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Turner</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Ann Turner</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Chris Neal</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Timmothy White & Gordon Glenn</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Bryce Menzer</B></div> <div> <B>Hobyah Effects by Nik Dorning</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Celia Carmichael.....Rebecca Smart</B></div> <div> <B>Alice Tanner............Victoria Longley</B></div> <div> <B>Ray Carmichael......Nicholas Eadie (</B><I><B>Return to Snowy River, Part II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Pat Carmichael.......May Anne Fahey</B></div> <div> <B>Granny....................Margaret Ricketts</B></div> <div> <B>Steve Tanner...........Alexander Hutchinson</B></div> <div> <B>Karl Tanner.............Adrian Mitchell</B></div> <div> <B>Meryl Tanner..........Callie Gray</B></div> <div> <B>Evan Tanner...........Martin Sharman </B></div> <div> <B>Heather Goldman..Claire Couttie</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Goldman..........Alex Menglet (</B><I><B>Georgia</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Stephanie Burke....Amelia Frid</B></div> <div> <B>Sgt. John Burke.....William Zappa</B></div> <div> <B>Soapy Burke..........Ron Keane</B></div> <div> <B>Debbie Burke.........Louise Nay</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: In Australian style, the pace is not brisk. Not bad production values. Although some will doubt that this is a horror movie, the slimy hands coming in the window during Celia's nightmares generate some chills. The rituals around the fire with the magic mask are decidedly horror movieish. The kinds of tensions that are built up during such scenes are clearly within the genre. A good job is done on Celia's imagination playing off of shadows on the wall in grandma's room. However, the action tends to wander. For one thing, too much time with a bunch of kids romping through the Australian countryside can be trying. It takes a while for the political struggles among the grownups to generate much conflict in the film, but the way it plays out in the relations among the children is pretty compelling. Also compelling is the obscene way father attacks communism and then sniffs about after Alice. The plague of communism and the plague of rabbits, is ok. A great many written documents are flashed on the screen for your perusal but these are too small and too brief to make much sense of them. We hope you've got a good pause button. After the deed is done, it's pretty nerve wracking. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: December 1957 When Celia says her last goodbye to Grandma, she begins to have dreams. A gooey hand reaches through the window. She calls to Gran but mother comes and shows her it's just a night animal. Or is it? A childhood story about the Hobyahs creeping through the mist and a dog barking at them guides Celia's imagination into dark and unexpected corners. Celia seems to be obsessed with getting a rabbit that her grandmother promised her, turning up her nose at a new bicycle. When a friend receives a rabbit she is pretty angry. Playing in the quarry, she thinks she sees Grandma, but the image disappears. The children find a macabre mask in the shed at the quarry, and it's agreed that the mask has secret powers. When Celia is left alone she is suddenly frightened by the sounds of the wood. Soon the children engage in a blood ritual, pricking fingers. Celia watches a public health short on the infestation of rabbits who are blinded by an engineered pesticide. Celia has started spending more time with the next door neighbors. She's picked up a nice shiner somewhere along the way. Celia's father takes a pile of grandmother's books concerned with communism and burns them. She cries on the shoulder of the communist sympathizing next door neighbor, Alice. Next thing you know Celia's father is hitting on said communist-sympathizing next door neighbor. Did he think that burning books discussing communism and chewing her out would attract her? Dad gives her the rabbit she wanted on the condition that she not play with the Tanners again. Celia agrees to no such thing but gets the rabbit anyway. The kids are soon attacked by some rock throwing kids yelling "Dirty reds!" After a rumble the police show up and break up the scuffle among the nine year olds. It appears parents have been talking in the earshot of the kids. That night, Celia dreams that Grandma is pawing at her window but when she goes to let her in, slimy paws grab at her. Dad's off hitting on Red Alice again and at the same time chastising her. Celia finds out that her father forced Mr. Tanner to resign. Celia dreams of slimy hands coming through the window again. Celia and the Tanners get a voodoo doll and, with the magic mask, stick pins in it. When Celia sees her uncle's face on the doll she screams and they run off to throw the dolls into her uncle's room. Celia gets herself a thrashing. More shorts of rabbits multiplying with mountains of rabbit bodies. When it turns out the Tanners are moving, another ritual starts up and this time the doll is thrown in the fire. The other kids break up the ritual and burn Celia's rabbit with a branding iron. Revenge is plotted for Sunday at church. The first communion dress is the worse for it. The Tanner's move out with one more blood ritual. Celia continues reading about the Hobyahs. The police man Uncle John finally gets his paws on the rabbit. Finally, permits are allowed for pet rabbits but Mergetroid and Celia's sister's rabbits have both died in the pen. Apparently someone has taken revenge on Celia. Celia and her sister prepare for battle. When Uncle John comes over, Celia thinks it's a Hobyah and since she's got a hunting rifle, that's not good for uncle. She and her sister try to make it seem like a robbery but soon mother suspects.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>