When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
Acting
Jason Barry's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably relatable
Writing
Dialogue that makes organ theft sound like a side hustle
Practical Effects
Gross-out effects that earn every wince
Director
Dean Murphy
Jason Barry
Gregor O'Reiley
Matt Day
Brad Forrest
Petra Yared
Sophie
Simon Bossell
Nigel Stamford-Street
Caroline Gillmer
Nurse Armstrong
Chris Haywood
George Roy Rogers
Marshall Napier
Professor Charles Lawrence
Rod Mullinar
Marcus Browning
Robert Morgan
Ted
Kenneth Radley
Pat
Anthony Morgan
Trigger
Pip Mushin
Dale
Reg Evans
Crawford
Rob Carlton
Freddie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Dean Murphy later pivoted to family films like 'Oddball,' making this his gloriously unhinged outlier.
The film captures peak late-'90s Australian indie cinema's obsession with working-class criminals and bodily horror comedy.
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