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A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark.
All Critics (51) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
There is queasy undercurrent of sentimental kindness and indulgence beneath the violence. Mar 6, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
There is queasy undercurrent of sentimental kindness and indulgence beneath the violence.
Peter Bradshaw
Wake in Fright is essential viewing for anyone interested in the roots of male violence. Nov 15, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Wake in Fright is essential viewing for anyone interested in the roots of male violence.
Tirdad Derakhshani
A Conradian parable of a man succumbing to the wild, the film is remarkable for its raw, pointed dithe suggests, and you'll find the beast concealed behind the mask of propriety. Nov 1, 2012 | Full Review…
A Conradian parable of a man succumbing to the wild, the film is remarkable for its raw, pointed dithe suggests, and you'll find the beast concealed behind the mask of propriety.
Drew Hunt
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. Nov 1, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing.
Roger Ebert
Several decades later, it still chills. Oct 25, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4
Several decades later, it still chills.
John Hartl
"Wake in Fright" is true horror. Oct 19, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
"Wake in Fright" is true horror.
Robert Abele
John Grant is absolutely note-perfect as the stiff-upper-lipped Englishman stranded in an environment that he couldn't be any further removed from. Apr 12, 2018 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
John Grant is absolutely note-perfect as the stiff-upper-lipped Englishman stranded in an environment that he couldn't be any further removed from.
Andrew Pollard
Wake In Fright gets beneath Australia's skin and stares into a dark heart that was hidden beneath the ochre dust and boozy bonhomie. One of the greatest Aussie films of all time. Mar 6, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Wake In Fright gets beneath Australia's skin and stares into a dark heart that was hidden beneath the ochre dust and boozy bonhomie. One of the greatest Aussie films of all time.
Matt Neal
Wake in Fright deserves to occupy a place next to Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness, all of them stories that force us to observe the veil, so thin, that separates civilization from barbarism. [Full review in Spanish] Jan 11, 2018 | Full Review…
Wake in Fright deserves to occupy a place next to Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness, all of them stories that force us to observe the veil, so thin, that separates civilization from barbarism. [Full review in Spanish]
Daniel Krauze
So, it's a good film and an important one, but it's no walk in the park despite a fair number of funny lines Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
So, it's a good film and an important one, but it's no walk in the park despite a fair number of funny lines
Kathy Fennessy
"Wake In Fright" is a masterpiece of energized social satire. Apr 8, 2017 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
"Wake In Fright" is a masterpiece of energized social satire.
Cole Smithey
This movie gets under your skin. May 3, 2015
This movie gets under your skin.
Sean Burns
An educated teacher stuck in an backward Aussie Outback town learns about beer drinking, gambling, beer drinking, hunting kangaroos, beer drinking and "d'yawanna anofer beer, mate, there's a good lad." An Australian-style Deliverance, no banjo, no river, but plenty of "squeal like a pig, boy!" Also, be prepared for the wholesale killing of about 20 kangaroos ... despite it being integral to the story.
Super Reviewer
A shocking, brutal and jaw dropping portrait of Australia, insanity, social horror and the battles of human soul. Fresh.
Pretty grin viewing. Also a bit of animal cruelty which makes it hard to stomach. Not a bad 70's drama, but once was more than enough for me.
this was a blast
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