, “the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known”, gives a horror filmmaker plenty to work with. “It may have been an ambush predator or scavenger, and had enormous slicing cheek teeth, large stabbing incisor teeth … and a huge thumb claw that may have been used to disembowel its prey.”
Excellent. All debut director Sean Lahiff has to add is the bush, the music, the tension and the blood. This is an all-South Australian production – a shoestring horror of the old school, with a contemporary message about species preservation. Don’t let anyone say they don’t make movies like they used to.is a textbook 1970s-era monster mash-up.
Bailey tags along to shoot a documentary on their work. She’s a big-city girl – quite discomfited by the threat of the bush. Darren Gilshenan plays an older, more cynical park ranger. We know from his swagger that he will be one of the first to go.Shanti Gudgeon’s script follows the genre rules. First the trio of innocents must go beyond phone coverage, a modern prerequisite. Second, the fatal action must be delayed as long as possible, as a series of false alarm teasers jangle our nerves.
It would be churlish to ask how an animal that has been thought extinct for 46,000 years could still be out there. Ben, the mansplainer, gives the bones of a theory– the bushfires have driven many animals into areas they were never seen, much closer to humans. And their first reaction to finding something new is that it’s a fantastic discovery – its presence will help them to save this whole wilderness area.
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