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10/10
“A very nice slice of Australia set psychosis”
– Perry Norton / Film Threat

★★★★½
“Deliciously bold”
– Jennie Kermode / Eye For Film

★★★★
“Wild, roiling, hallucinogenic vibe”
– Xan Brooks / The Guardian

★★★★
“A highly original piece that works on its own increasingly crazed terms”
– Jonathan Romney / Financial Times

★★★★
“A surreal, somewhat psychedelic riff on Hitchcockian suspense from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who has specialised in such material (2019’s Vivarium, 2022’s Nocebo), and in turn [Nicolas] Cage seems to be channelling something closer to Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, or Michael Douglas in Falling Down: an ordinary but obsessive man, pushed to his limits. —
There are echoes of British classics like Straw Dogs, Eden Lake, Bait, or Edward and Tubbs from The League Of Gentlemen: a story about a local beach for local people. Cage’s character comes up against the least chill group of surfers this side of Point Break: obnoxious, wetsuited bullies, quick to violence, and hostile to outsiders. —
This is a feverishly good thriller: surreal and strange and sticky.”
– John Nugent / Empire Magazine