💎💎WISH
YOU WERE HERE💎💎 –
Wish You Were Here is a 2012 Australian mystery drama film directed by Kieran
Darcy-Smith and starring Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer and Antony
Starr. Set in Cambodia and Australia, it details the aftermath of a Southeast
Asian holiday gone awry for two couples. Joel Edgerton stars as Dave Flannery,
who reluctantly vacations in Cambodia with his pregnant wife Alice (Felicity
Price), her younger sister Steph and new boyfriend Jeremy. After a night of
partying, Jeremy vanishes without a trace. Dave and the women return to their lives,
each bearing differing degrees of knowledge about what happened and slowly put the
pieces of the puzzle together to find out what happened that night. Dave
reveals he slept with Steph on the beach. He went back to the hotel, but Alice was
asleep. He goes for a walk and meets a man, who offers to take him to a small
bar. Dave went and began drinking. The customers at the bar began harassing him
and tried to get him to take a prostitute, but he declined. He gets angry and
throws all his money at them. He tells them he doesn’t want the prostitute but
will pay for her. The men drag an 8-year-old girl from the backroom. Horrified,
Dave begins screaming at them. Jeremy comes out of a backroom and apologizes for
Dave, trying to calm the men down. The men lure Jeremy and Dave outside. Dave
threatens to call the police on the men for child prostitution, but Jeremy
tells Dave the men are the Vietnamese mafia. In a fight, Jeremy is stabbed to
death. Dave is restrained and the men find his address. They say that if he
tells anyone, they will go to his house and kill his family. In the present,
Alice gets into an argument with Dave. She goes to Steph’s house and confronts
her. On the way home, she gets into a car accident and is rushed to the hospital,
where she prematurely gives birth to the baby. In the end, Dave tells the police
the truth of Jeremy’s death.
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asia holiday.
Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family
desperate for answers about Jeremy’s disappearance. When Alice’s sister Steph
returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend
went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what
happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in
Cambodia? Screen veteran Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature directorial debut
with this ambitious non-linear drama centering on a group of Australian friends
whose lives are irreparably changed after one of them goes missing during a
spontaneous vacation in Cambodia. Alice and Dave are about to become new
parents when they agree to join Alice’s little sister Steph and her new beau Jeremy
on a sun-soaked trip to Cambodia. Their tropical retreat quickly turns bad, however,
when Jeremy vanishes without a trace. As the investigation into Jeremy’s disappearance
begins to reveal the nefarious motivations behind their trip, the remaining three
struggle to carry out with their lives in Sydney amidst the threat that even
more damning details will emerge.
💎💎SNAP
SHOT (ONE MORE MINUTE)💎💎 –
Angela, a naïve hairdresser, is kicked out of the house by her puritanical
mother. At the behest of a model client, she gets her first modeling gig. While
her future seems bright, she soon learns that everyone around her wants to use
her. Angela, a naïve young hairdresser is thrown out of home by her puritanical
mother. At the behest of one of her model clients, she gets her first modeling
gig. While her future seems bright, she has no idea what sinister things surround
her. Nineteen-year-old Angela Bailey has self esteem issues based on comments
by her overly critical mother, with who she lives and who absconds with whatever
money she makes working as a hairdresser. Her mother would be satisfied with
Angela just keeping this job and marrying her ex-boyfriend Daryl Whipple, who operates
his own ice cream truck. Angela hates Daryl, who is following her in an effort for
her to get back together with him. As such, Angela dreams of getting away
literally and figuratively from her life, preferably somewhere overseas. One of
her hairdressing clients, famous model Madeline Stone, thinks that Angela would
make a good model and introduces her to a fashion photographer named Linsey.
Although she doesn’t fully trust Linsey, Angela agrees to pose for him,
topless, for a possible advertising campaign, as she can’t pass up what looks
to be a lucrative opportunity. This opportunity leads to Angela living in
Linsey’s compound and hanging out with other models while she waits for her
next big break. But Angela learns that there are some in her new life who have
ulterior motives in their actions towards her. And concurrently, Daryl seems to
be stepping up his intimidation tactics in stalking her, So, when Angela sees
an opportunity for her dream, she leaps at it, unless someone stops her altogether.
After being thrown out of her own home by her puritanical
mother, a young, naïve, pretty and impressionable hairdresser named Angela is lured
into modeling by an impudent as well as equally bumptious model, named
Madeline, who at her behest is talked into stripping for what is supposed to be
a special photo shoot more or less her first modeling gig. However, while
Angela’s future seems bright for the moment, her gaiety unfortunately is short
lived as she has no idea what baleful things surround her. It is not too long
after this that she subsequently starts to fall victim to being stalked by a sinister,
mysterious assailant who will stop at nothing to get his hands-on Angela in a
twisted game of Cat & Mouse. Her peculiar ex-boyfriend Daryl is also rather
relentlessly possessive, in addition to quite eerie, plus seems to be hiding something.
Could he be the one responsible for all of this? Who exactly can she trust?
Meanwhile, Madeline’s husband Elmer also wants to photograph her naked to which
the mother then proceeds to rob the girl that ensues in a desperate fight for
her life. Will she succeed?
💎💎ANGEL
OF MINE💎💎-
Angel of Mine is a 2019 thriller drama film directed by Kim Farrant and written
by Luke Davies and David Regal. It stars Noomi Rapace, Luke Evans, Yvonne
Strahovski and Richard Roxburgh. It is a remake of the 2008 French film Mark of
an Angel. A mother is distraught with the loss of her young daughter Rosie. She’s
desperately trying to process the steps of grieving when she suddenly starts to
lose a grip on her reality. The chaos surrounding her leads her to believe her younger
daughter may still be alive. However, when she reaches out to those around her,
no one believes her story, so she’s forced to figure out what is happening to
her on her own. After growing suspicious of Australian couple Bernie and
Claire, Lizzie elects to gather DNA evidence to prove or disprove her suspicion;
she forces Claire to confess to her husband Bernie that Lola, their daughter,
is Rosie. Claire and Bernie’s baby girl perished in a hospital fire; Claire
kidnapped Rosie, raising her as her and Bernie’s own daughter.
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of
reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive. Noomi Rapace (“The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) stars as a woman on the edge of this intense
psychological thriller. Having suffered a tragic loss years earlier. Lizzie (Rapace)
is trying to rebuild her life. Suddenly she becomes obsessed with a neighbor’s daughter,
believing the girl to be her own child. As Lizzie’s shocking threatening acts
grow increasingly dangerous, they lead to an explosive confrontation with the
girl’s defensive mother (Yvonne Strahovski, “The Handmaid’s Tale”). As the grief
of losing a child takes a toll on Lizzie (Noomi Rapace), she becomes increasingly
mentally unstable. When she meets a married couple whose daughter, Lola (Annika
Whiteley), bears a striking resemblance to her deceased child, her life starts
to fall apart. Obsession takes a hold of her and she does everything in her power
to spend time with the child she firmly believes is her own. As the tension
between Lizzie and the couple escalates, heavily guarded secrets start to unravel.
This 2019 adaption of the 2008 French film is directed by Kim Farrant.
💎💎
MARK OF AN ANGEL💎💎-
Mark of An Angel (L’Empreinte de I’ange) is a 2008 French film directed by Safy
Nebbou. It is retitled Angel of Mine for its 2009 English-language DVD release.
In a hospital Elsa Valentin gives birth to a daughter, but the baby reportedly
dies in a fire. Seven years later she is divorcing her husband and they fight
over who gets custody over their 12-year-old son Thomas. When Elsa collects her
son from a party, she sees the 7-year-old girl Lola, who she thinks is her daughter.
First, Elsa keeps this to herself, but she uses every opportunity to see Lola
and keep in contact with her. Elsa begins by approaching Claire, the mother, by
feigning interest in buying Claire’s house, which is on sale, so that she can
inspect the house and thus see Lola. She later encounters Claire and Lola when
they go ice skating, where Elsa and Lola skate together and wind up falling. At
Lola’s ballet recital, Elsa stands on the side of the stage behind the curtains
to watch her perform. Lola does not mind, as she feels as though Elsa supports
her more than Claire does. Claire confronts Elsa with her stalking behavior.
Elsa reveals to Claire that she believes Lola is her daughter, though Claire
refutes it. When Claire refuses Elsa’s request for a DNA test, Elsa sneaks into
the house to obtain a strand of Lola’s hair. She is caught by Claire and loses
the hair. When Claire tells her husband, Bernard, about the incident, he suggests
that they go through with the DNA test as it will prove to Elsa that Lola is
not her daughter. Claire is forced to reveal the truth to Elsa and Bernard: Seven
years ago, her own daughter died in a fire from smoke inhalation. At the hospital,
she heard another baby crying and saw Elsa lying on the floor. Believing that
Elsa was dead, she took the baby and pretended it was Lola while her own dead
child was left in place as Elsa’s baby. Claire and Bernard agree that Lola
should be returned to Elsa. Reunited, Elsa and Lola go for a walk together;
though surprised with the decision, the girl does not appear to mind.
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression, in the midst of
a divorce from her husband of twelve years, develops an obsession with a seven-year-old
girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas.
Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the
girl’s family, by helping a friendship develop between Thomas and the girl’s
brother Jeremy, so that in turn Elsa can befriend the girl’s mother Claire. She
uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession, telling her employer
and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off and
watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she
is going out with a friend so they will babysit so Elsa can even go as far as
hiding in the bushes outside of Lola’s house and watching her at night. At
first Claire doesn’t suspect anything, but gradually notices that Elsa is
paying too much attention to Lola and confronts Elsa. Elsa in turn claims that
she knows that Lola is her long presumed-dead daughter and somehow Claire has
stolen her.
💎💎ALISON’S
BIRTHDAY💎💎-
Alison’s Birthday is a 1981 Australian horror film written and directed by Ian Coughlan
and produced by the Australian Film Commission, Fontana Films and the Seven
Network. It stars Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal and Vincent
Ball. The story starts in sequence with 16-year-old Alison Findlay (Samuel) and
her two friends playing a seemingly innocent Ouija board game. Upon contacting
a spirit, who is later revealed to be Alison’s dead father (she never knew her
actual parents), the girls discover that Alison is in danger. The spirit then possesses
one of the girls and warns her not to return home for her 19th
birthday. The girl is immediately killed after a bookcase collapses onto her.
Less than three years later, Alison and her boyfriend Pete (Brown) return to
her homeplace to celebrate her 19th birthday with her Uncle Dean
(Bluthal) and Aunt Jenny (Brooke), who raised her after her parents died in a
car crash when she was just a newborn baby. Her homecoming is not quite what she
expected as she makes a strange discovery in their backwoods and has disturbing
nightmares. Even stranger is her Grandmother Thorn, whom she meets for the
first time. Her relatives soon take a disliking to Pete and attempt to prevent
him from seeing Alison. However, he is persistent and simply will not stop
coming to see their niece. In a desperate attempt to keep Alison away from him,
they regularly drug her and she becomes “ill”. In order to get Pete to believe
them, they have a false doctor (Ball) come over and pretend to diagnose her. He
prescribes that Alison stay home and avoid leaving. Later that night, Pete
breaks into their house and tries to rescue her. However, as they are leaving, the
doctor and her Uncle Dean subdue and drug the both of them. As a side effect to
the drug, they are bale able to convince Alison into lying and informing the
police that Pete – as a pestering, frightening ex-boyfriend – will not leave
her alone. He is then arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and breaking-and-entering.
Yet, the next morning he is released on bail. After researching several
newspaper clippings and briefly studying Celtic occult, he determines that her aunt
and uncle (along with the doctor and other relatives) plan to forcibly
sacrifice Alison for a demonic female spirit called “Mirna”. Mirna’s soul is manifested
in Grandmother Thorn’s body. As Ms. Thorn is aging quickly and Alison is in her
youth, they plan to switch bodies between the two. It is revealed that this
ritual has been practiced for over 200 years. When it is time for Alison’s
birthday party, Pete desperately tries to save Alison. But upon arrival, he
discovers that he is too late and that Mirna has possessed Alison. Mirna shoots
Pete, killing him instantly. When Alison wakes up, she realizes what has
transpired and the film ends with her screaming. A young girl is subjected to a
reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old
crone. A young girl is puzzled by a sequence of strange events which occur
during the days leading up to her 19th birthday. Slowly and with
growing horror, she becomes aware of the celebrations which her “relatives”
have planned for her.
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