The read
A Balasaur Score of 53 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 4.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 63%. Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 20m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.
Ratings
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
119 audience votes
Key crew
- Josh ReedDirector
- Nigel ChristensenWriter
- Josh ReedWriter
Cast
- Zoe Tuckwell-SmithAnja
- Krew BoylanMel
- Will TravelDace
- Damien FreeleagusWarren
- Rebekah FoordKris
- Lindsay FarrisChad
