Acolytes (2008)
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Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Jon Hewitt
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Release Date: 25 March 2009 (France)
Country: Australia
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Synopsis
James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They're going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest - the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl - 17 year old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It's suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they bring shovels to exhume what will probably be rotting garbage or someone's dead pet - or so they tell themselves. They find the ghostly white body of a woman. She's a tourist - a Canadian backpacker. The "trench" is a grave. The "adult male" is her killer. And they've got him by the balls. Responding to Mark's intimations James floats an idea to seek out "the sicko". It'll be a bit of fun. He's confident the guy lives in their suburb; Mark saw his car parked on a trail; Mark knows what the car looks like; Mark knows what he looks like. It can be done. Chasely goes along with it. No surprise. James has done all her thinking since they started a relationship. Mark agrees because he's got a thing for Chasely and he'd like to appear a bit more like her boyfriend, but mostly Mark agrees because he carries a culpable secret. They find the car and the killer 24 hours later. He's got the same house as everyone else and a kid and a wife. Jeez, it's anticlimactic. Then, in Chasely's bedroom, as the girl cleans up the latest damage done to Mark's face by an animal called Gary Parker, James floats another idea; What if the killer were contacted and told the name of a guy that they'd like to see dropped in a hole of his own? He's their secret, isn't he? They kind of own him, don't they? If he thinks they might let him go he'd do anything, wouldn't he? What could go wrong? James, Mark and Chasley are about to cross a line of no return as serial killer Ian Wright lures the vulnerable teenagers into his violent world.
Review
I saw what I believe to be the best Australian film of the year so far,
Jon Hewitt's Acolytes.
Acolytes is a stylish thriller with a killer premise. Get this…two
bullied and molested teens discover a local serial killer in their
suburb AND then set about blackmailing him to kill the bully who
molested them. Hewitt has picked a top notch cast including excellent
new comers Sebastian Gregory, Josua Payne and Hanna Mangan Lawrence to
play the teens. Add to that three, yes, thats right three great
psycho's! Lead by Joel Edgerton in an outstanding performance of serial
killer du jour, Belinda McClory his deranged spouse and Michael Dorman
as the teen raping bully, with swastika tattoos. Once you add these
teens and these menacing adults, all hell breaks loose… Hewitt has
crafted a balls to the wall serial thriller thats damn original and
accomplished. You can see the influence of Larry Clark and David
Lynch's Twin Peaks but Hewitt makes it all his own, in a Qld suburban
back water, always ringing with the drones of emptiness. The script by
Shayne Armstong, Shane Krouse and Hewitt is tight.
If marketed correctly this film could be a break out hit with teens.
The next Wolf Creek? It could well be. It makes all the right moves.
The teens are real ala Larry Clark. They don't suck and have an
attached PC agenda, they are non communicative, good looking and hip.
The killers are dark with real menace. Joel Edgerton steals his scenes
as the mild mannered local Ted Bundy, who sports a butterfly on his 4WD
spare ala John Fowles The Collector. Dorman's petrol head rapist pours
on the menace that tops Suburban Mayhem and provides a creepy thug who
you can't wait to see buy the farm.
The film is fast paced, tough and brutal. Not only that, it displays a
confidence and directorial mastery from Hewitt that is surely to win
him an IF or AFI nomination, if not award! Its nuanced and poetic mise
en scene, brilliant sound design, excellent cinematography and tight
structure mark it as clearly one of the best directed Oz features I
have seen so far this year.
The film leaves you shaken, thinking and unsettled. Its a truly great
edition to the return to genre going on in Australian cinema at
present. It will surely garner the interest of Hollywood. Oh, and did I
mention it got into Toronto? What other Oz feature films can say that
much? The world should get ready for a new auteur, Jon Hewitt.
Nudity overview
Celebrity Name: Belinda McClory
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Running time:00:00:15
Clip download link: Media:BelindaMcLory-Acolytes.avi
File Size: 2.7 MB
Size(height x width): 640x360
Have audio: Yes
Bit rate: 1481 kb/s
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