supermax &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:supermax @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:18:04 +0200 Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ghosts-of-the-civil-dead-1988 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" Hug An Australian Day/div div class="img" Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (1988)/div div class="caption" One of the inmates near a small window. The light's cold. DPs: Paul Goldman & Graeme Wood./div div class="txt" ##### John Hillcoat's deeply unpleasant debut is based on In the Belly of the Beast (1981), a collection of excerpts of letters between prisoner Jack Henry Abbott and author Norman Mailer. True to the book's format, Ghosts consists of disjointed vignettes of monologues, #CCTV footage, title cards, and prisoners' phone calls.\ &nbsp; ##### For the last 37 months, these filters inform the observer, the hypermodern #supermax Central Industrial Prison has been in permanent lockdown. The cast, a mix of professional actors and ex-cons, and the location, a clean factory-style hangar in the middle of the Australian desert, underscore the underlying raw brutality of the unfolding events.\ &nbsp; "Officer, come here. I wanna spit in your fucking eye!" ### – Maynard\ ##### The #industrial soundtrack is by Bad Seed Nick Cave (co-writer and starring as Maynard), Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld from when they were still closer to being birthday boys than morose crooners./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #HugAnAustralianDay #crime #prison #PrisonSystem #SciFi #BookAdaptation #prison #JackHenryAbbott #NormanMailer #BlixaBargeld #NickCave #MickHarvey #JohnHillcoat #PaulGoldman #GraemeWood #Australia #1980s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988)

Apr

26

Hug An Australian Day

Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (1988)

One of the inmates near a small window. The light's cold. DPs: Paul Goldman & Graeme Wood.

John Hillcoat's deeply unpleasant debut is based on In the Belly of the Beast (1981), a collection of excerpts of letters between prisoner Jack Henry Abbott and author Norman Mailer. True to the book's format, Ghosts consists of disjointed vignettes of monologues, #CCTV footage, title cards, and prisoners' phone calls.

 

For the last 37 months, these filters inform the observer, the hypermodern #supermax Central Industrial Prison has been in permanent lockdown. The cast, a mix of professional actors and ex-cons, and the location, a clean factory-style hangar in the middle of the Australian desert, underscore the underlying raw brutality of the unfolding events.

 

“Officer, come here. I wanna spit in your fucking eye!”

– Maynard

The #industrial soundtrack is by Bad Seed Nick Cave (co-writer and starring as Maynard), Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld from when they were still closer to being birthday boys than morose crooners.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #HugAnAustralianDay #crime #prison #PrisonSystem #SciFi #BookAdaptation #prison #JackHenryAbbott #NormanMailer #BlixaBargeld #NickCave #MickHarvey #JohnHillcoat #PaulGoldman #GraemeWood #Australia #1980s ★★★★½

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