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Primal

Primal

Evil Lies Within

20105.21h 20m

Overview

Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Directed by Josh Reed
Written by Nigel Christensen, Josh Reed
Produced by Rob Gibson
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Top Cast

Zoe Tuckwell-Smith

Zoe Tuckwell-Smith

Anja

Krew Boylan

Krew Boylan

Mel

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Will Travel

Dace

D

Damien Freeleagus

Warren

R

Rebekah Foord

Kris

Lindsay Farris

Lindsay Farris

Chad

Themes & Keywords

australiacave paintingtransformationleechblackoutblack magicmachetepregnant womanturns into animalteethprehistoric mansicknesspanic attacktentaclessex in a tent

About Primal

Primal is a thriller, horror film released in 2010 exploring themes of australia, cave painting, transformation, leech, blackout, black magic. Directed by Josh Reed, it stars Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel. Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

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