Four teenagers; Gary (Leon Ford), Brad (Chalie Garber), Emily (Lenka Kripac) and Tracey (Alex Vaughan) travel to a desert paradisiacal beach and spend the weekend together. When they arrive, they meet the older Zippo (Steve Le Marquand), and experience a sense of Déjà vu with weird events, feeling that they had previously been in that place. That Saturday, they start to realize that they are actually trapped in a nightmare.
Cinematography
Bleach-bypassed beach horror that makes paradise look infected.
Sound
That score refuses to let you trust anything you see.
Acting
Steve Le Marquand's Zippo: unhinged uncle energy, deeply wrong.
Director
Martin Murphy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenka Kripac later became a platinum-selling Australian pop singer; this remains her only film role.
Made during Australia's brief 'desert noir' boom—think Wolf Creek's weirder, poorer cousin with time-slip ambitions.
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