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By Nic H (12) on 10 Jan 2013

OVERRATED! Let me sum it up... a teacher goes to the outback, drinks with locals, kills kangaroos, nearly kills himself, then goes home…

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By Rodney S (239) on 05 Jan 2013

Crazy film about a teacher called John Grant who is trying to get to Sydney to be back with his woman but ends up getting majorly fucked up…

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By Nicholas B (317) on 30 Dec 2012

The real Australia??? We didn't think so at the time. Its more surreal than 'real' but its powerful stuff…

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By Nicki M (953) on 24 Dec 2012

Pretty grin viewing. Also a bit of animal cruelty which makes it hard to stomach. Not a bad 70's drama, but once was more than enough for me…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 13 Dec 2012

A movie that shows us plenty of unsettling stuff but also knows that what viewers imagine is much more disturbing than what any movie can show…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 13 Dec 2012

A movie that shows us plenty of unsettling stuff but also knows that what viewers imagine is much more disturbing than what any movie can show…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 15 Nov 2012

Many reissues claim the mantle of lost masterpiece, but Wake in Fright is the genuine article…

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By Todd G (322) on 02 Nov 2012

A genesis of drunken violence. In over his head, a teaching in the Outback suffers the hospitality of border town alcoholics and macho men…

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By Gordon B (705) on 02 Nov 2012

This sunbaked Australian thriller about a man trapped in the outback is one of the best movies about the rituals of manhood and the subtle…

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By Isaac W (70) on 02 Nov 2012

Really good outback film, I just don't like roo hunting part…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for CinemaDope (253) on 30 Oct 2012

This outrageously overlooked masterpiece is a wake-up call to film scholars who will now have to rethink what came first ‒ this film or Peckinpah's…

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By Molly W (36) on 27 Oct 2012

In the tradition of Walkabout, this is a great film of stepping on the slippery slope and crashing down to damnation…

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By Ubaid D (9) on 27 Oct 2012

In the tradition of Walkabout, this is a great film of stepping on the slippery slope and crashing down to damnation…

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By George H (280) on 27 Oct 2012

Unlike anything I've ever seen. This film is a total mind f***k and many of the scenes will resinate with me for a very long time…

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By Keith M (1,080) on 20 Oct 2012

I suppose this is a good specimen of the Australian new wave and if you are a professional critic then you are obliged to give this 5 stars…

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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 Michael H (3,299) on 13 Oct 2012

A schoolteacher wins at gambling, loses it all, goes on a week-long bender with insane freaks in the middle of nowhere Australia and barely…

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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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