Her simple amusement fits in with the movie’s overall theme of finding pleasure through destruction. The answer is eventually revealed as two strangers, Chook and German ( Aaron Glenane, Aaron Pedersen ), show up to “help” them.Īs 16-year-old Emily ( Tiarnie Coupland ) intentionally burns a marshmallow over an open campfire, she tells her father she likes watching it melt. They hurry to reunite Ollie with his missing parents ( Julian Garner, Maya Stange), but they never stop to consider maybe he has no family to go back to. Sam’s concern proves to be right when she and Ian find an unconscious toddler named Ollie ( Liam Parkes, Riley Parkes ) nearby. Although they see a campsite set up nearby, the occupants are nowhere to be found. The story of Killing Ground is simple enough: Sam and Ian ( Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows ) head to a remote beach for New Year’s Eve. On the whole, Killing Ground taps into the rawness and force of classic grindhouse cinema a deal better than many of its contemporaries.

Katie Flaxman ’s editing is also crucial when balancing the fluctuations in time. Blunt storytelling and cinematography raise the believability factor as well, seeing as viewers are never pulled out of the movie due to an unmistakably cinematic effect or stylistic choice. Meanwhile, the dire situation in Killing Ground is consistently plausible. As fantastic as the likes of Rogue and Wolf Creek are, though, any semblance of reality they possess quickly fades once creative license takes precedence. Leaving the city for these rural parts has always been a bad idea in Ozploitation. Through heinous acts and immeasurable amounts of both physical and emotional pain, this movie reveals the dark parts of humanity - and not just the obvious ones.Īustralian filmmakers have a tendency to embellish the perils of living in their continent’s most outlying areas. Yet, the director’s debut is not the usual routine of yokels terrorizing urbanites. Damien Power ’s Killing Ground follows suit as he endangers campers in the days after Christmas. The Land Down Under has a menacing reputation to outsiders, and Australian cinema does very little to change that opinion either. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure - a scream is understood, always and everywhere.

Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States.

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