Weird
thriller in which an obsessed anthropologist
Edward Scarry (John Bach) goes missing, so his
wife Ruth (Darien Takle) calls his twin brother
Max (also John Bach) to help look for him on a
remote island, where a 'lost tribe' was found to
be living. At the same time, a dead sex worker is
found and Max is pointed out to be the suspect,
although the police are having trouble trying to
pin it on him.
Well, it looks like Edward has been killed,
possibly by the 'lost tribe' but his body hasn't
been found and no-one is willing to look for him.
So Max and Ruth go to the remote island leaving
her daughter with the local police officer but she
seems to have psychic powers and can see what is
happening. Max won't leave until he finds his
brother but Ruth gets scared and after having sex
with brother-in-law, she decides to leave the
island. Max goes out on his own and what he finds
shocks him. The movie gets good purchase from the
twin brother trope and hammers it into the ground.
You know something shady is up with both twins but
what it is turns out to be strangely more
conventional than it was made out to be.
Interesting but the film's idea of a 'lost tribe'
turns out to be a bit of misnomer which is a
shame.
There's a bit of nudity from
Darien Takle (in her first movie) over a 10 minute
period of the movie starting about 50 minutes in.
First, she is stripped naked and we see her
breasts and briefly her bottom as she continues
and has fairly boisterous sex with Max. She covers
up with a blanket after Max leaves to see what's
making a noise nearby and then Darien is stripped
of the blanket and we briefly see her left breast
as she cowers and grabs a gun, ready to shoot who
comes through the door. We then see both of her
breasts after the gun is wrested from her by Max
after she nearly shoots him. The scene on the DVD
version is very dark as it's lit by candlelight
which is a pain. There's a HD version of the movie
at NZ OnDemand but it's not available to
Australians and I haven't been able to access it
via VPN. That should be a better version.
Darien did another nude scene
25 years later in the movie 2008 social drama A
Song of Good, although it's a rape scene. She's
still acting now, as I saw her in a few episodes
of Shortland Street very recently.