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'A married couple take a camping trip to a remote beach to heal their savagely wounded relationship, but prove as destructive and lethal to the world around them as they are to themselves. Mother Nature has a dark side' (Source: Screen Australia. Sighted: 1/6/2012).
Notes
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The film is a modernised version of the 1978 film, by the same script-writer (Everett De Roche). Nods to the original film include naming a pub the Eggleston Hotel, after the director of the original film (who died in 2002).
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The trailer for this film is available to view on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9l3eTOyFw (Sighted: 1/6/2012)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Related Works
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form
y
Long Weekend
( dir. Colin Eggleston
)
Australia
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Dugong Films
,
1978
Z1792355
1978
single work
film/TV
horror
'On a long weekend camping trip to a lonely beach, Peter and Marcia confront the despair of their marriage, as nature takes revenge on them' (National Film and Sound Archive blurb).
Works about this Work
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Karvan Signs in for Another Long Weekend
2007
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— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2007; (p. 8)
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Karvan Signs in for Another Long Weekend
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2007; (p. 8)
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