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On St Valentine's Day 1900, three schoolgirls and a teacher from an exclusive English-style boarding school go missing at the mysterious Hanging Rock in central Victoria. One of the girls is found alive a week later, but the others are never seen again. As morale within the school begins to disintegrate, the headmistress's increasingly incoherent anger is turned towards one student, leading to tragic consequences. Although the police suspect Michael Fitzhubert, a young English aristocrat, and his manservant Albert, who were in the area at the time the girls disappeared, the mystery is never solved. As Paul Byrnes (Australian Screen) notes, the suggested scenarios range from the 'banal and explicable (a crime of passion) to deeply mystical (a crime of nature).'
[Source: Australian Screen]Notes
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This film is included in Australian Screen's collection 'Horror in Australian Cinema: http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/picnic-hanging-rock/ (Sighted: 6/7/2012)
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 May 2022;'From a film made in Adelaide for less than $10,000 to gory and haunting classics, here are some flicks that will keep you up at night'
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The Isolation at the Heart of Australian Horror
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— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2020;'Australian horror films have always had a unique fascination with the continent’s landscape. Though the genre has evolved from the Ozploitation era into more complex territory, it remains moulded by the terra nullius myth and a colonial sense of disconnection from the land. '
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 8 March 2019;
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
2014
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— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , March no. 70 2014;
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Script Bare
2004
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Between the Rock and a Dark Place
2005
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— Appears in: The Age , 14 February 2005; (p. 4) - y No Picnic : An Autobiography Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1995 Z1224962 1995 single work autobiography
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Hanging Rock, desafiante misterio
2006
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— Appears in: Hontanar , March no. 84 2006; (p. 2-3) -
Going on a Cinematic Picnic
2007
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 October 2007; (p. 8) Film producer Pat Lovell had a key role in the Australian film revival of the 1970s.
Awards
- 1979 Nominated Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films — Saturn Award - Best Writing
- Mount Macedon, Gisborne - Woodend area, Sunbury - Kyneton area, Melbourne, Victoria,
- Gisborne - Woodend area, Sunbury - Kyneton area, Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1900