Primal (2010)

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.

Director:

Josh Reed

Writers:

Nigel Christensen (story), Josh Reed (story)

Stars:

Zoë Gameau, Krew Boylan, Lindsay Farris

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Zoë Gameau	...	Anja (as Zoe Tuckwell-Smith)
Krew Boylan	...	Mel
Lindsay Farris	...	Chad
Rebekah Foord	...	Kris
Damien Freeleagus	...	Warren
Wil Traval	...	Dace
Mark Saunders	...	Painter (as Alfred Coolwell)
Walangari Karntawarra Jakamarra	...	Monster (as Walangari Karntawarra)
Stephen Shanahan	...	Settler
Ch'aska Cuba de Reed	...	Settler's Daughter
Santiago Cuba de Reed	...	Settler's Son

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

aboriginal art | rabbit | claustrophobia | friend | killer animal | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Lux Interior, of The Cramps, died a month before Primal started shooting. Director Josh Reed and costume designer Emily Schulz made a "RIP LUX" tee shirt which Warren wears throughout the film in his honor.

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Goofs

When Chad and Anja are talking at the campfire, a mic appears at the top edge of the picture.

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Quotes

Chad: She's sick.
Dace: She's eating him!
Chad: She needs help.
Dace: She's fucking eating him.

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Crazy Credits

All Indigenous artworks depicted in this motion picture are non-tribal in origin and are not related to any known Aboriginal myths or stories.

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Soundtracks

Terrible Things
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

User Reviews

Pretty good Australian horror film!!...

I managed to watch this film on DVD last week and i found it to be a pretty good horror film actually. The story is about a girl called Anja and her five friends who join with this other student called Dace who happens to study anthropology. They decide to go on a journey to study a ancient type of rock painting. But soon after one of their friends called Mel wants to go swimming in this lake as it is nighttime, soon after getting out of the lake Mel finds herself covered in leaches she starts screaming for the others to try and get them off of her body. Eventually they manage to get her back to their tents and is given a bottle of water to drink. But suddenly she begins to bleed very badly. Soon after she begins to physically turn into to a vicious predatory look. So Mels lover and friends begin to realise that they are going to be the prey that she wants to attack, so she starts to begin to hunt them down. I found it to be a very gory film, but i enjoyed watching it very much 5/10

Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 September 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Primale

Filming Locations:

Heathcote Scout Training Centre, Heathcote, New South Wales, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Primal Films, AV Pictures, Known Associates

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1