Snapshot (1979)

Director:

Simon Wincer

Writers:

Everett De Roche (written by)
Chris de Roche (written by)

Release Date:

October 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

They Thought It Was Over But The Real Horror Began... The Day After Halloween.

Plot:

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out...

Plot Keywords:

Hairdresser | Murder | Jealousy | Car Crash | Beach

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Chantal Contouri	...	Madeline
Robert Bruning	...	Elmer
Sigrid Thornton	...	Angela
Hugh Keays-Byrne	...	Linsey
Denise Drysdale	...	Lily
Vincent Gil	...	Daryl
Jon Sidney	...	Mr. Pluckett
Jacqui Gordon	...	Becky
Julia Blake	...	Mrs. Bailey
Peter Stratford	...	Roger
Christine Amor	...	Paula
Lulu Pinkus	...	Wendy
Stewart Faichney	...	Peter
Chris Milne	...	Book Marker
Bob Brown	...	Captain Rock

Also Known As:

Day After Halloween
One More Minute (USA)
The Day Before Halloween (USA)
The Night After Halloween (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

92 min | 101 min (DVD)

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Company:

Australian Film Commission, The

Trivia:

The film was marketed in the United States as "The Day After Halloween" to capitalize on the success of Halloween (1978), even though this film had nothing to do with that series and doesn't even feature Halloween as a theme.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

Soundtrack:

Angela

Snapshot?

Hey now, Snapshot is a much better title for this than "The Night After Halloween" (as the box says) and "The Day After Halloween" (as the opening title of the video says), because this has diddly-squat to do with Halloween, not even a pumpkin in evidence....of course, this is made in Australia and I have no idea if they even have pumpkins there. This is more like some kind of psychological horror type of flick, about a young hairdresser that dreams of getting away from her mother, her "boyfriend" (who drives a Mr. Whippy truck), and her dull life. Somehow she stumbles into modeling and with one topless picture she becomes somewhat of a hot property. But her mom & her boyfriend & sister seem determined that she go nowhere. And this movie kind of goes nowhere, too. I'm sure it was only about an hour and a half but it seemed WAY longer, and while it comes full circle from the beginning to the end in showing how something came to pass, that's probably the most interesting part of the movie and everything in between is just filler. A thriller that isn't. And what of Magnum Video?

To read the box I'd wondered if I got the wrong movie in the case, but it does have Chantal Countouri's name on the box so it must be the same one. Hard to believe from their description it's the same film but misrepresenting movies so they sound better has always been around, I reckon. 4 out of 10 stars.