In case you’ve missed the memo, Australia has become something of a breeding ground for top quality and/or top revenue-driving horror films.
The ‘why’ of it all is yet to be firmly established – the main conjecture right now being that we’re not Hollywood, and are therefore capable of being a little more creatively creepy – but Observance director Joseph Sims-Dennett has a pretty good take on it that could be classified as ‘hot’.
“Australia broadcasts this laid-back easiness but it is really a very conservative country,” he said, unwittingly giving Cory Bernardi a spontaneous but sizeable semi. “Art takes off in those periods when you’re being stifled and oppressed. There is a sort of darkness that lurks somewhere.”
He then goes on to say that Sydney is fast becoming a nanny state “suffocated by draconian lockout laws and surveillance”, thereby providing the “darkness” that gives way to horror films / art.
SYDNEY: where you can’t get a bottle of wine after 10pm but can get the living shit scared out of you any day of the week.
Observance hits a few select cinemas on Sunday 3 April; watch the trailer here:
Source: BBC.
Photo: supplied.