In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast.
Director:
Russell Mulcahy
Stars:
Gregory Harrison,
Arkie Whiteley,
Bill Kerr
In a totalitarian future where deviants are held in rehabilitation camps, a freedom fighter and a wrongly-accused prisoner form an alliance to survive their decadent oppressors' game of kill-or-be-killed - and turn the tide against them.
Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Stars:
Steve Railsback,
Olivia Hussey,
Michael Craig
Angela, a naive hairdresser, is kicked out of the house by her puritanical mother. At the behest of a model client, she gets her first modeling gig. While her future seems bright, she soon learns that everyone around her wants to use her.
Director:
Simon Wincer
Stars:
Chantal Contouri,
Robert Bruning,
Sigrid Thornton
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths, who are placated with new wave music, junk food, drugs, exploitation movies, and racism.
Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Stars:
Ned Manning,
Natalie McCurry,
Peter Whitford
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Director:
Ted Kotcheff
Stars:
Donald Pleasence,
Gary Bond,
Chips Rafferty
The Playboy Magazine that Peter looks at is from March, 1973. The cover photo is a montage of Mercy Rooney, the December, 1972 Playmate of the Month. See more »
Quotes
Marcia:
I told you it wasn't a shark.
Peter:
No. No it certainly isn't a shark.
Marcia:
Then what is it?
Peter:
A Bunyip.
Marcia:
A what?
Peter:
It's a Dugong. A Sea Cow. Apparently there used to be thousands of 'em all along the coast until they were killed off for oil.
Marcia:
It's ugly.
Peter:
Yeh. She's not very pretty out of the water, is she.
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Crazy Credits
The closing credits appear over a shot of the wilderness vegetation growing around the harpoon impaling Marcia. See more »
Alternate Versions
The UK Region 2 DVD, released in 2006, is slightly cut with one known cut when Peter (John Hargreaves) is hit by the truck at the very end. Some of the actual head collision is removed and after the end credits have rolled, some of the sound on black screen has been faded swiftly out. See more »
"Long Weekend" is a well-done, environmentally-conscious horror film from Down Under. The plot is rather simple, but makes a point: when you snooty urban dwellers go camping for the weekend, don't do anything to p**s off Mother Nature! Which is exactly what our two selfish, unappealing protagonists do; they also have a marriage that's on the rocks (gee, I wonder if they'll make it through the weekend alive? Any takers?). The acting is good (though the characters are hateful and stupid), and the emotional intensity is complemented by a very brooding atmosphere of impending horror (the night scenes will give you the willies) as Nature gears up for revenge.
6/10
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"Long Weekend" is a well-done, environmentally-conscious horror film from Down Under. The plot is rather simple, but makes a point: when you snooty urban dwellers go camping for the weekend, don't do anything to p**s off Mother Nature! Which is exactly what our two selfish, unappealing protagonists do; they also have a marriage that's on the rocks (gee, I wonder if they'll make it through the weekend alive? Any takers?). The acting is good (though the characters are hateful and stupid), and the emotional intensity is complemented by a very brooding atmosphere of impending horror (the night scenes will give you the willies) as Nature gears up for revenge.
6/10