Cirrus@Austlit

After her divorce, Lynn Graham returns to Australia with her American-born children, buying a house in the same street as her sister as a means of making a new start. But the house has a history of murder and satanic ritual, and soon two of her children are enslaved by the sinister forces emanating from the cubbyhouse in the back garden.

'Some people say love is sex, sex is love. While others say sex is a four letter word. Sylvia is a love columnist who is writing a book on love stories. On a warm summer night she has invited six friends to tell true stories of their intimate love and sexual experiences. During the course of the evening the boundaries between love, sex and friendship narrow. People are exposed, fears are shared, friendships tested and relationships are destroyed and new ones formed. SEX IS A FOUR LETTER WORD is a contemporary film about love in the 1990s.'

Source: Screen Australia.

A seemingly stable and happily married woman, Madaline Carr begins to experience a series of intense dreams and hallucinations. As her husband Martin tries to help her work through the situation, she becomes increasingly convinced not only that she was responsible for the death of her younger brother some twenty years earlier but also that her long-deceased sibling has returned and is trying to kill her. Determined to return to the rural area in which she grew up and where her brother died, Madaline finds a different kind of horror in a missing husband and a pair of grizzled trappers.