Visitors (2003)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Richard Franklin

Writer:

Everett De Roche (written by)

Release Date:

27 November 2003 (Australia)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Fear runs deep.

Plot:

The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.

Plot Keywords:

Sloop | Hallucination | Cat | Fire | Sailing

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Radha Mitchell	...	Georgia Perry
Susannah York	...	Carolyn Perry
Ray Barrett	...	Bill Perry
Dominic Purcell	...	Luke (as Domenic Purcell)
Tottie Goldsmith	...	Casey
Che Timmins	...	Kai
Christopher Kirby	...	Rob (as Chris Kirby)
Jan Friedl	...	Bev (as Jan Freidl)
Soula Alexander
Roberta Connelly	...	Barbie
Michelle McClatchy	...	Barbie
Diana Greentree	...	Julie
Bridgette Burton
Donni Frizzell	...	Stowaway (as Donni Frizzel)
Phil Ceberano	...	Pirate Captain

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and language.

Runtime:

Germany:100 min (Fantasy Fim Fest) | Canada:90 min (Ontario)

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | USA:R | Canada:14A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Company:

Bayside Pictures

Soundtrack:

Sweet Georgia Brown

OK thriller

Not so much a horror flick as a psychological thriller, as a young woman begins hallucinating on a long solo sea voyage. She starts to see (and communicate with) her dead mother, her soon-to-be-deceased-and-legless father (with his legs grown back), a bunch of Malaysian pirates and even some oversized spiders that appear to be right out of LOST IN SPACE. Danger, Will Robinson! Or in this case, Wilhemina Robinson! Oh, and she her cat talk to each other -- mentally, of course. The cat sounds a little like the cat from SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH. A tad far-fetched, and stretched to fill out a theatrical running time that it maybe didn't deserve, VISITORS will certainly appeal to anyone who has ever made a solo sojurn of any length and isolation. Similar to DEADCALM in an odd sort of way. Radha "Pitch Black" Mitchell gives a bravura performance as the lonely lass with the classy ass -- it doesn't hurt that she spends most of the flick in bra and panties or a very tiny bikini. She has one absolutely hysterical scene where she mocks her sponsor, a cosmetics company that forces her to change the name of her vessel to the company's name. Lots of flashbacks and at times her hallucinations result in an awful lot of people crowding aboard her tiny yacht. So the cast is considerably larger than one might expect for what is essentially a Robinson Crusoe-type of tale.