John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. At the end of term before Christmas holidays, he plans to visit his girlfriend in Sydney. In order to catch a flight to Sydney, he takes a train to the nearby mining town called Bundanyabba (or "The Yabba"), and plans to stay there overnight before moving on further to the airport. But things go grossly out of script as he is engulfed by the Yabba and it... (Full plot summary below)
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John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. At the end of term before Christmas holidays, he plans to visit his girlfriend in Sydney. In order to catch a flight to Sydney, he takes a train to the nearby mining town called Bundanyabba (or "The Yabba"), and plans to stay there overnight before moving on further to the airport. But things go grossly out of script as he is engulfed by the Yabba and its disconcerting residents.
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| ABC Radio (Australia)Matt NealWake In Fright gets beneath Australia's skin and stares into a dark heart that was hidden beneath the ochre dust and boozy bonhomie. One of the greatest Aussie films of all time. |
| Village VoiceKarina LongworthA road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirA legendary and controversial Aussie classic, although it's long been available only in poor-quality video releases. |
| CinemaDopeGlenn LovellThis outrageously overlooked masterpiece is a wake-up call to film scholars who will now have to rethink what came first ‒ this film or Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs," which basically charts the same territory? |
| The SkinnyLewis PorteousThe kindness of strangers has never seemed more terrifying than in this dusty, sun-bleached masterpiece, now stunningly restored. |
| Film4Anton Bitelderives its brand of feral menace not from monsters, masked killers, or any of the other avatars of conventional horror, but rather from a sober-eyed perspective on a society reeling under the malign influence of its own basest impulses. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyForms a neatly symmetrical, perfectly Kafkaesque narrative. This way madness lies . . . |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)A movie that shows us plenty of unsettling stuff but also knows that what viewers imagine is much more disturbing than what any movie can show. |
| StarburstAndrew PollardJohn Grant is absolutely note-perfect as the stiff-upper-lipped Englishman stranded in an environment that he couldn't be any further removed from. |
| El FinancieroDaniel KrauzeWake in Fright deserves to occupy a place next to Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness, all of them stories that force us to observe the veil, so thin, that separates civilization from barbarism. [Full review in Spanish] |
