‘Only the dead have seen the end of war’
The Emu War is a 2023 Australian comedy horror film in which emus fight back against the soldiers trying to cull them. It is loosely based on the real-life Great Emu War in 1932 and is described as an “unapologetically silly, ultra-low budget war epic.”
Directed and produced by John Campbell, Lisa Fineberg and Jay Morrissey from a screenplay co-written with Jonathan Schuster, Dane Simpson and Urvi Majumdar.
The movie stars Damian Callinan, Lisa Fineberg, Aaron Gocs, Dane Simpson, Ben Russell, Lena Moon, Jonathan Schuster, Cameron James, Naomi Higgins, Ethan Marrell and Luke McGregor.
Plot:
Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, a rag-tag platoon of soldiers is driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia’s deadliest flightless beasts. Haunted by the kidnapping of his son at the hands of the Emus, Major Meredith leads the platoon behind enemy lines to kill the Emus’ leader, Queen Emu…
Reviews:
“The Emu War doesn’t have a script. It doesn’t have a story. And for the majority of the time, it doesn’t have much in the way of production values either. It has an endless surplus of dialogue which the filmmakers seem to think are jokes, many of which are flashbacks seemingly designed to distract from the fact that the story is absent and bereft of movement.” 1 out of 10, Red Five Publishing
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1 hour 15 minutes
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