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[mwynn]

Rippy | Official Trailer HD | Available October 18 - YouTube

[An4h0ny]

Crikey, was that Michael Biehn?

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A man in his seventies who was attacked by a kangaroo has been left scarred by the macho marsupial.

Brian O'Donnell, 74, was riding his motorcycle across his farm in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday night when the kangaroo began following him.

The kangaroo measured around 7 feet tall by O'Donnell's estimations and "started growling and jumping up and down," he told local news station ABC Wimmera.

"Next thing I know he was on top of me," O'Donnell said. "He had his top paws right around my back. We were almost headbutting each other. I just kept punching him until he let me go and [the kangaroo] jumped away about 15 meters (49 feet)."

There are four species of kangaroo found across Australia: the red kangaroo, the eastern grey, the western grey and the antilopine kangaroo. Kangaroo attacks on humans are uncommon but can be vicious, with some people even dying as a result.

"A typical attack is the result (most people assume) of mistaken identity. Basically, male kangaroos that are top/alpha males have got to that level because they have dominated other males in the mob, physically fighting them for preferential access to females for sex," Karl Vernes, an associate professor of ecology at the School of Environmental & Rural Science at the University of New England in Australia, told Newsweek.

[BluBonnet]

[CompleteCount]

That sequel to Wake In Fright was a long time coming!

[DR Herbert West]

[DR Herbert West]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVXbWFaJnA

[BudBaxter]

For a film about a rampaging eight foot tall zombie kangaroo, this took itself wayyyyy too seriously.

Michael Biehn is always worth watching & there's a fair bit of gore, but most of the characters are all quite melodramatic & don't seem to know what kind of film they're appearing in.

It's not bad as such, & some iffy CGI aside, it's quite well made. It just could have done with more humour & really needed to lean much further into the gonzo/grindhouse aspects of the story.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by BudBaxter

For a film about a rampaging eight foot tall zombie kangaroo, this took itself wayyyyy too seriously.

Michael Biehn is always worth watching & there's a fair bit of gore, but most of the characters are all quite melodramatic & don't seem to know what kind of film they're appearing in.

It's not bad as such, & some iffy CGI aside, it's quite well made. It just could have done with more humour & really needed to lean much further into the gonzo/grindhouse aspects of the story.

Those were pretty much my exact thoughts.
From my Letterboxd review:

Zombie kangaroo.

It's a two-word pitch that had needs no further explanation. That could be so much fun, right?
Unfortunately, they didn't go for fun. The film takes itself way too seriously, and it's mostly just boring. The few scenes with actual kangaroo action aren't even entertaining, as the CG looks like it was done in the late 90s.
Don't bother with this one.