Long Weekend

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Long Weekend

Most of the people who visit IMDb will have some childhood memories about a movie they saw ones on television. When you'r young, most of the time you only remember the images. At the age of 35 I certainly remember The Long Weekend. Maybe it was my age... but in my memory it was spooky and had a very surprising and sudden ending. I always wondered what the title of the movie was. Thanks to the internet I know it was this one. I recently bought the DVD and watched it again. A little bit disappointing.. but I am glad I watched it again. Rob The Netherlands

It's "Deliverance" meets "Blair Witch" meets "When Bunyips Attack!" (err...or don't attack!) in this expertly filmed bizarre Australian chiller. Peter and Marcia are a young couple going through some unexplained turmoil. They decide to take a holiday on the beach in an isolated woodsy area. They go about, generally Making a Scene, and have about as little respect for their surroundings as they seem to have for each other. The lack of communication between the two and a little bit of enviro-karma leads them to a nightmare holiday that they never anticipated. "Long Weekend" is one of those movies I wasn't sure what to make of when it finished, but was haunted by it in retrospect and inspired to view multiple times. It is loaded with symbolic imagery and subtle hints of the supernatural that truly get under your skin. It gets bonus points for featuring a beached "bunyip" as one of many ominous antagonists! Creeeepy!