Today I watched the Australian horror-comedy 100 Bloody Acres. It was released back in 2012 and was the debut feature for directing duo Cameron and Colin Cairnes.
The Morgan Brothers’ fertilizer has become popular over the last little while. Most likely due to their secret ingredient: car crash victims found by the side of the road. When three hitchhikers catch a ride with younger brother Reg, he decides it might be time to move up from roadkill to fresher ingredients.
Damon Herriman (Justified, The Lone Ranger) is great as Reg, whose bumbling incompetence nicely contrasts with his older brother’s penchant for remorseless violence. Angus Sampson (Mad Max: Fury Road, Insidious) plays Lindsay Morgan, a brooding and tough-as-nails psycho willing to go to any length to see his business succeed. Lindsay never questions his own immoral behaviour, but Reg’s uncertainty about turning living people into fertilizer grows when he falls for Sophie (Anna McGahan, House Husbands, The Spirit of the Game), one of the hitchhikers he picked up earlier.
The First Ingredient is Human
Dry humour and moments of over-the-top gore keep the bloodflow high and the pacing quick. A few visual gags thrown in to the mix makes 100 Bloody Acres a film worth adding to your Netflix queue this October. Highly recommended.
Availability: Netflix US
RSS