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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 17 Oct 2012

Wake in Fright works both as an early instance of Ozploitation cinema and as a harsh critique of Australian colonialism and the absurdity of…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Oct 2012

Kotcheff, working from a novel adapted by Modesty Blaise screenwriter Evan Jones, ratchets up the sick humor and ghastly ribaldry to nail-biting…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Oct 2012

Wake in Fright is a monster movie, and the monster is us…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 10 Oct 2012

Orchestrates landscape, music, demonic faces, and lots of blood, sweat, and vomit into a stark bacchanalia of men having fun…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 09 Oct 2012

In some ways Wake in Fright is like an Australian Deliverance, except this is one man's journey and he participates in the debauchery and savagery…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 03 Oct 2012

A legendary and controversial Aussie classic, although it's long been available only in poor-quality video releases…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 01 Oct 2012

Kotcheff's beware-the-backwoods thriller takes an unholy pleasure in watching Bond, an actor who always looks as if he's just bitten into a…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

A road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for LYTRules.com (112) on 30 Aug 2012

It's the sort of movie they don't make any more, and ONLY made in the '70s…

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