A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood. Settling in well, they make friends with a nice family on one side and soon meet a more interesting family on the other side. But interesting soon becomes loud and loud soon becomes intolerable. When the intolerable becomes violent and the police are powerless, Max and Therese attempt to take matters into their own hands.
Acting
Gary Waddell's King is genuinely menacing and weirdly magnetic.
Direction
De Heer's controlled chaos makes suburbia feel claustrophobic.
Writing
Dialogue that captures the horror of polite people pushed too far.
Director
Rolf de Heer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Rolf de Heer shot this in just 18 days on a micro-budget, which explains the raw, suffocating intimacy.
The film satirizes Australia's 'tall poppy syndrome' and suburban pretension—King represents everything polite society tries to ignore.
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