I remember watching this Australian horror film many years ago, and being impressed, so was pleased to have a chance to see it again via talkingpicturestv. For me, it is the unsettling small details; the dead dugong that seems to advance, unseen, up the beach, the fellow campers who are there, but then not there, that makes this film so effective. What I had forgotten from the first time was how boorish and unlikeable Peter and Marcia are. Yes, I get it that the moral of the plot is nature's revenge on their uncaring attitude towards the natural environment but can't help feeling that the film would have been even better had they been portrayed as slightly more sympathetic characters, whose fate we would care more about.
Review of Long Weekend
