Dark Age

About Dark Age

Dark Age is a 1987 horror adventure film directed by Arch Nicholson, produced by Antony I. Ginnane and starring John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, and Max Phipps. The film is an adaptation of the novel Numunwari by Australian conservationist Grahame Webb. The plot follows an Australian park ranger tasked with hunting Numunwari, a 25-foot crocodile sacred to the local Aboriginal people. The film was released on July 10, 1987.

Overview

Dark Age is a 1987 Australian horror adventure film directed by Arch Nicholson, produced by Antony I. Ginnane and starring John Jarratt. Plot During a massive rainstorm, a trio of poachers head out into a local river in the Northern Territory to hunt crocodiles. Upon finding a massive saltwater crocodile, the poachers attempt to capture it. However, the crocodile tips their boat over and attacks, leaving only one survivor - John Besser (Max Phipps). The next day, ranger and herpetologist Steve Harris (John Jarratt), Oondabund (Burnum Burnum), the leader of a local Aboriginal community, and his second-in-command Adjaral (David Gulpilil) head out to check on the poachers and rescue Besser. Besser however vows revenge against the crocodile. The crocodile subsequently attacks and murders an Aboriginal child. Harris is assigned by his boss Rex Garret (Ray Meagher) to kill the crocodile. However, Oondabund refuses to allow this, revealing to Harris that the crocodile - named Namunwari - is believed to be a mystical repository of the community's souls.

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Notable quotes

“According to Manu a child who is born of lust is not an Aryan. The child whose very conception and whose death is according to the rules of the Vedas, such is an Aryan. Yes, and less of these Aryan children are being produced in every country, and the result is the mass of evil which we call Kali Yuga.”
— Swami Vivekananda, "The Vedanta", A Speech delivered at Lahore on 12th November, 1897.

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