A young schoolteacher finds himself unable to escape from an isolated town in the Australian outback. This is a dark and brutal film that’s simultaneously hard to watch and just as hard to look away from. One of the ultimate tales of a stranger in a strange land, with a level of beer consumption that could put you off on the beverage. It combines everything there is to fear about Australia, made even more disturbing by a lack of outrage from the people who live there.
The film is notoriously known for a sequence shot during a real kangaroo hunt. They were not shot for the film, and it was encouraged by The Royal Australian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who wanted the world to see what was happening. Even without that sequence, the film is intense and unhinged. Comparable to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, just replace chainsaws with beer.
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