Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away
- Written by Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Umbrella Entertainment In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971).
More than in any other film of the period, Kotcheff managed to capture something of the unhinged, deranged quality of homosociality in the Australian outback in a hallucinatory,...





