Wake in Fright
In honor of the ending of the school year and the start of summer vacation. the From Below Microcinema will be showing Wake in Fright (1971) on Thursday, June 20 at 8pm.
Here is the link to reserve a seat. Doors will be at 7:50 and we’re starting the movie at 8:10!
John Grant, an Australian teacher on vacation, becomes stranded in a rural hellworld of drinking, gambling, and kangaroo hunting. At once horrified and seduced by the combatively generous hospitality of the men of “the Yabba,” John unravels, dropped into a violent abyss of stained shirts, sweat, fly swarms, beer-streaked chins, frenzied toasts, and the punishing sunlight of the Outback. Wake in Fright is a fantastically gritty keystone of Australian New Wave cinema and is often credited as a progenitor of “Ozploitation.” It does bear noting this film is notorious for featuring footage in one scene of actual kangaroos being killed. Director Ted Kolchoff rode along with a group of Australian hunters to document their practices and spliced the results into the film.