A middle-class Australian couple decides to spend the weekend on the coast "finding themselves". Although their taste and opinions differ, we realize that their personalities and individualistic attitudes once made them close. She prefers the hotel, he prefers camping. The conflict literally infects their weekend, and the situation worsens when they get lost in a nature that proves to be very hostile. Unless, of course, it’s just nature reflecting their own hostility.
The originality of this resolutely 70s-era film lies in the fact that nature and horror are not combined to critique the return to enchanted earth, as was the case in the American redneck films a few years prior. Here the characters are deeply unappealing and represent the Western lifestyle in a joyfully cynical manner. The quality of the direction and cinematography, both very classy, gives this story a strange and disturbing charm. Hollywood just got wind of it and plans to remake the film scene for scene… with Grant Page as the stuntman!
Producer Richard Brennan will introduce the film
