Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.
Acting
Sullivan Stapleton's Pommie is terrifyingly magnetic—chaos in human form.
Direction
Tony Ayres builds dread like nobody's business; suburban banality never looked so sinister.
Director
Tony Ayres
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cut Snake inverts the typical crime thriller: the violence isn't the twist, it's the repression. The real horror is Sparra's compartmentalized existence finally collapsing.
Director Tony Ayres, who is gay, specifically wanted to explore how queer desire was expressed through violence and criminality in Australia's hyper-masculine 1980s prison culture.
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