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Dir: Rupert Glasson. Cast: Geoff Morrell, Sam Parsonson, Terry Camilleri, Lisa Chappell, Robert Taylor, Jodie Dry

 

Description: Rob and his wife Jess live in a small fishing village in South Australia. They are desperate to start a family but despite their best efforts, they are unable to conceive. Jess drowns her sorrows at the local bar, where she foolishly initiates a drunken one-night stand with handsome stranger Evan. Their one bout of unprotected sex leads Jess to fall pregnant and Evan becomes dangerously obsessed with his role as the father.

Country: UK/AUSTRALIA. 2009. 92mins
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Stalked by a psychopath in Coffin Rock

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  23.10.09
 
Coffin Rock

Robert Glasson's film is well-shot and directed

In this Australian version of Fatal Attraction, Lisa Chappell plays a wife who is unable to conceive with her husband but becomes pregnant after a drunken tryst with a young Irishman (Sam Parsonson).

He turns out to be a psychopath who mercilessly stalks her, claiming the child as his own.

What should she do? She daren't tell her husband (Robert Taylor) and can't get rid of her stalker.

Robert Glasson's film is well-shot and directed, and more than decently acted. As a genre movie, it suffices.

As anything better - a psychological thriller, for instance - it falls short of full enjoyment.


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