There is a reason people avoid strangers on trains...

“A brilliant, character-driven, psychological drama to keep you on the edge of suspense and with elements you think you can guess, but will not - until the last moments - even come close, Last Train to Freo is based on a successful stage play by screenwriter Reg Cribb. I’m sure it suits the stage as aptly as it does film. It’s set in a railway carriage, in ‘real time’, on an 85 minute midnight journey from Midland to Fremantle, near Perth, Western Australia.

It involves two ex-cons and some late night games with three apparently hapless passengers. With ratcheting menace, sudden reversals of status and threat reveal themes of truth versus appearance, love, acceptance and rejection, power, intimidation, and danger and its repulsion/attraction to a certain kind of woman. Between these are revenge, raw fear and self-revelation. It’s electrifying.”

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Last Train was shot in 20 days in Perth, WA in 2005.

Premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival 2006 voted Best Australian Film

Auckland International Film Festival 2006 (NZ)

NOMINATED for 5 FCCA Awards 2006, including Best Actor & Best Adapd Screenplay

NOMINATED for 3 AFI Awards 2006, incl. Best Actor & Best Adaptd Screenplay

Director: Jeremy Sims
Producers: Jeremy Sims, Greg Duffy and Sue Taylor

Production Designer: Clayton Jauncey

TECH SPECS:

Sony F900/3 HDCAM  1080P HD

Zeiss Digiprimes

HD grade and Kine to 35mm