In the events leading up to a lockdown that lasted for over a month, both inmates and guards at a privately run maximum security prison in the middle of the Australian outback find themselves being pushed into an altercation with each other. Stars David Field, Mike Bishop, Chris DeRose, and Dave Mason. Directed and written in part by John Hillcoat. Music by Nick Cave, also credited as a writer and plays a secondary role in the film. 1988.
Great performances, bloodily violent, and a fairly thought-provoking and disturbing examination on the use of fear by the media and government to control the masses with a subtle hand. There's a ring of almost sci/fi through the use of its computer screen narration and sensationalist newscasts (I might just be mistaking actual 80s style as the 80s trying to predict the future), but by the time the tension builds to its crescendo, it all comes off as very plausible and terrifying. Nick Cave's music is sparsely used - most of Ghosts has no ambient music - and very creepy.
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