Fortress Fortress

For one teacher and nine children, the lesson of the day is kill or be killed.

After being kidnapped by four, masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

Sean Garlick Rachel Ward Elaine Cusick Laurie Moran Marc Aden Ray Chubb Bradley Meehan Rebecca Rigg Beth Buchanan Anna Crawford Richard Terrill Vernon Wells Peter Hehir David Bradshaw Roger Stephen Wendy Playfair Ed Turley Nick Waters Terence Donovan Asher Keddie

Crawford Productions

foreign thriller horror

88 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • alline

    Review by alline

    MEDO!

  • Aaron King

    Review by Aaron King ★★★½

    the last 30 minutes reminds me of Lord of the Flies and how primitive people can turn when faced with something so horrifying.

  • Antti Viklund

    Review by Antti Viklund ★★★

    Australian thriller with some survival aspects. It's watchable but the acting is pretty bad. I guess it was a TV-movie originally.

  • Alan Woodham

    Review by Alan Woodham ★★★½

    This film felt like a mixture of 'Walkabout', 'Lord of the flies', 'Last house on the left' and 'Home alone. It had good features from all of them, and made for a pretty interesting and enjoyable film.
    Some of the gore effects in the latter part of film were really good too, and the style of the film itself was pleasant throughout.
    There was an element of suspence, but it wasn't overly powerful, and could have been better worked into the film to make it more tense.
    The ending fit nicely, it tied in well with the rest of the film. Unfortunately, at points of the film, it was unclear who it was aimed at. It almost felt likes a…

  • Adam Cook

    Review by Adam Cook ★★★

    Fortress is a taut but patchy Australian TV thriller about a group of school children and their teacher who must fight for survival against their kidnappers. The film gets a lot right but is almost undone by a flat and wooden performance by Rachel Ward as the teacher. She stinks up the film every time she opens her mouth and is out acted by even the youngest cast members. It is a shame she is so terrible because, if you can overlook her performance, the film is a tightly paced and surprisingly bloody thriller.

    In many ways it reminds me of the brilliant WWII film, Went the Day Well?, in the way ordinary people are forced to fight back against…

  • Ian Woolstencroft

    Review by Ian Woolstencroft ★★½

    A better director and actress could have made more out of Aussie horror legend Everett De Roche's screenplay but this still has the occasional effective moment. It's biggest failing is its uneven tone (excluding Ward's typically one note performance that is) with the violent finale coming as a bit of a shock after the tame thrills that have gone before.