Réalisation:
Damien PowerScénario:
Damien PowerPhotographie:
Simon ChapmanActeurs·trices:
Aaron Glenane, Aaron Pedersen, Tiarnie Coupland, Stephen Hunter, Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Maya Stange, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Tara Jade Borg (plus)Résumés(1)
an (Ian Meadows) and Samantha (Harriet Dyer) head to a national park, hoping that nature will give them space for some quiet time together. They arrive at an isolated campsite to find an SUV and a tent – no sign of the occupants. As night falls and the campers fail to return, Ian and Sam grow increasingly uneasy. The discovery of a distressed child wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying chain of events that test the young couple to breaking point. (Vertigo Releasing)
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Critiques (4)
Harmonie familiale avec une fille adolescente et un petit bébé face à des rednecks australiens. Un drame cruel d'abord, sur deux lignes temporelles qui s'intensifient parallèlement jusqu'à devenir une tragédie plus intense, suivie d'une lutte pour la survie qui se déroule de manière imprévisible. C'est un film soigneusement conçu du point de vue d montage, minimalise d'un point de vue audiovisuel. Avec le froid et le calme par lesquels le film commence, le frisson est d'autant plus intense. Les scènes d'exploitation nous sont épargnées, mais notre souffle est coupé par une autre scène, comme cela ne nous était pas arrivé depuis longtemps.
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Killing Ground could have easily been a little more gritty, but I still think that what we were presented with was quite a lot. The villains are exactly as nasty as you want them to be, and the fate of the individual characters is not pretty, but that was to be expected. Like I said, there's nothing particularly original about the film, but in this case it doesn't matter because you get what you want and it's good.
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Solid forest survival hixploitation that, instead of brutality, relies on the work with the characters. After a relatively lengthy introduction, you really get to know the heroes (and to a lesser extent, the villains), whose behaviour, especially in the end, nicely deviates from the common horror clichés, which puts Killing Ground a a rung higher than your average B-movie production. On the other hand, it is nothing to write home about. 7/10
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A very decent survival film by Australian filmmakers. At first, I was apprehensive, fearing it would be an Australian variation on American wannabe horror films about rednecks, but I was surprised several times over. The characters were unexpectedly fleshed out, the film wasn't built around graphic violence, the two timelines were handled very well, and I was really pleased with the ending. I just wonder if Sam had her "swiss army knife" with her in the last scene. I hope she did...
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