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Bedevil

"When the Unexplained Happens"

1993

1h 27m

5.6(8 votes)

Horror

Overview

Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years

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Production Companies

Australian Film Finance Corporation

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Lex Marinos

Dimitri

Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt

Ruby Morphet

Riccardo Natoli

Spiro

Dina Panozzo

Dina Panozzo

Voula

Jack Charles

Jack Charles

Rick

Diana Davidson

Shelley

Ben Kennedy

Rick at 11 years

Kenneth Avery

Rick at 7 years

Daphne Byers

Rick's Sister

Lavinia Phillips

Rick's Sister

Creative team

Directed by: Tracey Moffatt
Written by: Tracey Moffatt

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