Frenchman's Farm (1986)
An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.
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The greatest movie ever!
Best movie ever!
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Oh boy is this BAD. 'Frenchman's Farm" is an Australian supposed supernatural, suspense thriller. What it really is, is one long boring history lesson. To make matters worse the Australian dialects are difficult to deal with. Two young law students investigate a forty year old murder, revealed through a time warp. Their investigation consists of interminable walking around a farm, a graveyard, and other countryside attractions, trying to piece together what happened. After 86 minutes of watching this nonsense, you the viewer will rightfully conclude that you have just witnessed a poorly acted, poorly scripted, poorly edited, BAD film. - MERK
Absolutely brilliant! Intriguing, well thought out mystery.Good acting. Original and inventive story.The ghost cum murderer was extremely malevolent and exceedingly creepy in appearance.The end left a few loose ends that could have been tied up, but all in all, an absolute delight.Better than other high profile Australian movies like Picnic At Hanging Rock and the rather garish Wolf Creek.This should be up there with the very best and be far more well known, it certainly deserves to be.
"Frenchman's Farm" is actually more a mystery than horror.The plot centres around mysterious ghost seen on Frenchman's Farm.Two students try to discover a treasure buried somewhere near the Farm.The film is very well-made,the script is really original and interesting,the acting is fine.There are several truly creepy scenes-the scare factor is rather high and the film doesn't rely on gore.So if you like old-fashioned horror and good mystery check out this forgotten chiller from Australia.Recommended!
I came across this movie whilst going through a 80's b-movie phase. What attracted us to it was the trailer including the distressed expression on the aforementioned Frenchmans face.....or so we thought. As the story developed it turned into your run of the mill horror, the chases, the screams, the gory(as gory as a 15 rating gets) and then the ending. But this one film did not have your ordinary ending, a great twist on a classic tale. I only wish other films could have been so inventive. A true classic, worthy of all the praise it recieves, if not for the sheer crappiness of the script but for the greatness of the end.