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The Dreaming

1988·Horror·1h 30m
7.0
When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
Directed by Mario Andreacchio

Cast

Arthur Dignam
Arthur Dignam
Professor Bernard Thornton
Penny Cook
Penny Cook
Cathy Thornton
Gary Sweet
Gary Sweet
Geoff
John Noble
John Noble
Dr. Richards
Patrick Frost
Patrick Frost
Dr. Graham
Hedley Cullen
Hedley Cullen
Drunk

Crew

Mario Andreacchio
Mario Andreacchio
Director
Rob George
Rob George
Writer
Mario Andreacchio
Mario Andreacchio
Writer
Antony I. Ginnane
Antony I. Ginnane
Executive Producer

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Koudelka
Koudelka
The Dreaming
Interesting setup, unsatisfying conclusion.
Interesting setup, unsatisfying conclusion.
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Jason Choi
Jason Choi
The Dreaming
Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge/31 Nights of Horror movie watch eighteen

#18. CAN YOU DIG IT?: Archeology turns up the darndest things…

“The Dreaming”, as is, seems pretty much a mid-to-low budget Australian Ozploitation thriller.  It starts off interesting (an archeologist digs up an Aboriginal Grave Site and has premonitions of the past on how the Aboriginals were killed, then fast forward to the present where a modern day group of Aborigines try to take back the artifacts, but one girl gets mysteriously injured and dies, and the doctor treating her has mysterious and violent dreams about killer whalers and Aborigines).   But what could have been an interesting take on how the sins of the past haunt the present, it kinda fizzles out of steam and becomes just a slasher (and a rather slow one at that) halfway through.
Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge/31 Nights of Horror movie watch eighteen

#18. CAN YOU DIG IT?: Archeology turns up the darndest things…

“The Dreaming”, as is, seems pretty much a mid-to-low budget Australian Ozploitation thriller.  It starts off interesting (an archeologist digs up an Aboriginal Grave Site and has premonitions of the past on how the Aboriginals were killed, then fast forward to the present where a modern day group of Aborigines try to take back the artifacts, but one girl gets mysteriously injured and dies, and the doctor treating her has mysterious and violent dreams about killer whalers and Aborigines).   But what could have been an interesting take on how the sins of the past haunt the present, it kinda fizzles out of steam and becomes just a slasher (and a rather slow one at that) halfway through.
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Maybe not the most effective horror but visually really enjoyable. I do not want to deal with the murderous past, thank you.
Maybe not the most effective horror but visually really enjoyable. I do not want to deal with the murderous past, thank you.
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