100 Bloody Acres

The film's co-director Colin Cairnes said of this movie: ''We wanted '100 Bloody Acres' to be pure horror. We just wanted it to be a really scary 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' type of film. But somehow as work progressed, another less sinister element found its way into the script. As we were writing it, we found ourselves writing jokes. We just couldn't help ourselves. But as the characters and the situations developed, it seemed to be going down a slightly different path and we just embraced that.''

Co-director Cameron Cairnes explained that the first draft of the script was written six or seven years earlier. He said that the film's shooting script ''is essentially the same architecture.'' There's an element of innovation, of pushing boundaries, in 100 Bloody Acres. Early drafts toyed with ambitious ideas of continuous action, à la Hitchcock's 'Rope' or the more recent 'Russian Ark'. The notion of real time interested the brothers. ''Yes, how naïve we were,'' laughed co-director Colin Cairnes. ''But whether or not it was one shot, the idea of continuous action appealed to us. The actual story hasn't changed much since that second draft where that was the plan. But I think as fun as that concept was, it was potentially going to deny us the opportunity to explore all the characters as fully as we wanted to.'' The film does retain some of that sense of real time, as events reach their inevitable, inexorable conclusion. ''So I think we've hung onto some of that original vision while giving it more of a classic cinema structure," explained Colin. ''We have definitely been respectful-to a large degree-of horror film conventions but what will set this film apart is how we play with the audience's expectations of the genre.''

The comedic instinct of the Cairnes brothers Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes has always been an essential ingredient of the film and television recipes they've cooked up in the past. Their IF (Inside Film) award-winning short film 'Celestial Avenue' (2009) centred on a Melbourne girl who falls in love with a boy who works in a restaurant in Chinatown. At the same time as being fall-down funny it was also told warmly. Colin Cairnes said: ''Regardless of what the project is, we tend to fall in love with our characters, even the evil ones. Once we flesh them out they become a lot more complex and interesting-and funny.''

Damon Herriman's second appearance as a roadkill retriever. The first was in House of Wax (2005).

Debut feature film of the film-making fraternity of brothers Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes.