NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 8 - Wake In Fright (1971) & Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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CRIKEY! This week we venture down under to discuss two creepy, shocking, Australian masterpieces! Jamie Graham joins Mike to discuss WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) and PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975).
Content warning: Wake in Fright contains depictions of animal cruelty
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| 0:00.0 | The The The 1970s saw the beginning of the Australian new wave, a new boom in Australian cinema, characterized by its vitality, its love of open spaces, its use of the stark, harsh, bright Australian landscape, and its propensity for langorous sexuality and bursts of sudden extreme violence. |
| 0:49.1 | 1971 saw one of the most powerful movies in The Australian New Wave, which was in fact made by a Canadian |
| 0:56.1 | director. |
| 0:57.1 | Ted Kotcheff's wake in fright about a British man stuck in the Australian Outback with |
| 1:02.1 | a bunch of locals felt like it was creating a new language of film, something visceral, sweaty, masculine and uniquely Australian. A few years later Australian director Peter Weir |
| 1:16.4 | shot an adaptation of a Joan Lindsay novel called Picnic at Hanging Rock |
| 1:21.5 | about a group of school girls going missing in the Australian Outback. |
| 1:25.8 | The film had the same stark brutal sun-drenched visuals as wake in fright, but rather than |
| 1:32.0 | that sweaty masculinity, there was a kind of stifling femininity |
| 1:36.6 | here. |
| 1:37.6 | Both films demonstrate the sublime beauty and danger of the natural world and Australian landscape, and both movies remain two of the most |
| 1:46.8 | important films in the history of Australian horror. What we see and what we seem, as a dream, a dream within a dream. |
| 2:01.5 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror films and we discuss |
| 2:06.2 | two Australian New Wave classics, Wake in Fright and Picnic at Hanging Rock. and picnic at hanging rock. |
| 2:13.0 | G'da and welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 2:18.0 | My name is Mike Munter and as ever I am your host. |
| 2:25.2 | In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. |
| 2:32.0 | We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror and this is part 8. In this week's episode we are venturing down under and we are exploring the brutal, sweaty, beautiful |
| 2:47.6 | world of Australian horror. |
| 2:50.8 | And as that intro suggested, we're going to be talking about Wake in Fright from 1971 and |
| 2:55.7 | picnic at hanging rock from 1975. |
| 2:59.6 | I will say a quick sort of trigger warning about wake in fright. |
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