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Wake in Fright

1971, Movie, 1h 49min

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

Country: Australia,United Kingdom,United States

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Reviews

Critic Roger Ebert

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It's not dated. It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. It comes billed as a horror film and contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Kim Newman

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A vivid Australian nightmare...

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marc Savlov

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...an unflinching portrayal of modern man's moral disintegration in the face of the collective mob, and his ensuing culpability in the ever-widening ripples of despair that dissolution engenders.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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"Wake in Fright" is a disturbing and thought-provoking film that explores the darker side of human nature. It tells the story of John Grant, a young schoolteacher who becomes stranded in a remote mining town and descends into a nightmarish world of drinking, gambling, and violence. against the backdrop od an unforgiving desert landscape. As John's journey becomes increasingly disastrous , he begins to question his own values and beliefs until finally confronting the darkest aspects of his own nature. Shot in stunning widescreen and featuring powerful performances from its cast, "Wake in Fright" is both a bleak critique of toxic masculinity and a haunting portrayal of the human condition.

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Wake in Fright was released in theaters on February 20, 1972.