

He has found real work and even gets engaged but he is challenged when his former cell mate Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) tracks him down. An ex-convict is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. He has found honest work and even becomes engaged but the prospect of this new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic cell mate Pommie tracks him down upon his own release. The Australian idiom mad as a cut snake describes either insanity or anger so extreme you don’t want to get near it, and while it might not mean much to audiences beyond Oz, it provides a. With Sullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell, Jessica De Gouw, Megan Holloway. The time bomb within begins to tick when he looks up his old cellmate, Sparra (Alex Russell), whom he anticipates becoming his partner in crime, only to find that the lad’s gone straight, has a regular job, and is setting up house in a country town with his fiancée, Paula (Jessica De Gouw). Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell, an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city.

Cut Snake is a tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him may be only himself. 51 METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews tbd USER SCORE No score yet Cut Snake Monterey Media Release Date: OctoSummary: Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. The title is Australia’s slang equivalent to the American phrase batshit crazy, and ex-con Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) earns the appellation in spades. As directed by Tony Ayres, Cut Snake is, like many Australian films, a work of compelling ugliness.
