Name: Wake in Fright
Start: 2026-09-22T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-22T19:19:00-04:00
Location: Metrograph

This event is in the past.It took place on September 22, 2026 at Metrograph.

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Drama Film

Wake in Fright

September 22 at 5:30pm

At Metrograph

Chinatown, New York

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🎬Considered one of the greatest Australian films ever made

🍸Bar and restaurant upstairs for pre-film drinks

🪑Seats are wooden and firm, not cushy

A young teacher's layover in an outback mining town becomes a five-day descent into booze, brutality, and existential dread. Ted Kotcheff's 1971 shocker is Australian cinema at its most unflinching: restored in 4K and still deeply disturbing.

gritty Australian classic

existential nightmare

4K restoration

cult cinema

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