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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Zoe Gameau | ... | Anja (as Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) |
| Krew Boylan | ... | Mel | |
| Lindsay Farris | ... | Chad | |
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Rebekah Foord | ... | Kris |
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Damien Freeleagus | ... | Warren |
| Wil Traval | ... | Dace | |
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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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Dace: She's eating him!
Chad: She needs help.
Dace: She's fucking eating him.
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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
Chad: She's sick.Dace: She's eating him!
Chad: She needs help.
Dace: She's fucking eating him.
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All Indigenous artworks depicted in this motion picture are non-tribal in origin and are not related to any known Aboriginal myths or stories. See more »Soundtracks
ShapelessMusic 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 was quite entertained with this little horror flick and it doesn't disappoint in the gore department - it is unabashed and unflinching, and far more vivid than any of the usual fair. It rivals the Oz horrors such as Wolf Creek.
The tale is about six young people researching ancient cave paintings in the outback of Australia. A mysterious illness creeps upon one of the young women, stranding the entire party as they fight for survival against the nightmarish force.
Not bad special effects for a low budget film and it keeps up a steady pace of excitement. It's an entertaining 90 minutes despite the last quarter. The ending...well... is full of cheesy, over the top, blatant, symbolism.