Synopsis
A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.
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Cast
- Aaron PedersenScotty 'German' Shepard
- Aaron GlenaneTodd 'Chook' Fowler
- Harriet DyerSamantha Shaw
- Ian MeadowsIan Smith
- Maya StangeMargaret Voss
- Tiarnie CouplandEm Baker
- Julian GarnerRob Baker
- Stephen HunterConstable Chris Armstrong
- Mitzi RuhlmannVicki
- Tara Jade BorgNurse
- 83
The Playlist
It’s a chilling, assured debut for writer/director Power, packed with promise and a startlingly mundane sort of violence which is all the more shocking for its realism. - 81
Paste Magazine
It’s a really well-made genre movie, the product of a smart, obviously skilled filmmaker with a good sense of economy. - 80
We Got This Covered
What Backcountry did for campfire creature attacks Killing Ground does for murderous bushmen in the same setting. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Killing Ground is an effective indie creeper that unnerves the audience with its all-too-realistic violence. - 70
Village Voice
What the film doesn’t do, much to its credit, is make the killers into charismatically “cool” villains, à la Wolf Creek‘s Mick Taylor. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is a blunt, brutally effective survival tale distinguished by the parallel suspense tracks of its non-chronological structure. - 67
The A.V. Club
Killing Ground comes down to what you want to experience in a horror movie. Granted, all this elaborately constructed savagery is upsetting, so the film succeeds on that level. But without suspense to propel it forward, and without a compelling backstory to deepen the intrigue, upset is all we’ve got. - 63
Movie Nation
Lean and relentless, patient and pitiless, “Killing Ground” is the sort of thriller that gives horror movies a good name.