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'First envisioned by Ashwood almost a decade ago, The School tells the story of a successful doctor, Amy Payne (Megan Drury), who is wracked with guilt over being unable to cure her deathly ill young son. With the boy in a coma, Amy finds herself sucked into a kind of netherworld – the echo of an old school, in the real world long burned down, which is inhabited by the shades of lost children. There she must not only try to find her own child’s spirit, but must contend with the embodiments of her own fear, guilt, and shame.' (FilmInk)
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The Best Thing about the New Oz Horror Film The School Is Its Poster
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 December 2018; 'There’s something about the Australian context that lends itself to explorations of horror. As I have argued elsewhere, the combination of what historian Geoffrey Blainey famously described as the “tyranny of distance,” the barrenness of the Australian outback and landscape for European settlers, white Australia’s convict origins, and its guilt regarding the genocide of the Indigenous Australians, have all helped create a cultural milieu ripe for narratives of anxiety, despair, and terror.' (Introduction) -
On Set : The School
2017
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 August 2017;
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On Set : The School
2017
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The Best Thing about the New Oz Horror Film The School Is Its Poster
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 December 2018; 'There’s something about the Australian context that lends itself to explorations of horror. As I have argued elsewhere, the combination of what historian Geoffrey Blainey famously described as the “tyranny of distance,” the barrenness of the Australian outback and landscape for European settlers, white Australia’s convict origins, and its guilt regarding the genocide of the Indigenous Australians, have all helped create a cultural milieu ripe for narratives of anxiety, despair, and terror.' (Introduction)
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