73%User score 73 percent
Wake in Fright
1971 · Drama · Thriller
User Score
100 votes
For one teacher and nine children, the lesson of the day is kill or be killed.
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
Recommendations based on this film
drystyx
April 2, 2023
One might view this as the polar opposite of "Lord of the Flies", although both give very credible depictions of kids in dire circumstances. The difference here is that there is a teacher with the kids to guide them. Also, there is no plane crash. Instead, the kids are kidnapped from a very remote school in a very remote place in Australia. There are a lot of very interesting aspects to this film. First of all, the p…
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