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After kicking off Australian horror month with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (hear), Jenn and I’ve turned our consideration to a crocodile-based creature function. However relatively than do Rogue, one other movie by the identical Aussie director, we’re spreading the like to filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich and their 2007 movie Black Water.

The movie is predicated on a real-life incident from 2003, when 22-year-old Brett Mann was swept away in a flooded river within the Northern Territory. His two mates, Ashley McGough and Shaun Blowers, pursued him, however when McGough noticed a crocodile within the water, the pair climbed a tree to security. Sadly, Mann was killed, and his physique was carried away by the creature.

The nightmare for his mates continued when the crocodile returned, forcing them to spend the night time within the tree. It’s a harrowing story that was became not one, however two 2007 creature options: McLean’s $30M movie Rogue and Traucki & Nerlich’s $1M low funds movie.

In Black Water, Lee (Maeve Dermody) and her older sister Grace (Diana Glenn), together with Grace’s boyfriend Adam (Andy Rodoreda), take an impromptu fishing journey whereas on trip. When their boat is capsized in a abandoned mangrove swamp and their information Jim (Ben Oxenbould) is killed, the trio is pressured to hunt refuge in a tree and plan their escape.

However with out the flexibility to speak with the surface world and a predatory crocodile circling under, what hope do the survivors have of escape?

Episode 38: Black Water (2007)

Climb that tree as a result of we’re headed into croc-infested waters with Traucki and Nerlich’s 2007 creature function, Black Water. It’s a low funds affair, however shot in such a savvy manner that Jenn practically loses it.

Plus: modifications to Brett Mann’s actual life story, comparisons to Greg McLean’s Rogue, crocs vs alligators (play the Jenn ingesting sport!), and the neatest $5K Joe has seen on display screen.

Subsequent week: Jenn and I deal with Justin Kurzel’s darkish crime story Snowtown earlier than ending Australian horror month with Ben Younger’s kidnapping movie Hounds of Love (C/W for each: rape and torture).

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