Jack is straight off the plane. He has few friends and no money. In desperation, he accepts an apartment formerly housed by the main suspect in a serial murder case - John Ellroy. Plagued by insomnia, Jack broods in the apartment and wanders the inner-city streets of Melbourne. His loneliness leads him into a friendship with a teenage addict Janie, and into a bizarre obsession with Ellroy. Jack struggles to retain his sanity as his world spirals into madness and violence.
Acting
Gregory Pakis carries this with barely-contained unraveling.
Direction
JJ De Ceglie's one-man-band madness actually works.
Production
Zero budget somehow amplifies the grime.
Director
JJ De Ceglie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Ceglie literally did everything—directed, shot, edited, scored—because no budget means no crew.
This is part of a micro-wave of Australian 'poverty horror' that treats economic desperation as its own monster.
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