Kadaicha (1988)

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Every once in a while Australia produces a good straight-up horror-movie (not really considering many fine ozploitation genre-mixtures with this statement). RAZORBACK, a fine monster-movie for example. KADAICHA, however, isn't really one of those excellent horror gems. The teenage inhabitants of one particular street in a suburban area get in deadly trouble when the spirit of an ancient Aboriginal voodoo-priest wants revenge. Aparantly the houses in that street were build on an Aboriginal burial ground (what else did you expect?). The spirit of the voodoo-priest manifests itself through animals. This flick is amusing at times and gets a little boring and pretty bad at others. A 'didgeridoo' seems to be a horrifying instrument, because it can be heard on the soundtrack every time something supposedly scary is about to happen. I'll give KADAICHA some extra points because it tries hard, and the death-by-spider scene was amusing. But you'll have to be in the mood for it when you watch this stuff, otherwise you might dismiss it as nonsensical crap.

Some years ago, some aboriginal Australians were raped and killed by some white rangers. The aboriginals then buried them in sacred ground, and then they too were all killed in a fight. Developer Sorenson built a housing community on the sacred ground over the objections and warnings of protesters. He also walled up a cave that had the skeleton of a kadaicha man in it. Supposedly it's under a supermarket, but it seemed to be behind under a road with no buildings around.Teenagers living in the development one by one have a dream of the cave and the kadaicha man handing them a kadaicha stone, a rough clear crystal with some designs painted on it. They wake up with it next to them in bed. Later, they get killed by various wild creatures. As they turn to the "full blood" Billinudgel for help, they get a spirit stone, and he tries a ceremony, while the evil possesses one of them and starts doing poltergeist activity.Not a bad movie, but nothing great. Having aboriginal Australians' burial grounds rather than native Americans is a slight twist, but it doesn't make much difference apart from the digeridoo on the soundtrack.

Residents of a small housing development are being butchered off after finding strange rocks on themselves. Seems that the houses were built upon an old graveyard. Low budgeted flick has an interesting enough premise, but falls very short of its goals mainly due to an extremely low budget, shoddy camera work and a weak, below par cast. Rated R; Violence.

Kadaicha are ancient Aborigine stones whose hellish curse reaches from beyond the grave.Anyone receiving such a stone is doomed to die in terrifying circumstances.A group of local teenagers are each experiencing the same nightmarish dream about an eerie cave with sinister rock paintings and the brooding evil which dwells within.Each awakens to find an evil stone lying coldly next to them...The plot sounds really good,but the film is only decent.There are some gruesome death scenes like the spider sequence in the library,and the score is suitably creepy and menacing.7 out of 10-okay horror film!