Lost Gully Road

Social media is hell for everyone...

Cast: Adele Perovic, John Brumpton, Jane Clifton
Director: Donna McRae
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Running Time: 90 minutes

Synopsis: Social media is hell for everyone, but in Lost Gully Road, Lucy (Adele Perovic) discovers the hard way that it can be a case of life and death. Forced to get out of town – fast – her concerned sister Cassie (Eloise Mignon) finds her temporary accommodation in a region of Australia's lush yet isolated rainforest. Physically and psychologically immobilised by fear and wrestling with extreme boredom on top of it, Lucy's already tenuous mental health begins to crumble as we ask if her unseen visitor is a figment of her imagination or a very real threat to her safety. Lost Gully Road also features screen veterans Jane Clifton and John Brumpton, and a musical score by Clare Moore and Dave Graney.

Melbourne based director Donna McRae's second feature combines a moody, gothic tale with an exploration of gender and violence, isolation and trauma.

Lost Gully Road is visually and tonally a striking shift from McRae's 2011 debut Johnny Ghost, yet both movies at their heart share a fascination with haunted women struggling with issues of control, identity, reality and history.

With Lost Gully Road, the strange sense of isolation and entrapment so specific to Australian cinema is reconfigured in a horror context to grant McRae a voice to speak of the ubiquity of sexual violence and the subjectivity of trauma.

Lost Gully Road
Release Dates:
Revelation Film Festival:
Sun 15th, 12.30pm, Luna Leederville
Tue 17th, 6.15pm, Luna Leederville
VIC: Cinema Nova – 24th July @ 6:40pm

Meet the Filmmaker:
Moderated by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, join writer/director Donna McRae, producer Liz Baulch and composers Clare Moore and Dave Graney for a Q&A following the screening.

More festivals and screenings to be announced. Plus, watch out for the trailer, dropping soon!