ON THIS DAY IN HORROR - June 28th
"100 BLOODY ACRES" released in 2013
Watch the 100 Bloody Acres trailer below!
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| Lindsay and Reg (Angus Simpson and Damon Herriman) discover the "secret" formula to organic fertilizer! |
Sophie (Anna McGahan), James (Oliver Ackland) and Wes (Jamie Kristian) are on their way to a music festival when their car breaks down by the side of the road. "Help" comes in the form of the strange Reg Morgan (Herriman), who picks them up in his delivery truck and takes them back to the fertiliser plant he runs with his even stranger brother Lindsay (Simpson). Along the way James and Wes discover a dead body hidden in the back of the truck - Reg having recovered the dead body earlier from a fatal car crash. Before they can act however, Reg tricks the group into going into the barn, locking them in and suggests to Lindsay that they put the three tourists in the meat grinder for their new fertilizer. After all, the brothers had done it before with a church choir group that had also died in a nearby car accident! When matters are complicated with the appearance of a snooping policeman Sgt Burke (John Jarratt) and their crazy elderly neighbor Nancy (Chrissie Page), Reg starts to having second thoughts about their plan; especially when he starts to develop a twisted romance with Sophie. But Lindsay isn't going to be dissuaded quite so easily!
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| Top: John Jarratt as Sgt Burke; Above: Anna McGahan and Oliver Ackland (Sophie and James) aren't too keen to be turned into fertilizer! |
Directed and written by brothers Cameron and Colin Cairns, the original sciprt for 100 Bloody Acres won in the Horror-Thriller category for scriptwriting at the 2010 Slamdance Writing Competition. Partnering with producer Julie Ryan, the film was financed by Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, with filming beginning in January 2012. Stars Angus Simpson and Damon Herriman are no strangers to appearing in horror films, with Simpson having been in Darkness Falls and the Insidious movies, and Herriman co-starring in the 2005 remake House of Wax (ironically as a Roadkill Clean-up Driver).
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| Top: Writer/Directors Colin and Cameron Cairns; Above: On the set of "100 Bloody Acres" |
100 Bloody Acres premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2012, before being picked up by Hopscotch Films for release in the US to overwhelming positive reviews. Matt Zoller Seitz of rogerebert.com called it "the best low-budget horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead, and one of the most assured first features in ages", and Megan Lehmann of The Hollywood Reporter described it as an "off-the-wall Australian splatter-comedy" with "lively performances" and "a shrewdly structured screenplay". The Cairns' brothers next horror follow up will be Scare Campaign, due for release in November 2016. And if their debut 100 Bloody Acres is any indication, Scare Campaign will certainly be a movie to see!
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