100 Bloody Acres

Plot synopsis:
Reg and Lindsay Morgan own and operate a small blood and bone fertiliser business in country South Australia. While making local deliveries and the occasional roadkill pick up, Reg encounters the crash site of a van, the driver dead inside. Reg recovers the body from the crash and puts it in the back of his own truck. Making his way back to the brothers' plant, Reg is delayed again, this time by three tourists stuck on the side of the road: Sophie, a young woman; James, Sophie's boyfriend; and Wes, James' friend, with whom Sophie is having an affair. Reg takes an instant attraction to Sophie, and, against his better judgement, allows the three to ride with him.
Wes and James ride in the back of the truck with the hidden corpse, and Sophie rides up front with Reg. Sophie gets to know Reg, while James tells Wes that he plans to marry Sophie. The pair soon discover the corpse and fear for their lives. Sophie starts to find things in common with Reg, but Reg's anxiety gets the better of him. This unnerves Sophie, and, as soon as the truck arrives at the plant, Reg detains her. Lindsay arrives and demands to know what is going on. Reg suggests that they can grind the people into fertiliser, and Lindsay berates him for his lack of planning for such a bold crime. Ultimately, Lindsay agrees to Reg's idea, and it is revealed that the pair have ground humans in the past: in order to create a new formula for their fertiliser, the pair ground a group of charity volunteers who crashed and died in a nearby road accident.
Wes and James are soon detained with Sophie, and the trio watch as Reg and Lindsay grind the driver. At the last minute, Reg becomes convinced that the man is still alive and tries to save him, to no avail. When Wes cuts himself loose and escapes, Lindsay pursues him. Sophie takes advantage of the situation and attempts to seduce Reg, much to James' chagrin. Reg catches on to the ruse and exposes Sophie's infidelity with Wes, further angering James. Lindsay soon returns with Wes, accumulating the body of a local police officer along the way. Reg now begins to have serious second thoughts about the pair's actions. When Nancy, their elderly neighbour, surprises the brothers with a visit, Lindsay stuffs Reg in a car boot with Wes, cutting off Wes' hand in the process. Reg and Wes work together to escape, and Reg enters the house alone to confront his brother.
Reg overhears Lindsay tell Nancy that Reg has moved away, perhaps permanently. As Reg gathers his courage, Lindsay and Nancy begin to have sex. Severely disturbed, Reg decides instead to stealthily steal Lindsay's keys. As he is about to take them, Wes stumbles into the house, looking for his missing hand. In a fit of rage, Lindsay kills Wes and Nancy, and Reg flees with the keys. James and Sophie panic when they hear the gunshots, but Sophie decides to return to the farm when she hears Reg call out to her; James angrily breaks up with Sophie as she leaves. After a brief struggle, Lindsay overpowers and ties up Reg. As Lindsay prepares Reg for grinding, Sophie returns and distracts Lindsay. Reg is able to pull him in to the grinder, killing him; afterward, Sophie and Reg share a momentary attraction. In a post credits scene, James hysterically runs onto the road and is killed by a reckless driver.

Tags: comedy, murder, violence

Review:
More of a comedy than anything else, in spite of the blood&gore.
On the other hand, there was sufficient blood&gore to let it fall under the Horror category.
Still, I found it more of a Comedy rather than anything else.The plot elements were cleverly employed, like the use of human bodies (from travel accidents, at first) to "improve" the fertilizer that the two brothers produce.
Those movie lovers fainting on the sight of blood, are better off when they avoid this one.The real secret ingredient of this film, however, is the humor that is incorporated all over the story, and works very well in hiding there is no real story to tell.
It is a Comedy rather than a Horror movie, is my conclusion, with the blood&gore only as binding element.All in all, I found this Horror very enjoyable.
I usually try to steer clear of blood&gore movies, but this time it is not the central theme that binds the scenes, unlike some other movies with no recognizable story line other than providing for reasons to miserably end other people's lives.
The relationship between the two fertilizer making brothers is much more important, as is the hasty and uncoordinated way they try to cover their tracks when the darker side of their business might be exposed.
Co-writer/directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes, in their feature film debut, successfully deliver all the essential elements needed to both make you laugh & squirm in their new black comedy "100 Bloody Acres".
A story of two unscrupulous brothers, Reg(Damon Herriman) and Lindsay Morgan(Angus Sampson) and their quest to be the unrivaled top dogs of the local fertilizer industry, a status that they will stop at nothing to achieve.
Our story starts out with Reg, while out driving one day he encounters a trio of kids, Sophie(Anna McGahan),James(Oliver Ackland) and Wesley(Jamie Kristian) who happen to have the bad luck of having car trouble and are looking for a ride into town to attend a local music festival.
At first Reg resists, but after some thought & a little nagging, he reluctantly welcomes James & Wes into the back of his cube truck & Sophie up front to ride with him.
Any good intentions soon vanish as the guys discover the body of a man Reg previously collected from an accident scene.
Thus the film descends into a quite comical & altogether gory fight as the trio does their best to remain "unprocessed" at the brother's fertilizer factory.While the plot consisted of conventional & somewhat clichéd ideas it used those elements to their maximum potential.
With fine acting from the entire cast, skillful gore effects and proper production values, the film managed some serious laugh out loud moments while also delivering a few bona fide quirky uncomfortable scenes of horror, all of which were delivered in fun, as it stayed mainly on the black comedy track.
If you don't mind gore and have the urge for a hilarious Aussie dark comedy, I absolutely recommend it.--^--7.4/10--^--.
Australian horror-comedy, 100 Bloody Acres starts off promising enough, but falls flat quickly as it falls into the trap of recycling past material.
The film fails at both being a comedy and a horror; being cheap, tacky and clichéd, this film doesn't reach any height that a toddler couldn't.Quite a boring expedition into the 'Wild Australian Outback' with this mock of a Wolf Creek like killer.
Cameron and Colin Cairnes wrote and directed a gem in 100 Bloody Acres.Starring Angus Sampson has also been another classic flicks, Insidious 2010, Insidious: Chapter 2 2013, Insidious: Chapter 3, Mad Max: Fury Road 2016 and a series of the classic television series, Underbelly 2008-2013.Also starring Damon Herriman who has also been in other classic flicks, House of Wax 2005, Son of a Gun 2014 and Praise 1998.Also starring Anna McGahan who was also in a series of the classic television series, Underbelly 2008-2013.Also starring John Jarrat who has also been in another classic backwoods flick, Wolf Creek 2005, Wolf Creek 2 2013 and other classic flicks, Django Unchained 2012, Rogue 2007, Dead Heart 1996, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith 1978, Dark Age 1987, Blue Murder 1995 and an episode of the classic television series Police Rescue 1989-1996.I enjoyed the violence, comedy and the scenes where the knife gets flicked and the aunty on the chair in the lounge room scene!If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic backwoods flicks, Hatchet III 2013, The Cabin in the Woods 2012, A Lonely Place to Die 2011, Resurrection County 2008, Straw Dogs 2011, Transit 2012, Tucker & Dale vs.
Both are comedies with horror elements if you will (or the other way around), but the way they are presented is more than different.
Not to mention the facets of the characters involved here.Tucker and Dale is simpler, which is not supposed to be a judgment, I loved the movie.
Full of dark humor and twisted gore!.
'100 BLOODY ACRES': Four Stars (Out of Five) Brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes make their feature film debut writing and directing this Australian horror/comedy film about brothers who run an organic fertiliser business that's dependent on dead bodies (as it's secret ingredient) to make it work so well.
The movie stars character actors Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson as the brothers and the beautiful Anna McGahan as one of their captured victims.
The movie is full of dark humor and twisted gore.
If you like dark Australian comedy and horror this is the movie for you.Lindsay Morgan (Sampson) and his brother Reg (Herriman) have been running a successful organic fertiliser business for some time, that's finally getting it's first radio add, but the only problem is it's dependent on dead bodies, ran through a meat grinder, to make it work so well.
The Morgan brothers have been collecting car crash victims to supply this 'secret ingredient' to their fertiliser and as the film opens Reg has just found another body at a crash site.
While he's hauling the body home though he comes across a young woman, Sophie (McGahan), and her two male friends (Oliver Ackland and Jamie Kristian).
Due to the lack of dead bodies recently he decides to take them home, to his brother Lindsay, to use as the fertiliser ingredient instead (in an attempt to impress his bossy older brother).
Things don't go as planned though as Reg develops feelings for Sophie.If you couldn't tell the movie is part romance as well (twisted romance).
It's definitely not for the faint of heart though (or for those who become sickened by the site of blood and gore) but as a dark comedy and horror film it really works.
The Reg character is actually pretty likable and Sophie is one of the coolest and most ideal women a guy could hope for.
I love films like this; their great as long as you don't take them seriously.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQ4A-I9-JM.
100 Bloody Acres a great example of Australian film making, written and directed by the Cairnes brothers, it marked their feature length debut.
The Australians have a long history of great quirky films that tend to offer something a bit different and this one fits right into that history!
Its the story of a pair of brothers,Reg and Lindsay, who have an entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness to go the extra mile to get it right.
Reg comes across an accident scene, checking it out he realizes the driver is dead and hatches a plan for success.
Driving back to the family farm, and production facility he offers to help some unlucky travelers on their way to a music festival, who have run into a bit of car trouble.
He picks up the trio, Sophie, James and Wes, The boys go back into the back of the truck where the body is hidden and sophie rides shotgun with Reg. They pair begin to chat it up, as the boys in back find trouble.
Reg is desperate for his brothers approval, so he soldiers on but it isn't long before he has second thoughts and thats where things get really interesting.
Is there music and love in the future for our travelers or will they be spread between the rows like so much manure??100 Bloody Acres is a great film!
It has everything you need for a good time some weird sex, infidelity, sibling rivalry, a bit of good gore, hilarious action scenes and more!
It reminded me a bit of Black Sheep in the feel and tempo of the film, but was something very different in story.
I definitely recommend this one, its not going to have you jumping out of your seat but it will probably make you double over in laughter, while still giving enough tension and gore to appease your horror appetite!
One bloody funny comedy.
What this movie has going for it, is that it is an impressively funny comedy, and the gore isn't really that disturbing, because it looks very fake, but this is exactly how the film, was meant to be taken.
The always talented Herriman and his domineering brother, a real deeply dark, and disturbing performance by our Angus Sampson who played Prozac in Dags, run a dark organic fertilizer business, and have a guess what gets mixed in with the fertilizer.
There's some classic moments, and there's some of that real sharp cutting humor that made Two Hands the hit it was, and we do see a greater loss than hands go astray, and too we too have one gross, abhorrent, repellent, and gross, sex scene you'll never see coming, where if like Herriman, trying to acquire those keys, you'd want to parry your eyes as much as you could, or may'be sneak a peek in morbid fascination.
Yes this film is a little morbid, and likable Anna Gaghan as one of the hostage witnesses to Herriman's and Angus's insane operation, again shows her natural and realistic acting as a two timing sl..
no I won't say that word, who now falls in love with Reg, (Herriman) and you probably, thinking they live happily ever after right.
This film is fantastic and as far as comedy horror is concerned, one of the best.
The acting is the best I've seen for this kind of film and the special effects are great.
100 bloody acres is a cross between Lunchmeat/TCM and just about any roady horror film of the last 10 years or so but what I loved about this film was it didn't stop being fun.
They slowly start showing more gore, but that doesn't save the movie.The characters are boring which is what kills the movie.
It totally doesn't work.The saving grace is the mild humor from one of the characters who takes 'acid' which gives some decent comedic moments.
No mistake there's a lot of ickiness but when this charming feature gets going with its well-drawn oddball characters it's a delicious dark comedy above all.
The high-school gags and just the plane quirkiness lifts this out of the horror zone in the main and has a almost a relaxed country pace overlaid by timeless Aussie music on the radio.
Seems a little high on concept and maybe too many stupid ideas for one film - like an over eager film studies submission but it's a jolly good ride, bumpy, hairy, and a bloody good laugh..
A Funny and Twisted Dark Comedy..
I ran across this movie while looking up information on the actor Angus Sampson, after my girlfriend and I finished the second season of Fargo.
I wasn't disappointed with '100 Bloody Acres, and is a great addition to the dark-comedy genre.The real gem in this film is the comedy duo of Reg and Lindsay Morgan; two bumbling bogan brothers who run their own fertilizer business in rural Australia.
Damon Herriman plays the younger of the two (Reg) who only lives to impress his brother played by Angus Sampson.
They play off each others' dialogue, action and mistakes so well, that it's easy to believe they're siblings just trying to make ends meet, but are so mental that they both suffer from the same disorder: severe stupidity.Sure the movie is fairly predictable throughout, and there is some absolutely terrible acting from the main trio who end up in trouble, but events unfold and there are some very funny and gross moments in this film.
Direction wise it's a short and sweet little film without too much going on.
By the end of the film, they were definitely focusing on the dark and gory side of things.If you enjoy a twisted comedy then I would recommend this one.5/10.
Offbeat horror comedy that doesn't break any new ground but does entertain.
This Aussie romp about inept murder-brothers (played by Angus Sampsonand Damon Herriman) exemplifies what a horror-comedy should be.
The quips are laugh-out-loud worthy, the physical humour is never absurd or bad enough to take you out of the moment, the premise is original enough, the reference humour is played well and doesn't get in your face (which I truly appreciate, and makes for the much better laugh), it's just haphazard enough to feel roller-coaster-y without feeling disjointed, from a formulaic standpoint it stands heads and shoulders above most other films of the genre.
It's a solid film, a recommendable one even, but there's no real staying factor here, and I fear its value will slip with the passing of time, which is unfortunate for such a rare bit of perfectly-toeing-the-line horror/comedy.
Unfunny "horror" film.
The acting was good, but when the screenplay is this bad you really have to feel sorry for the actors for doing such a commendable job with such a weak script.Horribly unfunny.What little humor there was in this movie was of the situational variety, which works well in a TV sitcom if the jokes and acting back it up.
Horror, gore and comedy..
This Australian horror movie is directed and written by brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes.
Brothers Reg(Damon Herriman)and Lindsay(Angus Sampson)Brown own and operate an organic fertilizer company and are running a bit behind on orders due to the lack of their "special ingredient"...road kill.
As Reg is running the roads in search of well, you know...three friends James, Sophie and Wesley encounter car trouble on their way to a much anticipated music festival.
It is not hard to convince Lindsay to fire up the grinder, when Reg arrives with fresh stock to complete the current run of fertilizer.Besides being funny, there are enough moments that will have you cringing, flinching and possibly gagging.
This horror film is a hoot!
Very funny, if derivative horror/comedy.
This was a very enjoyable low budget, black comedy about two brothers with a fertilizer company, who find an innovative way to increase the potassium level of their product.
This type of thing has been done before (Motel Hell, Blood Diner, The Undertaker and His Pals, etc...), but this flick kept things moving with a lot of quirky characters and funny lines that kept it flowing right to the end.
When Australian movies have a hip sense of humor like this one had, they make for a great viewing experience, but there really aren't that many that I've encountered that are particularly funny.
The performance of the brothers, the cop, and the old lady with her Corgi were the comic highlights of the film.
I don't know if the songs on the radio that were played almost continually throughout the film were written especially for the movie, but they were hilarious also.
Searching on Amazon UK,I found a 100 acre Aussie Horror Comedy.View on the film:Down on the farm with the Morgan's, co-writers/directors Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes harvest Ozploitation gore with uneven gallows humour.
Stuffing the soundtrack with thigh-slapping Hicksploitation Aussie Country tunes, the directors give the Morgan's human meat grinding a grubby, dried blood and sand appearance which gets under the nails in the most grisly splatter moments.
Hitch-Hiking a trio into the Morgan's business, the directors chop thick slices of black comedy from sheer over the top level of pain inflicted on the trio.
Although the Horror-Comedy hits when dealing in Slap-Stick, the screenplay by Cairnes and Cairnes has an oddly dry tone, due to little time being given to build the Morgan's as a serious threat before the hit and miss darkly comedic one-liners roll out across 100 bloody acres..
Sophie (Anna McGahan) along with her BF (Oliver Ackland) and Wesley (Jamie Kristian) a male rival are headed via the back roads to a music festival when their automobile breaks down.
They get a ride from Reg Morgan (Damon Herriman) who is driving the company truck of Morgan Brother's "Blood and Bone" organic fertilizer.
Not too hard to figure the rest out.The film has some blood splatter scenes, but lacks the gore.
This slasher film is in part dark comedy as Reg, is the younger partner brother who is insecure in what he does as well as being sexually repressed.
While facing death, Sophie's boyfriend is more concerned about her infidelity, wanting to know the details of what she did, rather than being worried about the situation at hand.The film is a good concept, but comes off as going through the motions.
100 BLOODY ACRES is something of a mixed bag when it comes to horror film-making.
100 BLOODY ACRES is posited as a black comedy so the laughs here are largely intentional.
The set-up tends to be better than the pay-off and it all becomes a bit aimless in the second half, throwing in gross-out gags and random gore rather than telling much of a real story.
I especially loved the Aussie country music, which is every bit as goofy as you'd expect.I have no proof of this, but I suspect the movie was inspired by an Ambrose Bierce story called "Oil of Dog."