• Year : 2009
• Country : Australia
• Director : Steven Kastrissios
• Running Time : 110m
• Starring : Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy, Brad McMurray, Jack Henry

If you liked..

• Straw Dogs
• Paul Schrader's film Hardcore
• Tough gritty thrillers

Why the fuck can't we make small independent films like this in New Zealand? Why is every digital film made here about boring relationships or shot in two rooms? If you aspire to make films on a low budget in New Zealand then get your asses along and see what's achievable.

A raw and relentless low-fi thriller that trades star power and big budget superficiality for gritty realism and ferocious performances. This indie joins the pantheon of brutal revenge pics like Straw Dogs and Last House on the Left, films that refused to bow to commercial pressures by santising the ugly reality of their grueling subject matter. Right from its jaw-dropping opening, the film sets up the thrust of its narrative, a father has found out his runaway daughter has died of an overdose and he wants some answers.

Finding out she was drugged up and abused in some filthy homemade porno before her death, his rage becomes white hot and his sole focus becomes a mission to rid every scumbag involved. Things become complicated when an innocent female hitchiker unexpectedly comes along for his one-way trip to hellish retribution. The gifted young director Steven Kastrissios has created a hybrid road movie that careens from thriller to balls-out horror. Warning, not for the squeamish.