💎💎ALEXANDRA’S
PROJECT💎💎-Alexandra’s
Project is a 2003 Australian drama thriller written and directed by Rolf de
Heer and starring Gray Sweet and Helen Buday. Upon returning home from work on
his birthday, Steve (Gary Sweet), a middle-class husband and father of two,
finds the house dark and his family not home. He notices a chair, his television
set and a video tape obviously set out for his viewing. He turns the TV and VCR
on and begins to watch a tape made for him by his wife, Alexandra (Helen Buday).
The first clip shows his wife and children wishing him a happy birthday, but after
the kids leave the room, Alexandra begins a striptease and it appears to be
nothing more than a birthday gift. As it progresses, however, it becomes clear
that the tape is designed to humiliate and torture Steve for marital problems
that Alexandra has been stewing about for years. As part of her show, Alexandra
feigns breast cancer, has sex with their neighbor and tells Steve that neither
she nor their two children are ever coming home. A regular suburban family man
comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting
to be played… Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children,
beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on
his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs
missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him.
Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife
explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children
and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.
💎💎THE
SNOWTOWN MURDERS💎💎-
Based on true events, 16-year-old Jamie falls in with his mother’s new
boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship
that leads to a spree of torture and murder. Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his
mother, Elizabeth and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust
home in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses
crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an
escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation
arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his
aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie’s family, Elizabeth and her
boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known.
John moves from the role of Jamie’s protector to that of a mentor,
indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness
and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some
of John’s traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select
group of friends. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is
initially welcomed however as events occur around him, including the disappearance
of several people, Jamie begins to harbor deep suspicions about John and his motivations.
When the truth is finally revealed to Jamie his hopes of happiness are threatened
by both his loyalty for and fear of, his father-figure John Bunting, Australia’s
most notorious serial killer. This film is based on the horrific true story set
in South Australia in the 90s and is about Jamie and his half brothers who live
with their mother Elizabeth. Jamie is being molested by his half brother and a neighbor.
They are friends with John Bunting, a guy who doesn’t like fat people, druggies
or gay people and he doesn’t care if you know it. Jamie is easily lead on and John
takes him under his wing. Jamie soon realizes that John is not a nice guy, he
comes across nice when his mom and others are around but shows his true colors
when he’s with Jamie. Slowly but surely Jamie’s friends and family start disappearing
and then Jamie is put in a situation he can’t get out of. But is he as innocent
as he thinks?
In the poor Adelaide suburb of Salisbury North, 16-year-old
Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) lives with his distressed mother, Elizabeth Harvey
(Louise Harris) and his brothers – including Troy (Anthony Groves), who rapes
Jamie. One day, his mother’s boyfriend takes indecent photographs of the boys.
When the police are reluctant to intervene, Elizabeth is contacted by Barry
(Richard Green), a gay cross-dressing man who introduces her to John (Daniel
Henshall). John, who despises paedophiles and homosexuals, continually harasses
the boyfriend via means such as throwing kangaroo’s blood and body parts at his
house until he moves away. John begins to assume the role of Jamie’s father figure.
Barry tells John the names and addresses of paedophiles in the area and John
creates a wall with pictures and details about each, including notes saying
things like “I’m coming for you.”
💎💎WASTED
ON THE YOUNG💎💎-
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds
that revenge is just a computer click away. Wasted on the Young is a 2011 Australian
thriller film directed by Ben C. Lucas and starring Oliver Ackland, Adelaide
Clemens and Alex Russell. Shot by cinematographer Dan Freene, it tells the story
of a traumatic high school incident that sets off a fatal chain of events for two
brothers. The film was shot in 2009 at an ultra modern mansion in City Beach
and at Edith Cowan University’s Mount Lawley and Joondalup campuses. The film
received $750,000 in ScreenWest funding through its West Coast Visions
initiative, as well as funding from Screen Australia. Darren is a quiet, introverted
teenager who attends a prestigious high school along with his popular and
wealthy stepbrother Zack. A girl named Xandrie has a crush on him and decides
to attend one of Zack’s elaborate house parties to spend more time with him. At
the party, Xandrie meets Zack and he notices her interest in Darren. Xandrie
fails to meet up with Darren and is intercepted by Zack’s friends Karen and
Simone, who offer her a spiked drink. Xandrie is taken to the basement, where
she passes out and is left alone with Zack and his friends, Brook and Jonathan.
She wakes up at a beach and goes home after discovering she was raped. The next
morning, Darren discovers Xandrie’s phone in the basement and is unable to find
her at school. He meets up with Ella, Xandrie’s friend who was with her at the party,
but got separated from her and doesn’t know where she is.
Darren gets no answer from Zack and instead follows Jonathan. He
denies Darren an answer and is beaten up by him as a result. Darren tracks Xandrie’s
home address and visits her, but she doesn’t answer her door. Xandrie eventually
shows up at school and discovers her reputation is destroyed by false rumors
surrounding her disappearance. Karenn threatens her, saying how the majority are
more likely to believe their story than hers due to Zack’s wealth and reputation.
Darren decides to find out what really happened to her and hacks into Jonathan’s
laptop. He is sick to discover footage of Xandrie’s assault. At school, Darren
finds Xandrie and tries to help her, but she refuses and tells him she passed out
when it happened and has no concrete evidence. Zack pays Xandrie a visit and
warns her about divulging the truth, as it could affect their chances of graduating.
Xandrie and Darren soon reconcile, Brook convinces Zack that Darren knows the truth
and might discredit them both. Zack has Brook corner him before beating him up.
Bloodied, he is taken outside by Brook and Jonathan while Xandrie shows up with
a gun, contemplating about killing Zack. He tells her that shooting him won’t
change a thing – they will still believe his story more than hers. Despaired,
Xandrie shoots herself instead. To secure his reputation, Zack soon throws
another party. Filled with angst, Darren shows up at the party and makes Simone
feel guilty about Xandrie’s suicide and convinces her to drug Zack’s drink. Darren
also spreads the footage of Xandrie’s assault to everyone in the party through their
phones. Brook finds out about this and confronts Darren, who hits him in the
head with a bottle. The partygoers question Zack about the truth and he blames
it on Brook and Jonathan, who overhear himself outside. Soon, the drug in his
drink takes effect. He follows Darren (whom he sees as Xandrie) in the basement,
where he passes out. He wakes up bound in one of two seats before a device
Darren had engineered. Darren tells him that the partygoers will decide which
one of them should die via their phones, as they are seen on the televisions
around the house, placing a gun on the device, which will shoot one of them
depending on the votes. He sits beside Zack in one of the seats and the gun
later shoots. Darren is later shown swimming in a pool at some kind of facility.
Zack (Alex Russell) a member of the cool clique and Darren (Oliver Ackland), a
geeky kid are step brothers who occupy opposite ends of the school hierarchy.
Bullied by the cool kids, Darren finds himself forced to act when his tormentors
go too far by drugging and assaulting his best friend Xandrie (Adelaide Clemens).
After being left for dead in the middle of nowhere, Xandrie suddenly makes a surprise
return to school that sets off a chain reaction of events. What begins as the
devastation and implosion of Xandrie’s world soon threatens to trigger the
implosion of the whole social hierarchy as Zack tries to manipulate the facts of
that night and Darren sets off to disillusion the masses that put Zack on his elitist
pedestal in the first place.
💎💎WOLF
CREEK 2💎💎-
Wolf Creek 2 is a 2013 Australian horror film cowritten and directed by Greg
McLean. The film is a sequel to the 2005 film Wolf Creek and stars John Jarratt,
reprising his role as Mick Taylor. It was released on 30 August 2013 at the Venice
Film Festival, then released in Australia on 20 February 2014. In North Western
Australia, highway patrol officers Gary Bulmer and trainee Brian O’Connor are
parked by an outback highway and are desperate to meet a quota for speeding
tickets. Mick Taylor, a pig hunter, drives past going under the speed limit and
they pull him over, claiming he’s going over the speed limit. After belittling and
insulting Nick, the two officers give him a speeding ticket and an order to get
rid of his truck. In retaliation, Mick promptly uses his hunting rifle to
splatter O’Connor’s head as the officers drive away, causing the cruiser to
crash in a gully. Despite Bulmer’s desperate pleas, Mick breaks his leg, stabs
him in the back with a bowie knife and places the fatally wounded officer back
in the car before dousing it with petrol and setting it alight. Mick departs, leaving
Bulmer to die in the resulting explosion. A young German couple, Rutger (Phillipe
Klaus) and Katarina, hitchhike from Sydney to Wolf Creek Crater and camp nearby.
In the middle of the night, Mick is driving by and sees their tent in the distance.
He offers them a lift to a caravan park so they do not get charged for camping
in a national park. When Rutger insists on declining his offer, Mick loses his
temper and stabs Rutger in the neck. He then ties down Katarina and prepares to
rape her, but a wounded Rutger comes back and battles Mick. He is eventually
overpowered and decapitated. Mick then informs Katarina that they’ll be
spending “a fun couple of months together” before choking her until she falls unconscious.
She later wakes up to see Mick cutting up Rutger’s body to feed to his dogs. She
flees into the bush and Mick pursues her in his truck.
Paul Hammersmith (Ryan Corr), an English tourist, is driving along
the highway and stops for Katarina standing in the road. He picks her up, but
Mick relentlessly pursues them. He shoots at Paul, but accidentally kills Katarina
instead when Paul ducks under the shot, much to Paul’s horror and Mick’s
dismay. Paul then drives off, remorsefully leaving Katarina’s body in the sand
and covering it with just a sleeping bag at daybreak. He then reaches a
highway, but realizing he is off course and has low fuel, tries to flag down a
truck in the distance. He soon realizes that Mick is driving the truck, having
killed the original driver. After a long chase, Mick nudges Paul’s vehicle at a
cliff side, sending it rolling down into a valley, then sends the truck
hurtling down into Paul’s vehicle which explodes as he barely escapes. Paul
treks across the outback for hours looking for help (unaware that Mick is slowly
trailing him the entire time). Exhausted and dehydrated, Paul passes out near
an outback cottage and is given food and shelter by elderly coupe Jack and Lil.
They plan to take Paul to the nearest town after he has eaten but Mick finds the
house, steals one of Jack’s guns and shoots Jack and Lil dead. Paul then flees
again and Mick follows him on Jack’s horse. He catches Paul hiding in the
grassland and knocks him out. Paul wakes up in Mick’s dungeon, zip-tied to a
chair. Mick is furious at Paul for his role in Katarina’s death and prepares to
torture him, but Paul pacifies him with his “English wit” by narrating bar
jokes and leading Mick in drinking songs that he claims he learned at boarding
school. Mick’s torture for Paul consists of a ten-question quiz about Australian
culture and history, with a promise to free him if he answers five of them
correctly. However, if Paul gets a question wrong, he loses a finger. Paul
answers the first two questions and reveals that he is a history major. After
he gets the next question ‘wrong,’ Mick (incensed by Paul’s knowledge) grinds
off one of his fingers with a sander (the answer Paul provided was technically correct,
Mick just had a different interpretation of it). During the next question, Paul
tricks Mick into cutting his other hand free by deliberately answering
incorrectly (and losing another finger), then grabs a nearby hammer and clubs
Mick with it. He then flees through the tunnels, pursued by an injured Mick.
Paul finds several decayed corpses of Mick’s victims and a severely emaciated
woman (Jordan Cowan) woken by him begs to be freed. Eventually he finds an exit
but notices a sheet on the ground directly in front of it. Lifting it up, he
finds a Punji stick trap underneath and considers trying to jump over it. He
hears someone come and hides in a corner, assuming that it is Mick coming to
get him. When the person who approaches walks past the corner, Paul then knocks
the person into the trap with the claw hammer, killing them. But when he looks
down to see what he thinks is Mick’s corpse, he discovers it was just the woman
he encountered earlier. Immediately afterwards, Mick finds and subdues Paul.
After declaring himself “the winner” and lecturing how “It’s up to my kind to
wipe your kind out”, Mick head-butts him unconscious. When he wakes up, Paul
finds himself on a footpath in a small town far from Mick’s dungeon with no
sign of him, dressed only in his underpants and with wounds across his body. He
finds a note near him which reads “Loser”, and he soon discovered by the police.
A series of title cards reveal that despite reporting Mick to the police, Paul
was held as a suspect in various unsolved murderers in the Wolf Creek area.
During the investigation, he suffered a complete mental breakdown and was
deported back to the UK and placed in full-time care at Ashworth Hospital Merseyside.
The film ends in a manner similar to the previous, with Mick walking off into
the outback with his rifle.
The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting
tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig hunter Mick Taylor.
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