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Wake in Fright
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
R
1972
1h 49m
Drama
,
Thriller
7.5
96%
83%
7.3
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After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
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Cast of Wake in Fright
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
Dawn Lake
Joyce
Harry Lawrence
Higgins
Robert McDarra
Pig Eyes
Owen Moase
1st Controller
John Dalleen
2nd Controller
Wake in Fright Ratings & Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Wake in Fright is essential viewing for anyone interested in the roots of male violence.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
Many reissues claim the mantle of lost masterpiece, but Wake in Fright is the genuine article.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Animal lovers, beware.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
A Conradian parable of a man succumbing to the wild, the film is remarkable for its raw, pointed dithe suggests, and you'll find the beast concealed behind the mask of propriety.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing.
CinemaDope
Glenn Lovell
This 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?
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Several decades later, it still chills.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A neglected gem.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Wake in Fright" is true horror.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
"Wake in Fright" works both as an early instance of "Ozploitation" cinema and as a harsh critique of Australian colonialism and the absurdity of trying to bring so-called civilization to this vast arid wilderness.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Kotcheff, working from a novel adapted by Modesty Blaise screenwriter Evan Jones, ratchets up the sick humor and ghastly ribaldry to nail-biting heights.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Wake in Fright" is a monster movie, and the monster is us.
Boston Phoenix
Peter Keough
Orchestrates landscape, music, demonic faces, and lots of blood, sweat, and vomit into a stark bacchanalia of men having fun.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
In some ways "Wake in Fright" is like an Australian "Deliverance," except this is one man's journey and he participates in the debauchery and savagery.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Australian tale of a holiday gone wrong has a potent, distinctive creepiness.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A legendary and controversial Aussie classic, although it's long been available only in poor-quality video releases.
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
Unlike many "lost" treasures, Wake in Fright lives up to its nightmarish reputation.
Observer
Rex Reed
Wake in Fright is the closest a movie can get to a primal scream.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
A road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny.
Slant Magazine
John Semley
The film's vision of masculine self-sufficiency is built around--and on, via Australia's own bloody colonial history--an elemental violence.
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