Long Weekend

Long Weekend (1979)

Für ein Wochenende fahren Peter und Marcia an die australische Küste, fernab der Zivilisation - nur sie, das Meer, der weiße Strand und die Wildnis - ein Traum. Doch dieser wird sehr schnell zum Alptraum. Da es in ihrer Beziehung kriselt, verwandelt sich das ursprüngliche Paradies nach und nach zur leibhaftigen Hölle. Unheimliche Geräusche, dunkle Schatten im Meer und das bedrohliche Verhalten der Tiere steigert die innere Unruhe der beiden. Hysterisch beginnt Peter auf alles zu schießen, was sich bewegt. Marcia dreht durch und flüchtet mit dem Auto, um dem Wahnsinn zu entkommen, aber das undurchdringbare Dickicht gibt den Weg nicht frei. Verzweifelt versucht sie, zu Fuß weiterzukommen. Da fällt plötzlich ein Schuss...

Erscheinungsdatum
1979-03-29
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (203)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 35 Min.
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Regie
Colin Eggleston

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Budget: 425.000 AU$
  • Gedreht in: New South Wales
  • Auszeichnungen: 2 · Nominierungen: 0. Darunter: Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award; Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

Long Weekend is an Australian psychological thriller film shot in 1977 and first shown in 1978. The film was directed by Colin Eggleston and stars John Hargreaves and Briony Behets.

Production

The script was the first feature script written by Everett De Roche, an experienced Australian TV writer. He was inspired by a trip he took on an Easter weekend to an isolated beach in New South Wales:

I started LW as a way to avoid the TV-cop-show doldrums while still convincing myself I was "working". LW was a unique project because I began with no outline, no notes or research, very little idea as to where the story was going, and absolutely zero knowledge of screenplays. I simply started at page 1, scene 1, and made it up as I went. I had only a vague plan to write a kind of environmental horror story.

De Roche wrote the script in ten days. He showed it to Colin Eggleston, who had worked with him at Crawfords, and Eggleston decided to make the movie. Funds were obtained from Film Victoria and the Australian Film Commission.

Shooting took place in March–April 1977 in Melbourne and near Bega in south-east New South Wales. A second unit in Tasmania captured scenes with Tasmanian devils and tiger quolls. The ending was originally different according to De Roche:

I wrote an enormously complicated sequence for near the end where the animals give Peter a second chance. They want him to wise up, and he is at the point of doing so when he hears a truck in the distance. He dashes off to the highway, and the animals decide there is no hope. Poetically, they leave it to another man to kill him.

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