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Defenceless: A Blood Symphony
BOXSET/APPROX. 98 MINS/2004/AUSTRALIA UNRATED
BOXSET/APPROX. 98 MINS/2004/AUSTRALIA UNRATED
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Elizabeth Peace (Sussanne Hausschmid, also the films Co Producer) is wrapped up in a beachside property development plan with three men.
However when it comes time to sign on the dotted line Elizabeth pulls out of the deal and won't sign.
This infuriates the three men, who go on a brutal blackmailing scheme to force Elizabeth to sign the papers. This starts off with one of the goons
bashing the living shit out of her husband before finally killing him, then taking photos of his lifeless body and dropping the snapshots off at
Elizabeth’s home with a nasty letter.
Elizabeth doesn’t give in though, and takes the letter & photos to the beach where the development is due to take place, buries them, and then
promptly passes out. A lone female, Julia (Erin Walsh), finds her laying on the grass, revives her and they then begin to have a love affair.
A few days latter Elizabeth receives a text message from Julia, telling her to meet her in a “special place”. Upon arriving there, Julia is nowhere to
be seen, but a DVD is sitting there with "have a nice day" written on it. Elizabeth takes this home, puts it in the player only to find out it is from the
same 3 development goons, who rape, torture and ultimately kill Julia on screen, again leaving another nasty note. But this time another package
turns up carrying Julia’s severed head!
A little further down the track again, Elizabeth is at the beach with her son. She goes for a walk by herself, when out of nowhere the development
goons jump in and brutally rape her, before throwing her body into the ocean to die, and mutilating her son.
Now is when the weird shit goes down, because after floating around the ocean for 9 months, Elizabeth’s body washes up on the shore. However
something is different about her. She has no memory, craves human flesh and is pretty much a member of the living dead (although in more of a
Jean Rollins Living Dead Girl kinda way, not like Romero’s dead).
Elizabeth befriends a young girl who practically lives at the beach to escape her abusive stepfather. A little later on he comes down to the beach
and strangles the little girl, which sends Elizabeth’s hunger for blood into overdrive. She promptly kills him and devours some of his guts. But this is
only the start of Elizabeth’s murderous rampage. As she starts to remember everything that happened to her in her past she goes after the
goons, torturing and mutilating them one by one in a very fucking brutal fashion!
The 3rd and final full length feature in the Savage Sinema From Down Under boxset, this is definitely the most arthouse of the bunch, but
arguably the most accomplished as well. It should be mentioned here that there is not one single word ushered throughout the whole film, and
any communication is done via body language, letters or text message. And for the most part this works quite well, although there are some spots
you wish someone would say something! Coming across almost like an 1 hour long montage, complete with a brooding score, this is a very unique
film that treads the fine line between Arthouse & Exploitation without crossing over the boundaries, however there are a few nasty surprises in
store, but I won't spoil them for you.
As with the other 2 films in the boxed set (Marauders & Sensitive New Age Killer) the extras consist of a rather lively commentary without too
many dead patches, a newly filmed featurette about the making of, talent bios & trailers.
Simply put the Savage Sinema From Down Under boxset should be in every cult and exploitation fans collection, you really can’t go wrong with
any of the films, considering they were all made on a budget of less than what I paid for my car, the films stand up quite well, with a distinctively
Aussie flavour.
However when it comes time to sign on the dotted line Elizabeth pulls out of the deal and won't sign.
This infuriates the three men, who go on a brutal blackmailing scheme to force Elizabeth to sign the papers. This starts off with one of the goons
bashing the living shit out of her husband before finally killing him, then taking photos of his lifeless body and dropping the snapshots off at
Elizabeth’s home with a nasty letter.
Elizabeth doesn’t give in though, and takes the letter & photos to the beach where the development is due to take place, buries them, and then
promptly passes out. A lone female, Julia (Erin Walsh), finds her laying on the grass, revives her and they then begin to have a love affair.
A few days latter Elizabeth receives a text message from Julia, telling her to meet her in a “special place”. Upon arriving there, Julia is nowhere to
be seen, but a DVD is sitting there with "have a nice day" written on it. Elizabeth takes this home, puts it in the player only to find out it is from the
same 3 development goons, who rape, torture and ultimately kill Julia on screen, again leaving another nasty note. But this time another package
turns up carrying Julia’s severed head!
A little further down the track again, Elizabeth is at the beach with her son. She goes for a walk by herself, when out of nowhere the development
goons jump in and brutally rape her, before throwing her body into the ocean to die, and mutilating her son.
Now is when the weird shit goes down, because after floating around the ocean for 9 months, Elizabeth’s body washes up on the shore. However
something is different about her. She has no memory, craves human flesh and is pretty much a member of the living dead (although in more of a
Jean Rollins Living Dead Girl kinda way, not like Romero’s dead).
Elizabeth befriends a young girl who practically lives at the beach to escape her abusive stepfather. A little later on he comes down to the beach
and strangles the little girl, which sends Elizabeth’s hunger for blood into overdrive. She promptly kills him and devours some of his guts. But this is
only the start of Elizabeth’s murderous rampage. As she starts to remember everything that happened to her in her past she goes after the
goons, torturing and mutilating them one by one in a very fucking brutal fashion!
The 3rd and final full length feature in the Savage Sinema From Down Under boxset, this is definitely the most arthouse of the bunch, but
arguably the most accomplished as well. It should be mentioned here that there is not one single word ushered throughout the whole film, and
any communication is done via body language, letters or text message. And for the most part this works quite well, although there are some spots
you wish someone would say something! Coming across almost like an 1 hour long montage, complete with a brooding score, this is a very unique
film that treads the fine line between Arthouse & Exploitation without crossing over the boundaries, however there are a few nasty surprises in
store, but I won't spoil them for you.
As with the other 2 films in the boxed set (Marauders & Sensitive New Age Killer) the extras consist of a rather lively commentary without too
many dead patches, a newly filmed featurette about the making of, talent bios & trailers.
Simply put the Savage Sinema From Down Under boxset should be in every cult and exploitation fans collection, you really can’t go wrong with
any of the films, considering they were all made on a budget of less than what I paid for my car, the films stand up quite well, with a distinctively
Aussie flavour.
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