECIALLY for a 70's movie! Not a dull moment.

[BAMorg]

We're looking forward to screening this at BAMcinemaFEST!

[frankbooth64]

It was 1971! Long before MAD MAX and CROCODILE DUNDEE. Most people in the USA didn't know what "outback" meant.

[donstuie]

Saw this film for the first time not long ago. Brilliant, and thank God it's been restored. But a nasty, difficult one to watch nonetheless.

[mjhennessay]

even the stupidest American knows what the outback is, even if only from the Outback Steakhouse, ya tool!

[Sandbag209]

FRIGHTENING WAKE