1983 Directed by Howard Rubie
A group of hardened criminals on the lam take refuge in the badlands of the Australian outback. When they come across a small settlement, they take hostages in case the law shows up, but are outwitted by a supernatural force, a powerful shaman.
Australia
Australia
The magical black man trope is foul enough but every white person’s impulse after being taken hostage is to pull silly billy pranks on their captors. Like one of their ideas is to just show the kidnapper a taxidermied crocodile. To what end?
