Lovers Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer) are going on a camping trip to a remote lake and wonder why the tent next to theirs remains empty all day and night - until they take a peek inside and find it rather on the trashed side. They soon also find a toddler (Liam Parkes, Riley Parkes) wandering the woods completely on its own and figure he might belong to whoever's tent it is - but find out they can't make it to town as a tire of their car has been slashed. Thank God then a local hunter, Chook (Aaron Glenane) stops by, and suggests to go looking for the boy's family with them - whom they soon find, all shot dead. But what's more worrying is that they were actually tortured, raped and killed by Chook and his hunting buddy German (Aaron Pederson) - and they are not very keen on having the word get out, so obviously, Ian and Sam get a place on top of their hunting list ...

Now ok, so Killing Ground doesn't break any new ground when it comes to plot - but what might be lacking in originality is made up in its clever narrative structure that tells two story threads which happen days apart from one another in a parallel way, with events in one thread directly affecting those in the other, and these causalities are only revealed when about a third into the movie - which totally adds to the tension of the movie rater than being irritating. Now add to that a very atmospheric directorial effort making perfect use of the beautiful scenery, and plenty of great suspense scenes, and you've got yourself a pretty exciting movie!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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