Wake in Fright at Triskel Arts Centre, 26 June. While travelling through the Australian Outback a schoolteacher loses all his money in a bad bet, leaving him stranded in a remote town, where he begins a descent into violence, drunkenness and madness.
Raw and brutal in its depiction of Outback country drinking culture in the 1970s, WAKE IN FRIGHT is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema from director Ted Kotcheff (FIRST BLOOD), that has been acclaimed as one of Australia's most legendary, unique and horrifying contributions to cinema history.
John Grant, a bored school teacher working in the remote outback, stops overnight in a frontier mining town on his way back to Sydney for the Christmas holidays. After he loses all his savings in a bad gambling bet, Grant finds himself marooned and swept up in the vortex of a succession of hard-drinking, hard-living and crude men led by Doc (Donald Pleasence) who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent as they are.
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