The Dreaming

The Dreaming (1988)

Are they dreams or nightmares...Nightmares or premonitions?

When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.

Date of release
1988-05-13
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror, Fantasy
Director
Mario Andreacchio

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Dreaming is a 1988 Australian horror film directed by Mario Andreacchio and starring Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, and Gary Sweet.

Production

The movie was originally meant to be directed by Craig Lahiff but he dropped out before filming, and was replaced by Mario Andreacchio.

The film was made on Kangaroo Island and features shots of many of the island's local landmarks, such as Seal Bay and Admiral's Arch. Kangaroo Island has a genuine history of being visited by rough whaling men who had often kidnapped aboriginal women from Tasmania, The Coorong and other places on Australia's southernmost coastline.

There is an H. P. Lovecraft related in-joke in the film. As Penny Cook's character drives to Kangaroo Island towards the end of the movie in search of her father, her car passes a roadsign which reads "Innsmouth 2 km".

Funds were raised through Antony I. Ginnane's FGH company and the South Australian Film Corporation. The film was pre-sold to US distributor Goldfarb for $1.32 million but Goldfarb encountered financial difficulties and IFM sought other distributors.

The director later said that: "[It] was originally a script that was tackling, quite strongly, the issue of the past treatment of aborigines, the white-black conflict. Unfortunately, there was a time when the script was changed right in front of me and I was subject to other people saying, "No, you can't make that film, you've got to make this film".

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