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Primal

2010 · 80 min

A grimy, tense survival horror that traps you in the outback with friends turning into monsters, leaving you uneasy and claustrophobic.

Directed by: Josh Reed
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel

Tagline: Evil Lies Within
Overview: Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

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Directed by: Josh Reed
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
betrayal
fate
violence
Places: wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	6
Horror	8
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	8
Darkness	8
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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