**SPOILERS** Efective remake of the 1978 thriller "Long Weekend" the movie "Nature's Grave" later also renamed "Long Weekend" has to do with this couple Peter & Carla, James Caviezel & Claudia Karvan, out on a trip in the Australian wilds in order to get away from it all. Right from the start the couple find an unexpected guest in their SUV their dog Cricket who sneaked her way on while they were packing their camping equipment. As things turn out it's Cricket who becomes the couples eyes and ears in her ability to help them find their way in the unfriendly and dangerous wilds as well as they way out of them.
It's when Pete's friends and fellow campers Luke and Carroll don't show up at the prearranged meeting place at the Eggleston Pub it's decided by him and Carla to go it alone to the isolated Moonda Beach on the South Australian Coast. When the two finally get there, after an horrific night of traveling through the wilds, it seems like they stumbled upon a lost world!
We soon get to see by Peter and Crala's conversations with each other that their marriage was already on the rocks and it's this trip to the country that's the final straw in their already strained relationship. The movie doesn't really explain what happened but it seems that Peter somehow loses his mind, possible due to being bitten by a poisonous snake, and starts hallucination things that drives his wife Carla crazy!
We soon see a number of events happen that doesn't seem to make any sense at all! With the exception of the family dog Cricket both Peter and Carla are completely lost in the wild and at the mercy of every living creature, from ants to giant sea-cows, in it. Peter who's a bit unstable to begin with soon goes completely off his rocker and becomes so deranged that Carla decides to leave him, together with Cricket, to fend for himself. This turns out to be a fatal mistake on Carla's part in that she's as lost in the woods as her husband Peter is and by going it alone she only makes things worse for herself.
***SPOILERS*** Beautifully photographed suspense thriller with a number of really heart-dropping scenes in it "Nature's Grave" shows what being isolated in the wilds and away from civilization can do to people who, like Peter and Carla, first experience it. What happens in the movie can be attributed to Peter's unbalanced state of mind that coupled with the total isolation, as well as snake bite, he's exposed to that put his brain on automatic pilot without him knowing it. It may well have been that what can explain the murder mayhem and insanity in the film that at first, until you realized that this is all in Peter's head, seemed totally unexplainable!
It's when Pete's friends and fellow campers Luke and Carroll don't show up at the prearranged meeting place at the Eggleston Pub it's decided by him and Carla to go it alone to the isolated Moonda Beach on the South Australian Coast. When the two finally get there, after an horrific night of traveling through the wilds, it seems like they stumbled upon a lost world!
We soon get to see by Peter and Crala's conversations with each other that their marriage was already on the rocks and it's this trip to the country that's the final straw in their already strained relationship. The movie doesn't really explain what happened but it seems that Peter somehow loses his mind, possible due to being bitten by a poisonous snake, and starts hallucination things that drives his wife Carla crazy!
We soon see a number of events happen that doesn't seem to make any sense at all! With the exception of the family dog Cricket both Peter and Carla are completely lost in the wild and at the mercy of every living creature, from ants to giant sea-cows, in it. Peter who's a bit unstable to begin with soon goes completely off his rocker and becomes so deranged that Carla decides to leave him, together with Cricket, to fend for himself. This turns out to be a fatal mistake on Carla's part in that she's as lost in the woods as her husband Peter is and by going it alone she only makes things worse for herself.
***SPOILERS*** Beautifully photographed suspense thriller with a number of really heart-dropping scenes in it "Nature's Grave" shows what being isolated in the wilds and away from civilization can do to people who, like Peter and Carla, first experience it. What happens in the movie can be attributed to Peter's unbalanced state of mind that coupled with the total isolation, as well as snake bite, he's exposed to that put his brain on automatic pilot without him knowing it. It may well have been that what can explain the murder mayhem and insanity in the film that at first, until you realized that this is all in Peter's head, seemed totally unexplainable!