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'Nature turns nasty in this underrated and, until recently, forgotten masterpiece of terror. Everett de Roche's remarkable two-character script pits a self-absorbed and relentlessly bickering city couple on a relationship-repairing beach retreat against an increasingly hostile, almost supernatural environment: Birds swoop, the usually docile kangaroos slash and claw, and the reappearance of a dugong shot by Hargreaves's character as target practice is a harbinger of a fate which, to de Roche's credit, is never explained. Dark, suspenseful, ambiguous, and utterly enthralling.' Andrew Leavold