Saw this at Sydney Film Fest, then got to project it at Chauvel. A classic! Gave the Aussie Film Industry a kick in the bum after Michael Powell did such a fine job in ‘67. Then it kept on until when, what the mid-nineties? Poof! And then, with a big budget flop high card and a finiancial crisis maybe we see the light again?
Aside from that, apparently Aussie audiences got mad because they’d never seen themselves portrayed in this fashion before. It’s gets pretty dark, but its got some really horror elements in there, although sometimes its piss funny, but I forgive it because it was at the beginning of a change of pace.