Home Alone meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but make it a depressed lynx.
Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.
Direction
Nathanson wrings dread from empty veldt and whispered footsteps
Cinematography
Wide, lonely landscapes that swallow the farmhouse whole
Sound
The lynx you never fully see — audio does the heavy lifting
Director
Alan Nathanson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sandra Prinsloo became a South African screen legend; this early role barely hints at her later stardom.
Shot during Apartheid, the film's racial dynamics (black workers, white landowners) reflect unexamined power structures of its era.
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