Today, Urban One Inc’s Reach Media and Radio One announced that Ralph Tresvant, lead singer of famed supergroup New Edition, is now the new host of the network’s long-running syndicated show “Love and R&b,” heard nightly on all affiliate stations, effective February 13.
Ralph Tresvant
David Kantor, CEO of Urban One’s Reach Media and Radio One audio divisions, says, “Ralph Tresvant brings us a timeless brand filled with style, charisma, and star power. He’s a great communicator with vast musical knowledge who will be creating real and riveting radio. Ralph gives us the complete brand who can quickly build a large, loyal following with must listen-to moments each and every night.”
Not coincidentally, the “Love and R&b with Ralph Tresvant” show debuts right before Valentine’s Day, building on the show’s legacy of playing classic slow jams and love songs by artists that are...
Ralph Tresvant
David Kantor, CEO of Urban One’s Reach Media and Radio One audio divisions, says, “Ralph Tresvant brings us a timeless brand filled with style, charisma, and star power. He’s a great communicator with vast musical knowledge who will be creating real and riveting radio. Ralph gives us the complete brand who can quickly build a large, loyal following with must listen-to moments each and every night.”
Not coincidentally, the “Love and R&b with Ralph Tresvant” show debuts right before Valentine’s Day, building on the show’s legacy of playing classic slow jams and love songs by artists that are...
- 2/5/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
“What’s the matter with him? He’d rather talk to a woman than drink?”
Golden Anniversaries, which is co-presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) and the St. Louis Public Library, features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This fourth edition of the event will highlight films from 1971
Monday, April 12th at 7:30pm – Wake In Fright. Intro and discussion by Andrew Wyatt, editor of and film critic for Cinema St. Louis’ blog, The Lens.
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Wake In Fright is a terrifying horror film from 1971 starring Donald Pleasance and directed by Ted Kotcheff . Wake In Fright was based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs,...
Golden Anniversaries, which is co-presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) and the St. Louis Public Library, features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This fourth edition of the event will highlight films from 1971
Monday, April 12th at 7:30pm – Wake In Fright. Intro and discussion by Andrew Wyatt, editor of and film critic for Cinema St. Louis’ blog, The Lens.
Find streaming options on JustWatch
Sign up for the discussion on Eventive
Wake In Fright is a terrifying horror film from 1971 starring Donald Pleasance and directed by Ted Kotcheff . Wake In Fright was based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s safe to say that the world is a bit weird right now. Much to some people’s surprise, horror movies can often be a way for fans to make sense of things and confront their fears in a safe space. Streaming service Shudder offers a large array of horror movies, TV shows, and even podcasts covering the full spectrum of the macabre. But how do you know where to start?
We’ve put together a guide to some of the best films the service has to offer. The Shudder catalogue is always growing and changing so we’ll keep this updated – head back for the latest additions and new suggestions.
(All entries are available in both UK and US unless stated otherwise!)
Hammer The Vampire Lovers (1970)
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After literally decades in which the classic Hammer Films library of horror titles was often difficult to see,...
We’ve put together a guide to some of the best films the service has to offer. The Shudder catalogue is always growing and changing so we’ll keep this updated – head back for the latest additions and new suggestions.
(All entries are available in both UK and US unless stated otherwise!)
Hammer The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Only Available In The US
After literally decades in which the classic Hammer Films library of horror titles was often difficult to see,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Juliano Dornelles on Michael in Bacurau: “When Udo Kier’s character said to the outsiders about the Brazilian collaborators, ‘They don’t speak Brazilian here.’ Brazilian, it’s not a name.”
In celebration of the theatrical release of Bacurau in New York, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles will present Mapping Bacurau, a program of films that include John Sayles’s Lone Star,; Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend; Paul Morrissey’s Blood For Dracula; 70mm print of John Carpenter’s Starman; Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright, and a 4K restoration of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man: The Final Cut.
Kleber Mendonça Filho with Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau: “The horses for us is a very interesting marker that this is a Western. They’re beautiful animals, the way they move.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bacurau, shot by Pedro Sotero, edited by Eduardo Serrano, costumes by Rita Azevedo, with a.
In celebration of the theatrical release of Bacurau in New York, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles will present Mapping Bacurau, a program of films that include John Sayles’s Lone Star,; Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend; Paul Morrissey’s Blood For Dracula; 70mm print of John Carpenter’s Starman; Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright, and a 4K restoration of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man: The Final Cut.
Kleber Mendonça Filho with Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau: “The horses for us is a very interesting marker that this is a Western. They’re beautiful animals, the way they move.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bacurau, shot by Pedro Sotero, edited by Eduardo Serrano, costumes by Rita Azevedo, with a.
- 2/23/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sean Keenan.
Puberty Blues star Sean Keenan has nabbed the lead role in Ten's Wake in Fright two-parter, which begins shooting today..
Keenan will play John Grant, a young school teacher who descends into his own personal nightmare after being stranded in the small outback mining town of Bundanyabba.—.the role made famous by Gary Bond in Ted Kotcheff's 1971 original.
Keenan just worked with director Kriv Stenders, who's helming both episodes of the TV redo, on Foxtel telemovie Australia Day.
He's joined in the cast by David Wenham (Seachange, Lion), Caren Pistorius (Offspring), Gary Sweet (House Husbands), Alex Dimitriades (The Slap), Robyn Malcolm (Upper Middle Bogan), Lee Jones (The Bastard Executioner), Anna Samson (Winners & Losers), Hannah Frederiksen (Hunters) and Jada Alberts (Wentworth), with filming to take place in Broken Hill and Sydney.
Written by Stephen M. Irwin, the Wake In Fright mini is produced by Helen Bowden (The Slap,...
Puberty Blues star Sean Keenan has nabbed the lead role in Ten's Wake in Fright two-parter, which begins shooting today..
Keenan will play John Grant, a young school teacher who descends into his own personal nightmare after being stranded in the small outback mining town of Bundanyabba.—.the role made famous by Gary Bond in Ted Kotcheff's 1971 original.
Keenan just worked with director Kriv Stenders, who's helming both episodes of the TV redo, on Foxtel telemovie Australia Day.
He's joined in the cast by David Wenham (Seachange, Lion), Caren Pistorius (Offspring), Gary Sweet (House Husbands), Alex Dimitriades (The Slap), Robyn Malcolm (Upper Middle Bogan), Lee Jones (The Bastard Executioner), Anna Samson (Winners & Losers), Hannah Frederiksen (Hunters) and Jada Alberts (Wentworth), with filming to take place in Broken Hill and Sydney.
Written by Stephen M. Irwin, the Wake In Fright mini is produced by Helen Bowden (The Slap,...
- 3/6/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
When 19-year old Eve (Lucy Fry) witnesses the slaughter of her family, she narrowly evades death at Mick Taylor’s hands. Hell bent on revenge she takes to the outback in search of the killer, but does she have what it takes to defeat him in his natural domain.
The first thing to notice about the television version of Wolf Creek is the fact that the horror has gone back to a serious tone. Mick Taylor is now the nemesis of seemingly every traveller he meets, and that means we get to see plenty of gore. The fact that Eve manages to survive sets up a revenge plot that works surprisingly well, even if it seemed at first a stretch to believe she could take him on.
What Wolf Creek: The Complete First Series does is to extend what could have been just another directo to market sequel, by...
The first thing to notice about the television version of Wolf Creek is the fact that the horror has gone back to a serious tone. Mick Taylor is now the nemesis of seemingly every traveller he meets, and that means we get to see plenty of gore. The fact that Eve manages to survive sets up a revenge plot that works surprisingly well, even if it seemed at first a stretch to believe she could take him on.
What Wolf Creek: The Complete First Series does is to extend what could have been just another directo to market sequel, by...
- 10/9/2016
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright (1971)
Network Ten has commissioned a new adaptation of Wake In Fright, Kenneth Cook.s classic Australian novel.
Wake In Fright is the story of John Grant, a young school teacher who descends into his own personal nightmare after being stranded in the small outback mining town of Bundanyabba.
Cook.s novel also birthed Ted Kotcheff's iconic 1971 film, which starred Donald Pleasance, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, John Meillon and Gary Bond.
Ten.s two-part series will be produced by Lingo Pictures in association with Endemol Shine Australia, with the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen Nsw.
The news follows on from Foxtel.s announcement earlier this week that it plans to adapt the iconic Picnic at Hanging Rock into a six-part series.
Network Ten head of drama Rick Maier said there are few Australian stories as original or compelling as Wake in Fright.
.Kenneth Cook.s novel,...
Network Ten has commissioned a new adaptation of Wake In Fright, Kenneth Cook.s classic Australian novel.
Wake In Fright is the story of John Grant, a young school teacher who descends into his own personal nightmare after being stranded in the small outback mining town of Bundanyabba.
Cook.s novel also birthed Ted Kotcheff's iconic 1971 film, which starred Donald Pleasance, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, John Meillon and Gary Bond.
Ten.s two-part series will be produced by Lingo Pictures in association with Endemol Shine Australia, with the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen Nsw.
The news follows on from Foxtel.s announcement earlier this week that it plans to adapt the iconic Picnic at Hanging Rock into a six-part series.
Network Ten head of drama Rick Maier said there are few Australian stories as original or compelling as Wake in Fright.
.Kenneth Cook.s novel,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Producer Tony Buckley has received an award from the trust that owns Ted Kotcheff.s Wake in Fright, the 1971 classic that starred Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson.
The Outback-set drama was lost for many years until Buckley, its editor, located the negatives in a Pittsburgh film vault labelled "For Destruction..
The print was digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive and screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, 38 years after it played in competition at the festival.
.It has since been re-released in multiple territories including the Us, the UK, France and Japan, sold internationally by Madman Entertainment.
Us critic Rex Reed declared, "In the final analysis, it may be the greatest Australian film ever made."
The Wake in Fright Trust gave Buckley a cheque at a function at Aftrs last Thursday to recognise his work in recovering the film and his lifetime contribution to the film industry.
The Outback-set drama was lost for many years until Buckley, its editor, located the negatives in a Pittsburgh film vault labelled "For Destruction..
The print was digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive and screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, 38 years after it played in competition at the festival.
.It has since been re-released in multiple territories including the Us, the UK, France and Japan, sold internationally by Madman Entertainment.
Us critic Rex Reed declared, "In the final analysis, it may be the greatest Australian film ever made."
The Wake in Fright Trust gave Buckley a cheque at a function at Aftrs last Thursday to recognise his work in recovering the film and his lifetime contribution to the film industry.
- 5/4/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Howard G. Barnes, a film and television veteran who executive produced the Australian “lost film” Outback, died Dec. 8 of natural causes at The Motion Picture Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, his daughter Christie announced. He was 100. As vice president in charge of Westinghouse Broadcasting’s film division, Barnes exec produced Outback, a 1971 Australian-American thriller that starred Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson in the story of a young schoolteacher (Bond) who finds himself trapped and menaced in a barbaric Australian town. Read more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 The film, directed by
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- 12/26/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Texas was once regarded in the entertainment industry as the Child Star State because of the prevalence of young performers who began their careers starring in the Hasbro and Mattel commercials that shot in Dallas. But the local industry started to change after 2007 with the initiation of the state’s Moving Image Industry Incentive Program. Now, Texas has graduated from child actor launching pad to a television production stand-in for California. The ABC drama “American Crime,” which is set in California’s Central Valley, is slated to shoot its first season in Texas. And while commercial work remains in Dallas, Austin has become a major film and television production center. “The opportunity for work is certainly here,” says Gary Bond, director of film marketing at the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau. Austin, in addition to attracting some 110 new residents a day, has recently played host to productions ranging from Lifetime’s...
- 8/1/2014
- backstage.com
Australia... it's a vast, beautiful, welcoming country. It's also full to bursting with things that can kill you, if the big screen is to be believed. Inspired by Mia Wasikowska's plucky 1,700-mile trek across the Outback in Tracks, we flag up the traps and tropes she should watch out for.
(Un)Natural Phenomena
Exotic wildlife proliferates Down Under, most of it deceptively lethal. Witness the baby stolen by a dingo in horrifying Meryl Streep-starrer A Cry In The Dark (1988). The same – real – tragedy loosely inspired Razorback, a mullet-tastic 1984 horror about a giant marauding pig, directed by Highlander's Russell Mulcahy (mooted tagline: 'There Can Only Be Oink'). The less said about the ballet-dancing were-roos of The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987), the better.
Much more convincing is the giant CG crocodile munching Radha Mitchell's boat tour group (ex-Neighbours actors constitute an Outback peril all of their own) in 2007's Rogue,...
(Un)Natural Phenomena
Exotic wildlife proliferates Down Under, most of it deceptively lethal. Witness the baby stolen by a dingo in horrifying Meryl Streep-starrer A Cry In The Dark (1988). The same – real – tragedy loosely inspired Razorback, a mullet-tastic 1984 horror about a giant marauding pig, directed by Highlander's Russell Mulcahy (mooted tagline: 'There Can Only Be Oink'). The less said about the ballet-dancing were-roos of The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987), the better.
Much more convincing is the giant CG crocodile munching Radha Mitchell's boat tour group (ex-Neighbours actors constitute an Outback peril all of their own) in 2007's Rogue,...
- 4/26/2014
- Digital Spy
★★★★☆Wrenched out of the earth and roundly dusted off for an overdue theatrical and dual format rerelease, Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish Antipodean anomaly Wake in Fright (1971) offers no apologies and takes no prisoners. Its rank, at times skin-crawling depiction of the bestial depths of humanity and sickening substance abuse in the darkest recesses of the Outback may not have made a star of its leading man, Gary Bond, but should now attain the fully-fledged cult status it so evidently deserves. A key text in the undervalued Ozploitation genre, Kotcheff chases the evil that lurks behind small-town banality with the blackest of humour.
- 4/8/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Meillon, John Armstrong | Written by Evan Jones | Directed by Ted Kotcheff
John Grant (Gary Bond) is a bonded school teacher who finds himself teaching in the outback. When travelling back to Sydney he stays overnight in the mining town of Bundanyabba where the lure of gambling and alcohol soon traps him in a nightmare. Seemingly trapped in his own hell Grant clings to the hopes of Sydney while his life spirals to a point so low that the only escape may be the one bullet he has left in his rifle.
At the start of Wake in Fright John Grant is an educated man who looks at his current situation as a form of slavery to the system, being a bonded teacher means that he has to work wherever he is put, and the...
John Grant (Gary Bond) is a bonded school teacher who finds himself teaching in the outback. When travelling back to Sydney he stays overnight in the mining town of Bundanyabba where the lure of gambling and alcohol soon traps him in a nightmare. Seemingly trapped in his own hell Grant clings to the hopes of Sydney while his life spirals to a point so low that the only escape may be the one bullet he has left in his rifle.
At the start of Wake in Fright John Grant is an educated man who looks at his current situation as a form of slavery to the system, being a bonded teacher means that he has to work wherever he is put, and the...
- 3/26/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Mark Kermode: Ted Kotcheff's bleak and terrifying Australian epic, lost for decades, is electrifying
A welcome re-release of Ted Kotcheff's controversial "Ozploitation" thriller, which played briefly in the UK under the name Outback before going missing in action back in the early 70s. Gary Bond is the schoolteacher who descends into an antipodean heart of darkness while stranded in a remote Australian town where drinking, fighting, fucking and gambling are the only distractions. Hailed by Nick Cave as "the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence", Kotcheff's bleak and raggedy epic earned notoriety for its extended kangaroo-hunt set-piece, which blends staged re-enactments with documentary footage of senseless slaughter to extremely distressing effect. Donald Pleasence is electrifying as the alcoholic doctor whose erudite nihilism gives voice to the void. Lost for decades, the film has been handsomely restored from original negative elements with the support of...
A welcome re-release of Ted Kotcheff's controversial "Ozploitation" thriller, which played briefly in the UK under the name Outback before going missing in action back in the early 70s. Gary Bond is the schoolteacher who descends into an antipodean heart of darkness while stranded in a remote Australian town where drinking, fighting, fucking and gambling are the only distractions. Hailed by Nick Cave as "the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence", Kotcheff's bleak and raggedy epic earned notoriety for its extended kangaroo-hunt set-piece, which blends staged re-enactments with documentary footage of senseless slaughter to extremely distressing effect. Donald Pleasence is electrifying as the alcoholic doctor whose erudite nihilism gives voice to the void. Lost for decades, the film has been handsomely restored from original negative elements with the support of...
- 3/9/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The Grand Budapest Hotel | 300: Rise Of An Empire | Wake In Fright | Paranoia | The Stag | Escape From Planet Earth
The Grand Budapest Hotel (15)
(Wes Anderson, 2014, UK/Ger) Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan. 100 mins
You wonder how long Anderson can keep accumulating star actors and creating ever more elaborate microcosms but, judging by this, he's a long way from running out of steam. It's a witty caper-within-a-reminiscence-within-a-flashback set in interwar Europe, through which Fiennes's debonair concierge must flee, protege lobby boy in tow, after an heiress's murder. It's breathlessly paced and breathtakingly designed, but with a solid core – like a fancy cake with an iron file concealed inside.
300: Rise Of An Empire (15)
(Noam Murro, 2014, Us) Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro. 102 mins
With the bar for violent historical silliness raised by Game Of Thrones, this sequel pitches recklessly into another orgy of fetishised classical warfare with comic-book effects.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (15)
(Wes Anderson, 2014, UK/Ger) Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan. 100 mins
You wonder how long Anderson can keep accumulating star actors and creating ever more elaborate microcosms but, judging by this, he's a long way from running out of steam. It's a witty caper-within-a-reminiscence-within-a-flashback set in interwar Europe, through which Fiennes's debonair concierge must flee, protege lobby boy in tow, after an heiress's murder. It's breathlessly paced and breathtakingly designed, but with a solid core – like a fancy cake with an iron file concealed inside.
300: Rise Of An Empire (15)
(Noam Murro, 2014, Us) Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro. 102 mins
With the bar for violent historical silliness raised by Game Of Thrones, this sequel pitches recklessly into another orgy of fetishised classical warfare with comic-book effects.
- 3/8/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Forget The Hangover, this hardcore 1971 offering from the Australian New Wave shows the true hell of outback violence
It comes from the age of Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange, but none of those movies can match the sheer hardcore shock of the Australian New Wave nightmare Wake in Fright from 1971, known at the time in the UK under the title Outback, lost for many years and now on re-release.
It is adapted by Evan Jones from the 1961 novel by journalist and author Kenneth Cook and directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film is a lost weekend in the dark heart of white Australia, which it sees as a whole nation of booze, loneliness and anxiety in the endless outback: its title is a three-word haiku about the beginning of a hangover (although taken from the adage "dream of the devil and wake in fright").
This is a world of blokes fanatically offering each other drinks,...
It comes from the age of Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange, but none of those movies can match the sheer hardcore shock of the Australian New Wave nightmare Wake in Fright from 1971, known at the time in the UK under the title Outback, lost for many years and now on re-release.
It is adapted by Evan Jones from the 1961 novel by journalist and author Kenneth Cook and directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film is a lost weekend in the dark heart of white Australia, which it sees as a whole nation of booze, loneliness and anxiety in the endless outback: its title is a three-word haiku about the beginning of a hangover (although taken from the adage "dream of the devil and wake in fright").
This is a world of blokes fanatically offering each other drinks,...
- 3/7/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A schoolteacher's stopover in an outback town turns into an alcoholic bender in this infamous movie
Once in a while, a long-lost movie will resurface and completely realign one's understanding of an entire national cinema. Such a film is Canadian Ted Kotcheff's 1971 Australian outback-set Wake In Fright, a box-office flop, mauled by a critical establishment in thrall to the cultural cringe, then almost entirely forgotten and thought lost for 40 years. And no wonder: Wake In Fright is among the most excoriating demolitions of the cult of masculinity ever put on film – its Australian variant in particular – and it must have been troubling indeed to gaze into that mirror.
John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies,...
Once in a while, a long-lost movie will resurface and completely realign one's understanding of an entire national cinema. Such a film is Canadian Ted Kotcheff's 1971 Australian outback-set Wake In Fright, a box-office flop, mauled by a critical establishment in thrall to the cultural cringe, then almost entirely forgotten and thought lost for 40 years. And no wonder: Wake In Fright is among the most excoriating demolitions of the cult of masculinity ever put on film – its Australian variant in particular – and it must have been troubling indeed to gaze into that mirror.
John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies,...
- 3/3/2014
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Mayhem Film Festival returns to Broadway on 31st October for four days of horror-tinged screenings, previews and guests. The festival opens this year with internationally-acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg who will be presenting his most recent film Puffball as well as taking part in a very special screening of his masterpiece Don’t Look Now in the eerie settings of St Mary’s Church in the Lace Market.
Other special guests for the festival include American Director Brian Netto who will be presenting Delivery, The Borderlands Director Elliot Goldner and Producer Jennifer Handorf, and director Caradog James and Producer John Giwa-Amu for hi-tech British dark sci-fi The Machine. Mayhem are also hosting a special BAFTA screening of Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear which follows a young couple being tormented while driving in the countryside.
With a total of 17 screenings, Mayhem will present their first silent film screening, Tod Browning’s...
Other special guests for the festival include American Director Brian Netto who will be presenting Delivery, The Borderlands Director Elliot Goldner and Producer Jennifer Handorf, and director Caradog James and Producer John Giwa-Amu for hi-tech British dark sci-fi The Machine. Mayhem are also hosting a special BAFTA screening of Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear which follows a young couple being tormented while driving in the countryside.
With a total of 17 screenings, Mayhem will present their first silent film screening, Tod Browning’s...
- 9/11/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Eureka Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Ted Kotcheff's 1971 Australian survival thriller Wake in Fright, for its Masters of Cinema label. Lost for many years following its debut at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, Wake in Fright is the story of displaced teacher John Grant, stranded at a remote outpost in the Australian outback, who falls in with a particularly rowdy gang of locals who take him on a desperate odyssey of beer, gambling, beer, kangaroo-hunting, beer and even more beer. Eureka's new release of First Blood director Kotcheff's film, which stars Gary Bond and Donald Pleasance, will premiere at Film4 FrightFest in London at the end of this month, before embarking on a limited theatrical run across the UK. Wake in Fright...
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- 8/5/2013
- Screen Anarchy
From the press release:
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?
Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, has unveiled its biggest line-up in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.
This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres.
The world premieres include our opening night attraction The Dead 2: India from the Ford Brothers,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
There's something about 2012 I just can't shake. I find myself going back to the films I enjoyed last year, the ones I went to after a philosophical debate with my downstairs neighbor, or when I wanted to sing and piss her off. There's variety in the movies I chose, ready to set whatever mood you're in.
Wake in Fright (pictured at top) -- Long-considered to be lost (and almost destroyed), this Australian thriller was remastered and acquired by Drafthouse Films last year. It's gritty and sometimes shocking protrayal of masculinity and the pliable nature of the human psyche, not to mention the disturbing performance by Donald Pleasence, is like nothing I've seen before. I'm not sure if I would have ever heard of Wake in Fright (an Australian friend of mine hadn't heard of it), let alone been able to find and watch the movie, if I hadn't attended Fantastic Fest.
Wake in Fright (pictured at top) -- Long-considered to be lost (and almost destroyed), this Australian thriller was remastered and acquired by Drafthouse Films last year. It's gritty and sometimes shocking protrayal of masculinity and the pliable nature of the human psyche, not to mention the disturbing performance by Donald Pleasence, is like nothing I've seen before. I'm not sure if I would have ever heard of Wake in Fright (an Australian friend of mine hadn't heard of it), let alone been able to find and watch the movie, if I hadn't attended Fantastic Fest.
- 1/24/2013
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, which present contemporary and classic films at their unique restaurant/theaters, have delved into the DVD business- and retro movie lovers can thank their lucky stars. One of the most prominent of the Drafthouse releases is Wake in Fright, a 1971 Australian film classic by Ted Kotcheff, a Canadian born director who had never previously set foot Down Under prior to making this movie. Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright is unknown to many film scholars who pride themselves on being acquainted with worthwhile, little-seen films. (I must shamefully admit that I fall into this category myself, having never even heard of the film prior to reviewing the Blu-ray release). Based on the title, I assumed this was a suspense thriller or a horror film. It is neither. In fact, it is virtually impossible to pigeon-hole this movie into a specific genre.
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, which present contemporary and classic films at their unique restaurant/theaters, have delved into the DVD business- and retro movie lovers can thank their lucky stars. One of the most prominent of the Drafthouse releases is Wake in Fright, a 1971 Australian film classic by Ted Kotcheff, a Canadian born director who had never previously set foot Down Under prior to making this movie. Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright is unknown to many film scholars who pride themselves on being acquainted with worthwhile, little-seen films. (I must shamefully admit that I fall into this category myself, having never even heard of the film prior to reviewing the Blu-ray release). Based on the title, I assumed this was a suspense thriller or a horror film. It is neither. In fact, it is virtually impossible to pigeon-hole this movie into a specific genre.
- 1/24/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Australian Outback is known to be tough, rugged and inhospitable. This is a harsh reality made very clear in Director Ted Kotcheff's gritty 1971 drama Wake in Fright, a strange film recently restored in a new 35mm print. The film takes an average Joe and puts him through a crazy ordeal of alcoholism, violence and mild homoeroticism. The story follows young and dashing schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond) who has taken a post in the Australian Outback. He plans to go to Sydney to visit his girlfriend but in order to do that, he must catch a flight from the middle-of-nowhere mining town Bundanyabba or known by the locals simply as “The Yabba”. Once there, John encounters a slew of colorful characters, most of whom find a passion for drinking copious amounts of beer, gambling and brawling.
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- 1/22/2013
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Wake in Fright John Grant (Gary Bond) is a civilized man doing a stint as a schoolteacher in the Australian outback, but trouble arises when he tries to head home to Sydney and never quite makes it. His layover in a small, forgotten town leads to new friends and a night or two (or three) of drunken debauchery, gambling and animal cruelty. This lost then found again classic of Australian cinema is a dread-filled descent into a sun-baked and alcohol-fueled hell. Bond does a fine and frightening job moving from responsible man to lost soul, but it’s Donald Pleasance who stands out as a disreputable doctor with one foot in the crazy house. Director Ted Kotcheff captures deranged desolation to perfection and marks ’70s Australia one of the most terrifying places on earth. That...
- 1/14/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 15, 2013
Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97
Studio: Drafthouse/Rlj
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in the 1971 thriller Wake in Fright, a “lost” cult film that was “recovered” and restored before making a return to the theatrical repertory circuit in the fall of 2012.
Wake in Fright tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of the deranged, hard-drinking residents of a remote Australian town. John Grant (Gary Bond, Anne of the Thousand Days) teaches at a tiny school in the outback. On his way to Sydney to catch a vacation flight, he stops in a rural mining town, where he is reluctantly drawn into the macho antics of the local men. After losing his money in the gambling game two-up, he is taken on a drunken and brutal kangaroo hunt...
Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97
Studio: Drafthouse/Rlj
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in the 1971 thriller Wake in Fright, a “lost” cult film that was “recovered” and restored before making a return to the theatrical repertory circuit in the fall of 2012.
Wake in Fright tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of the deranged, hard-drinking residents of a remote Australian town. John Grant (Gary Bond, Anne of the Thousand Days) teaches at a tiny school in the outback. On his way to Sydney to catch a vacation flight, he stops in a rural mining town, where he is reluctantly drawn into the macho antics of the local men. After losing his money in the gambling game two-up, he is taken on a drunken and brutal kangaroo hunt...
- 12/20/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Drafthouse Films announced that they will be bringing 1971′s Wake in Fright to Blu-ray and DVD in January. Continue reading for the official release details and cover art:
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in Wake In Fright, a revered and groundbreaking thriller that for 40 years lived only in the memory of its initial viewers. But following its miraculous recovery and restoration, the “lost” film made a triumphant return to screens nationwide this fall. Now it will make its home entertainment debut when Drafthouse Films releases it on high-definition Blu-ray and DVD on January 15, 2013.
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films of modern Australian cinema. Author Neil Rattigan, in his book about the New Australian Cinema, Images of Australia, called it “a cinematic trip into hell. … No other Australian...
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in Wake In Fright, a revered and groundbreaking thriller that for 40 years lived only in the memory of its initial viewers. But following its miraculous recovery and restoration, the “lost” film made a triumphant return to screens nationwide this fall. Now it will make its home entertainment debut when Drafthouse Films releases it on high-definition Blu-ray and DVD on January 15, 2013.
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films of modern Australian cinema. Author Neil Rattigan, in his book about the New Australian Cinema, Images of Australia, called it “a cinematic trip into hell. … No other Australian...
- 12/20/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Ted Kotcheff's once lost award-winning film Wake in Fright is getting set to make its long awaited arrival onto DVD and Blu-ray, and believe me, horror fans; this is one trip to the Outback you're really gonna want to take!
From the Press Release
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian Outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in Wake In Fright, a revered and groundbreaking thriller that for 40 years lived only in the memory of its initial viewers. But following its miraculous recovery and restoration, the "lost" film made a triumphant return to screens nationwide this fall. Now it will make its home entertainment debut when Drafthouse Films releases it on high-definition Blu-ray and DVD on January 15, 2013.
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films of modern Australian cinema. Author Neil Rattigan, in his book about the New Australian Cinema,...
From the Press Release
A schoolteacher gets waylaid in the Australian Outback and takes a journey into the heart of darkness in Wake In Fright, a revered and groundbreaking thriller that for 40 years lived only in the memory of its initial viewers. But following its miraculous recovery and restoration, the "lost" film made a triumphant return to screens nationwide this fall. Now it will make its home entertainment debut when Drafthouse Films releases it on high-definition Blu-ray and DVD on January 15, 2013.
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films of modern Australian cinema. Author Neil Rattigan, in his book about the New Australian Cinema,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Drafthouse Films introduces the Australian film, Wake in Fright, to the Blu-ray format on January 15th.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff , the movie tells the story of a British schoolteacher's descent into personal demoralization at the hands of the deranged, hard-drinking residents of a remote Australian town. John Grant (Gary Bond) teaches at a tiny school in the outback. On his way to Sydney to catch a vacation flight, he stops in a rural mining town, where he is reluctantly drawn into the macho antics of the local men. After losing his money in the gambling game two-up, he is taken on a drunken and brutal kangaroo hunt with three of the beer-guzzling louts - a horrifying ordeal that culminates in a shattering sexual assault.
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Directed by Ted Kotcheff , the movie tells the story of a British schoolteacher's descent into personal demoralization at the hands of the deranged, hard-drinking residents of a remote Australian town. John Grant (Gary Bond) teaches at a tiny school in the outback. On his way to Sydney to catch a vacation flight, he stops in a rural mining town, where he is reluctantly drawn into the macho antics of the local men. After losing his money in the gambling game two-up, he is taken on a drunken and brutal kangaroo hunt with three of the beer-guzzling louts - a horrifying ordeal that culminates in a shattering sexual assault.
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- 12/19/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
by Steve Dollar
Redeemed from a Pittsburgh warehouse days before it was to be incinerated, the negatives of Ted Kotcheff's 1971 beer-soaked Outback misadventure Wake in Fright were painstakingly restored in 2009, marking the return of a long-lost classic. A bare-knuckled saga of madness and mayhem in a land without women but lots of kangaroos, the film details the humiliating transformation of uptight, city-slicker schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond) when his holiday trip home from the boondocks gets sidetracked during a stopover in "The Yabba"–a frontier town where, after losing all his money in a frenzied gambling game called "Two Up," he falls in with a crew of local rowdies, including an amazing Donald Pleasance as an alcoholic doctor given to existential pronouncements and bouts of sodomy. Admirers of the movie, whose number include the rocker Nick Cave and director Martin Scorsese, consider it the great lost Australian film, even...
Redeemed from a Pittsburgh warehouse days before it was to be incinerated, the negatives of Ted Kotcheff's 1971 beer-soaked Outback misadventure Wake in Fright were painstakingly restored in 2009, marking the return of a long-lost classic. A bare-knuckled saga of madness and mayhem in a land without women but lots of kangaroos, the film details the humiliating transformation of uptight, city-slicker schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond) when his holiday trip home from the boondocks gets sidetracked during a stopover in "The Yabba"–a frontier town where, after losing all his money in a frenzied gambling game called "Two Up," he falls in with a crew of local rowdies, including an amazing Donald Pleasance as an alcoholic doctor given to existential pronouncements and bouts of sodomy. Admirers of the movie, whose number include the rocker Nick Cave and director Martin Scorsese, consider it the great lost Australian film, even...
- 10/12/2012
- GreenCine Daily
The Australian Outback is known to be tough, rugged and inhospitable. This is a harsh reality made very clear in Director Ted Kotcheff's gritty 1971 drama Wake in Fright, a strange film recently restored in a new 35mm print. The film takes an average Joe and puts him through a crazy ordeal of alcoholism, violence and mild homoeroticism. The story follows young and dashing schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond) who has taken a post in the Australian Outback. He plans to go to Sydney to visit his girlfriend but in order to do that, he must catch a flight from the middle-of-nowhere mining town Bundanyabba or known by the locals simply as “The Yabba”. Once there, John encounters a slew of colorful characters, most of whom find a passion for drinking copious amounts of beer, gambling and brawling.
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- 10/7/2012
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
Watch 3 new clips from the Wake in Fright thriller brought to the screen again by Drafthouse FIlms. The Australian landmark thriller helmed by Ted Kotcheff (known for his work on the classic Sylvester Stallone starrer Rambo: First Blood), opens in theaters on November 5th (New York), Los Angeles on October 19th and nationally from October to November. The film made its debut at Cannes in 1971 and is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson star in the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Virtually unseen in the United States and renowned in its home country after years of neglect, Wake in Fright is ripe for rediscovery and returns to cinemas,...
- 10/3/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch 3 new clips from the Wake in Fright thriller brought to the screen again by Drafthouse FIlms. The Australian landmark thriller helmed by Ted Kotcheff (known for his work on the classic Sylvester Stallone starrer Rambo: First Blood), opens in theaters on November 5th (New York), Los Angeles on October 19th and nationally from October to November. The film made its debut at Cannes in 1971 and is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson star in the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Virtually unseen in the United States and renowned in its home country after years of neglect, Wake in Fright is ripe for rediscovery and returns to cinemas,...
- 10/3/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Down & Outback: Lost Australian Classic a Moody Nightmare
Long considered a lost classic, spurring a decade long search for the film’s negative (which ended finally in 2004 when it was found in a box marked for destruction in Pittsburgh), Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright is getting a much deserved re-release after enjoying a recent spat of revitalized festival circuit glory. While the film’s been listed among a selection of titles referred to as Ozploitation, thanks to the 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood, Kotcheff’s film is more Ozploration than it is an exploitative mechanism. That’s not to say it isn’t without some sensational, notorious sequences, but clearly this is cinema that is more on par with contemporary auteurs that explored the Outback to more celebratory effect like Weir, Schepisi, and fellow Brit, Nicolas Roeg.
A bonded school teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond), stationed in Tiboondi, the...
Long considered a lost classic, spurring a decade long search for the film’s negative (which ended finally in 2004 when it was found in a box marked for destruction in Pittsburgh), Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright is getting a much deserved re-release after enjoying a recent spat of revitalized festival circuit glory. While the film’s been listed among a selection of titles referred to as Ozploitation, thanks to the 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood, Kotcheff’s film is more Ozploration than it is an exploitative mechanism. That’s not to say it isn’t without some sensational, notorious sequences, but clearly this is cinema that is more on par with contemporary auteurs that explored the Outback to more celebratory effect like Weir, Schepisi, and fellow Brit, Nicolas Roeg.
A bonded school teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond), stationed in Tiboondi, the...
- 10/2/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, but as the film made its way across the Atlantic, its stateside distributor decided to do a bit of rebranding. Against Kotcheff’s will, his intense fish-out-of-water tale was released in New York the following winter as Outback, a perfectly bland title for a movie that’s anything but. If the new name threw some film-goers off the trail, United Artists’ failure, as Kotcheff recalls it, to “spend 25 cents on publicity” made certain that the rest of its potential audience never heard about it in the first place. Despite praise from influential critics, almost nobody in America saw it, and it soon closed.
But now Wake in Fright is back, and the story of its revival is almost as interesting as the film itself. Decades after its release, a member of the original filmmaking team...
But now Wake in Fright is back, and the story of its revival is almost as interesting as the film itself. Decades after its release, a member of the original filmmaking team...
- 10/1/2012
- by Kevin Canfield
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Every now and then, the cinematic gods smile upon devoted cinephiles and a lost treasure is unearthed from the depths of time. And while we'll forever hope that in someone's attic sits the original ending to Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons," if we have to watch the 1971 Aussie flick "Wake In Fright" in the meantime, that's just fine by us. An essential part of the Ozploitation wave, and a key picture in Australia's horror genre, the Ted Kotcheff-directed film eluded even the most savvy of movie hunters for a long time. With no home video release or broadcasts, many thought "Wake In Fright" -- which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival -- would forever remain a curio. But lo and behld, a new 35mm print has been struck, Drafthouse Films has picked it up and a whole new generation will get to experience "Wake In Fright" for the first time.
- 10/1/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Wake In Fright is not the easiest movie to sum up in a couple of sentences, but the fact that goth overlord and Proposition screenwriter Nick Cave has described this 1971 thriller as “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence” gives the potential viewer some hint of what is in store.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood), the movie tracks a discontented schoolteacher (Gary Bond) as he descends into a hell of alcohol- and sex-fueled self-loathing during a visit to the remote outback mining town of Bundanyabba — or “the Yabba” as its booze-drenched residents refer to it. What...
Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood), the movie tracks a discontented schoolteacher (Gary Bond) as he descends into a hell of alcohol- and sex-fueled self-loathing during a visit to the remote outback mining town of Bundanyabba — or “the Yabba” as its booze-drenched residents refer to it. What...
- 10/1/2012
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Considered lost for years, Wake in Fright is finally getting the release it is due. Anthony Buckley, the film’s editor took it upon himself to sleuth out a negative, eventually finding paydirt in Pittsburgh nearly a decade after the search began. It was discovered in a bin labelled to be destroyed. Wake‘s tenacity to stay alive is a testament to the film’s unflinching, voyeuristic look at humanity under pressure, and the weight that can crush if it is allowed. Wake in Fright is the kind of film you watch and can’t forget, like it or not. It drags you into its uninhibited grime to drown you in a sweaty beer lather. You can see the surface, know that a fresh breath is within reach, but its grip just strengthens and pulls you in deeper. Witnessing the uncontrolled descent of a man becoming what he loathes most is a jarring spectacle. To...
- 9/28/2012
- by Michael Treveloni
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
With the remastered version of Ted Kotcheff's classic but little seen Wake In Fright soon to screen at Fantastic Fest before rolling out on a limited Us release we've got an extensive gallery of stills from the film for your perusal. Check out what Nick Cave has called "the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence". And remember: You can click on any image to enlarge.Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged...
- 9/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It's not too often that a little seen movie from the '70s gets re-released in theatres as if it was brand new, but thanks to the good folks at Drafthouse Films, Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright is finally getting the attention it deserves. Premiering at Cannes in 1971, the gritty Australian thriller left a serious impression on many of the directors who saw it there including Martin Scorsese who calls it "deeply unsettling and disturbing." However, without much advertising behind it, the movie failed to find an audience in theatres and was soon forgotten and eventually lost to the ravages of time. Fortunately, the cinematographer went on a hunt to find the original negatives and came across them somewhere in Philadelphia, one week before they were supposed to be destroyed. The movie has since been restored and will premiere at Fantastic Fest before playing in theatres across the U.
- 9/19/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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Gotham's reckoning is coming to your home just in time for the holidays. Hypable reports that "The Dark Knight Rises" will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download on Dec. 3, though unfortunately we won't be seeing the rumored longer cut of the film.
If you're like Huffington Post, there was nary a middle/high school sleepover that didn't involve a dramatic viewing of "Now & Then" followed by an impromptu flashlight seance. But it's been almost 17 years since that journey with Roberta, Teeny, Samantha and Chrissy ... check out the "Now & Then" cast, well, now.
Is the new Chosen One ... an angel? The CW is looking for the next "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and may have found it with "Embrace," a series based on Jessica Shirvington's Ya novel about twentysomething Violet Eden, who discovers that...
Gotham's reckoning is coming to your home just in time for the holidays. Hypable reports that "The Dark Knight Rises" will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download on Dec. 3, though unfortunately we won't be seeing the rumored longer cut of the film.
If you're like Huffington Post, there was nary a middle/high school sleepover that didn't involve a dramatic viewing of "Now & Then" followed by an impromptu flashlight seance. But it's been almost 17 years since that journey with Roberta, Teeny, Samantha and Chrissy ... check out the "Now & Then" cast, well, now.
Is the new Chosen One ... an angel? The CW is looking for the next "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and may have found it with "Embrace," a series based on Jessica Shirvington's Ya novel about twentysomething Violet Eden, who discovers that...
- 9/19/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
Wake In Fright is a terrifying horror film from 1971 starring Donald Pleasance and directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood, Weekend At Bernies, North Dallas Forty) . Never heard of it? You’ll be hearing a lot about it soon. Wake In Fright opens theatrically in New York on October 5 at The Film Forum (NYC), October 19 at The Nuart (La) and will have a national release to follow in major cities after screening at Fantastic Fest 2012 next week (Drafthouse Films). Wake In Fright was based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos and sexual carousing than in such niceties as education or propriety. The methodical shattering of Bond’s dearly held values...
- 9/19/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There’s a new trailer and the final poster for the Australian film Wake In Fright. You can see both below.
Here’s a little bit about the film:
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated “doctor” played by Donald Pleasence), while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.
The film made its world premiere at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for a Palme D’Or and its Us distribution rights were sold. Retitled Outback and hurried into a few theaters across the country, the film barely played for...
Here’s a little bit about the film:
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated “doctor” played by Donald Pleasence), while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.
The film made its world premiere at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for a Palme D’Or and its Us distribution rights were sold. Retitled Outback and hurried into a few theaters across the country, the film barely played for...
- 9/18/2012
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
It's always nice to see a lost film find an audience, and that is indeed the case with Wake in Fright. The flick is set to screen at this year's Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, but we also have the skinny on when and where you can dig on it should you not be in the Longhorn State.
Ted Kotcheff's award-winning film Wake in Fright opens theatrically in New York on October 5th at The Film Forum (NYC), October 19 at The Nuart (La) and will have a national release to follow in major cities after screening at Fantastic Fest 2012 this week (Drafthouse Films).
Fantastic Fest 2012 Screening Times:
Saturday, September 22 at 9:00pm (Alamo Lamar)
Wednesday, September 26 at 12:00pm (Alamo Lamar)
“Wake in Fright is a deeply – and I mean deeply – unsettling and disturbing movie. I saw it when it premiered at Cannes in 1971, and it left me speechless.
Ted Kotcheff's award-winning film Wake in Fright opens theatrically in New York on October 5th at The Film Forum (NYC), October 19 at The Nuart (La) and will have a national release to follow in major cities after screening at Fantastic Fest 2012 this week (Drafthouse Films).
Fantastic Fest 2012 Screening Times:
Saturday, September 22 at 9:00pm (Alamo Lamar)
Wednesday, September 26 at 12:00pm (Alamo Lamar)
“Wake in Fright is a deeply – and I mean deeply – unsettling and disturbing movie. I saw it when it premiered at Cannes in 1971, and it left me speechless.
- 9/18/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Wake of Fright Trailer, Poster. Ted Kotcheff‘s Wake of Fright (1971) remastered re-release movie trailer, movie poster stars Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, and John Meillon. Wake of Fright‘s plot synopsis: “Alongside Max Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films [...]
Continue reading: Wake In Fright (1971) Movie Trailer, Poster: Ted Kotcheff, Gary Bond...
Continue reading: Wake In Fright (1971) Movie Trailer, Poster: Ted Kotcheff, Gary Bond...
- 9/18/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
It's a film that Nick Cave has called the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence and Ted Kotcheff's classic Wake In Fright will soon be terrifying audiences at Fantastic Fest before rolling out to a limited theatrical release starting on October 5th in New York and October 19th in La before hitting other centers. All of which means, of course, a new trailer.Alongside Max Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including...
- 9/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Check out the trailer and poster for Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright Australian thriller The film helmed by Ted Kotcheff opens on October 5th at Film Forum, followed by a Los Angeles release on October 19th, and national from October-November. Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant (Gary Bond), a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough Australian outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left.
- 9/17/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the trailer and poster for Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright Australian thriller The film helmed by Ted Kotcheff opens on October 5th at Film Forum, followed by a Los Angeles release on October 19th, and national from October-November. Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant (Gary Bond), a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough Australian outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left.
- 9/17/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Are you new to The 'Yabba?"Almost a decade before Mad Max was unleashed, and before directors like Peter Weir, Phil Noyce and Fred Schepisi (not to mention Crocodile Dundee, mate) started to define Australia on screen for world audiences, a Yank named Ted Kotcheff and two Brits, Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence, swaggered into the Australian desert and came out with a film called Wake in Fright. The film, also known overseas as Outback, wasn't the quaint observational portrait by an outsider that some might have expected. Instead it was a shocking, grubby movie that proved a searing indictment of Australian working class men and the outback culture that had been mythologized by Australians for decades. It has since been described as a horror film. Nick Cave has called it "the best and most terrifying...
- 7/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Drafthouse Films announced today their North American acquisition of rights to Ted Kotcheff's Australian thriller, "Wake in Fright," a film that has been restored to its original glory since its 1971 Cannes debut. Seen as one of the most influential films for the development of modern Australian cinema, the film stars Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond and Silvia Kay among others. "Wake in Fright" screened again at Cannes in 2009 after its restoration was complete, and became one of two films to be shown twice in the history of Cannes. It comes out October 5 at Film Forum in New York City and then heads to The NuArt in Los Angeles on October 19, with an expansion to additional markets before a home video and VOD release in the first quarter of 2013. "Wake in Fright" tells the frightening tale of a teacher's downward spiral into destruction. A synopsis of the film from its official acquisition release follows: Awe-inspiring,...
- 7/19/2012
- by Srimathi Sridhar
- Indiewire
Wake in Fright (aka Outback) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Although the film was prominently featured in the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, opportunities to actually see it have been scarce. A new eidtion of Wake in Fright on Region 4 DVD and all-region Blu-Ray from Australian distributor Madman fills in the gap left by a decades-long absence of a quality video release.
A brief background discussion is useful in understanding the importance of this new release. Evan Jones wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same. Ted Kotcheff, who is Canadian, sat in the director's chair. The film was completed in 1970, but the its brutal depiction of life in the Australian outback received a chilly public reception upon its 1971 theatrical release. Critics, however, embraced the Wake in Fright with Garry Maddox of the Sydney Morning...
A brief background discussion is useful in understanding the importance of this new release. Evan Jones wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same. Ted Kotcheff, who is Canadian, sat in the director's chair. The film was completed in 1970, but the its brutal depiction of life in the Australian outback received a chilly public reception upon its 1971 theatrical release. Critics, however, embraced the Wake in Fright with Garry Maddox of the Sydney Morning...
- 12/10/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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