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1 2 form y separately published work icon Encounter at Raven's Gate Incident at Raven's Gate Rolf De Heer , Marc Rosenberg , James M. Vernon , ( dir. Rolf De Heer ) Australia : Film and General Holdings Hemdale Film Corporation International Film Management , 1988 Z1867355 1988 single work film/TV horror science fiction

When ex-con Eddie takes a job working on his older brother's isolated farm, all seems well--but not for long. Dead birds fall from the sky, pets attack their owners, and seemingly stable people go suddenly insane. What is happening at Raven's Gate?

According to science-fiction review site io9,

'Despite the relative thinness of its premise, Encounter At Raven's Gate is not all that bad a movie. The performances are solid, the characters more richly textured than you might expect and the cinematography has the lonely, big sky feel of art house Australian films like Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave and John Hillcoat's The Proposition. [...] If this seems like an awfully long way to go for an alien invasion/demon possession movie...it is. Like M. Night Shyamalan's similarly structured (and one might even go so far as to say totally rip-off) film Signs, Encounter At Raven's Gate is at its best when it's not pursuing the alien invasion story. The tension between the characters is so organic that when the inevitable magnetic anomalies, smoke machines and disco lights kick in, they rob the film of its distinctive flavor.'

Source: io9 (http://io9.com/5854464/the-australian-alien-invasion-flick-encounter-at-ravens-gate-is-like-signs-but-with-football-hooligans). (Sighted: 15/6/2012)

1 form y separately published work icon The Everlasting Secret Family Frank Moorhouse , ( dir. Mike Thornhill ) Australia : International Film Management Film and General Holdings Hemdale Film Corporation , 1988 Z1174197 1988 single work film/TV With its narrative focusing on sex and politics, The Everlasting Secret Family is about a senator who appears to the public to be a successful, happily married politician with a young son. In private, he is the head of a secret 'family' that controls a world of corruption and sexual manipulation at the top of Australian society.
1 3 form y separately published work icon The Tale of Ruby Rose Roger Scholes , ( dir. Roger Scholes ) Australia : Hemdale Film Corporation Seon Films Film and General Holdings , 1987 Z1870668 1987 single work film/TV fantasy

In the Tasmanian highlands, Ruby Rose lives with her husband Henry (a trapper) and their adopted son, Gem. Superstitious and anxious, Ruby paints the walls of her house white to keep away the darkness, but still wakes in terror each night. To learn the secret that keeps her terrified and trapped, she must venture down to the valley, to her father's house and her grandmother.

1 form y separately published work icon The Time Guardian Brian Hannant , John Baxter , ( dir. Brian Hannant ) London Australia United States of America (USA) : Hemdale Film Corporation International Film Management Film and General Holdings Chateau Productions Investments Limited , 1987 Z1864379 1987 single work film/TV science fiction

With the human race nearing extinction and the Earth now controlled by a new race of beast-like creatures, the few surviving humans isolate themselves in the City, an enormous construction with the ability to travel in both time and space. As humanity's situation becomes critical, the City travels back to the twentieth century in a desperate attempt to save humanity once and for all.

1 3 form y separately published work icon High Tide Hightide Laura Jones , ( dir. Gillian Armstrong ) Australia : Film and General Holdings Hemdale Film Corporation SJL , 1987 Z1711709 1987 single work film/TV

'After losing her job and being stranded when her car breaks down, Lilli rents a trailer by the sea. There she meets a lonely young girl who lives with her grand-mother. It transpires that the girl is Lilli's own daughter.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/232569). (Sighted: 6/3/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Slate, Wyn & Me Don McLennan , ( dir. Don McLennan ) Victoria : Film and General Holdings Hemdale Film Corporation , 1987 6319344 1987 single work film/TV crime adventure

Two armed robbers kidnap a small-town school teacher after she witness their murder of a policeman during a robbery.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Turkey Shoot Blood Camp Thatcher; Escape 2000 (International) assertion Jon George , Neill D. Hicks , ( dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith ) Australia United States of America (USA) : Film and General Holdings Hemdale Film Corporation Filmco Limited , 1982 8133147 1982 single work film/TV fantasy science fiction
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