WAKE IN FRIGHT - Music Box Of Horrors Screening!

Name: WAKE IN FRIGHT - Music Box Of Horrors Screening!
Start: 2025-10-05T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-05T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Music Box Theatre

Schedule

Sun Oct 05 2025 at 11:30 am to 01:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Music Box Theatre | Chicago, IL

Presented as part of MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS: DEAD AND LOVING IT, sponsored by Shudder
Visit our website for Full Schedule: https://musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-festivals/music-box-of-horrors-dead-and-loving-it
Set in a desolate corner of the Australian Outback, Ted Kotcheff’s bracing psychological thriller follows John Grant (Gary Bond), a schoolteacher who winds up stranded in a remote town called Bundanyabba while on his way to Sydney for a holiday. His stopover turns into a nightmarish descent into madness as he becomes enmeshed in the town’s aggressive, alcohol-fueled culture and uncomfortably familiar with some of its less savory inhabitants, including sinister, hard-drinking “Doc” Tydon (Donald Pleasence). With all his money gambled away, John spirals into a state of despair, and soon he begins to fall prey to his own worst instincts.
Unsparingly bleak in its beer-soaked, sweat-drenched depiction of rural Australian life, WAKE IN FRIGHT is a haunting and genuinely disturbing portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality. A commercial disappointment at the time of its release, the now-lauded film has slowly but surely amassed a reputation as a hugely influential high point in Australian cinema’s New Wave of the 1970s.