Michael Ledo
Tasmania has been evacuated because of a possible viral outbreak. Sam (Coy Jandreau) is still on the island. His brother Bryan (Jason Trost) at the insistence of their sister Molly (Tallay Wickham) goes there to find him. The island has been taken over by ghosts and there are specific rules for survival which have been written down in a notebook called "How to Save Us." The ghost attack by smell. The ashes of dead people can mask the smell. The ghost are attracted by electricity. Graveyards appear to be safe havens. Don't go out at night. Lock all the doors. Beware of the wind. They can be seen with infrared.If you freeze frame the book as they page through it, you can get all the rules. There are broadcasts on the radio (106.9 FM) that are the ghosts talking as well as old broadcasts. And there is something strange...some of the broadcasts are personal for Bryan.The film moves slow. We see Sam covered with ashes walking along the island covered in ashes being tracked by his brother covered in ashes. They are sometimes irritated by ghosts. This is a low budget Australian production which was basically a two man play. Things pick up at the end where most of the budget was spent.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
grey_dog
I must admit, I don't know whether to hate anyone who had something to do with the film more than I hate myself for suffering through to the end when I could have hit fast forward. The movie follows a customary bad, boring move pattern: tidbit to keep you interested, 15 minutes of utter boredom. A couple of brothers (one of whom lost an eye, even though it does not play into the plot) wandering through a Tasmania that is quarantined in a way that does not stop people from entering or leaving, and playing a game of tag. We learn clever "rules" about the electric, infrared, ghosts like "they can't see you if you burn corpses and spread the ashes on your face or clothes," and "since they are electric they cannot be created or destroyed." Then we build up to the climactic finish where everything is explained...what, what? It isn't explained? But I thought it had something to do with child abuse...or viruses...or pathways from another dimension...or...forget it. And the movie.
jake7264
Seeing 6.3 rating of this movie, I just couldn't resist wasting 2min. for typing this review and about 15min of fast forwarding this masterpiece. The movie is about 2 dudes that do a lot of walking. Sometimes they seat. On occasion they fish and build camp fires. Very often they listen to really crappy music on a small mono transistor radio. Aha, almost forgot... From time to time there is a lot of wind and a very blurry figure shows up in the background. Presumably a ghost or an alien. On a plus side, the producers bought themselves a tripod. Most of the shots are steady. OK. I said it. That's it. Good luck not putting a bear bottle though your plasma... I would love to thank the other reviewers in person.
mollymillions
This movies story isn't based in science so its definitely fantasy not science fiction. The movie essentially tells the story of a family that suffered from an abusive father played out using a fantasy metaphor.The acting, cinematography and production are fine for a no budget movie. The special effects are minimal and most aren't too cheesy. I found the story uninteresting and had some really dumb mechanics. If the movie had been described as a fantasy I probably wouldn't have minded so much but still wouldn't have scored it higher.A generous two out of five from me. (How is it that 329 people consider this to be that theoretical best movie ever made and gave it a 10/10, you really have to ignore the ratings on this site, or at least look at the graph and discount all the fanboys, that give a movie a ten, and all the haters, that give a movie a one, and work out the average from the remaining votes but unfortunately this doesn't work with this movie as there is a second group of fanboys that gave the movie eights instead of tens).
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