If natural disasters are any indication than Mother Nature is one crazy unstable bitch. She also has a legion of furry, scaly, creepy crawly, and sea loving minions ready and willing to do her biding. Enter Peter and Marcia, a couple trying to salvage a marriage that has lost that loving feeling with a long weekend of camping. They begin their romantic trip by running over a helpless kangaroo, and then over the course of twenty four hours commit more crimes against nature by pissing off ants, an eagle, a tassie devil, a tree, ducks, and even try to kill an innocent dugong (Australia’s answer to the manatee). These bastards also litter, a lot!
Their constant bickering is interrupted by an ominous howl that haunts the camp grounds, a sound that is akin to an animal being slaughtered. This isn’t anything like that soothing “rainforest” setting on your Sharper Image alarm clock. Unless you enjoy waking up to the sound of death with your Folgers. And then the animal retaliation begins, with Peter taking the brunt of the attacks: first by an eagle, then a hungry yet adorable possum. And remember that dugong? Well, he just. won’t. die. So keep shooting Peter. But the movie asks us is nature really after them or are the couple’s inner demons really creating these problems? Watch and see. Either way it’s safe to say that they should have booked a room at the Holiday Inn instead.
