A group of friends travel into the Australian wilds to view ancient cave paintings but soon find a horrible sickness gripping one of their own, which leaves them with nothing in their mind but a primal blood lust.
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Zoë Gameau | ... | Anja (as Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) |
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Rebekah Foord | ... | Kris |
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Damien Freeleagus | ... | Warren |
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Mark Saunders | ... | Painter (as Alfred Coolwell) |
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Walangari Karntawarra Jakamarra | ... | Monster (as Walangari Karntawarra) |
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Stephen Shanahan | ... | Settler |
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Ch'aska Cuba de Reed | ... | Settler's Daughter |
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Santiago Cuba de Reed | ... | Settler's Son |
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Anja and five friends join anthropology student Dace on a journey to study a remote ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish bleeding and confused she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel's lover and friends realize they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape one of them starts to regress posing a hideous choice: kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study. Written by Deeww
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Country:
AustraliaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
23 September 2010 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Primale See more »Filming Locations:
Heathcote Scout Training Centre, Heathcote, New South Wales, Australia See more »Company Credits
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Music by Eliot Fish (as E. Fish), Rob Gibson (as R. Gibson), Nick Kennedy (as N. Kennedy) & David Trumpmanis (as D. Trumpmanis)
Lyrics by Eliot Fish (as E. Fish)
Performed by Todd Sparrow
From the album "Modern Western" (Nonlinear Records/Inertia)
©2008 Nonlinear Records & Todd Sparrow
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Josh Reed made the 12,000 year time-lapse sequence at the beginning of the film by individually photoshopping almost 300 frames. If you go through frame by frame you can see Josh buried to his neck in one frame towards the end, and his daughter, Ch'aska, peeking out from behind a tree in another frame. See more »Goofs
When Chad and Anja are talking at the campfire, a mic appears at the top edge of the picture. See more »Quotes
Warren: Quarter of a billion alpha males in this world, and we get the dog-shit one!See more »
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No animals were harmed in the production of this motion picture (but many of the crew were attacked by leeches). See more »Soundtracks
Terrible ThingsMusic by Eliot Fish (as E. Fish), Rob Gibson (as R. Gibson), Nick Kennedy (as N. Kennedy) & David Trumpmanis (as D. Trumpmanis)
Lyrics by Eliot Fish (as E. Fish)
Performed by Todd Sparrow
From the album "Modern Western" (Nonlinear Records/Inertia)
©2008 Nonlinear Records & Todd Sparrow
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I mostly hate those so-called 'slasher flicks' which feature a group of witless, narcissistic and dim-witted teenagers (or vapid 20 somethings) who go out into the woods and are picked off one by one by either a madman seeking vengeance or some restless supernatural entity. This one pretty much follows the formula except it's a rather good example of the genre. The acting isn't that bad and the pacing is really good. The campers all have distinct characters. Once you accept the premise that some kind of supernatural virus is on the loose in an isolated part the Outback which turns people into carnivorous predators you can watch the group try to work together to survive. Sometimes they get hysterical, and sometimes they do really stupid things but sometimes they actually make intelligent moves. In any case I was entertained.