FilmSurvival Splatter & Gore Folk Horror

Van Diemen's Land2009

Name: Van Diemen's Land
Genre: Survival, Splatter & Gore, Folk Horror
Released: 2009-09-24
Rating: 6.2

“Hunger is a strange silence”

Directed by Jonathan auf der Heide

6.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.9Rotten Tomatoes 75%TMDB 5.3

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Year

2009

Runtime

104 min

Box Office

🏆 2 wins & 1 nomination

The premise

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.

Horror Vault's take

Deep in the untamed wilderness of early 19th-century Tasmania, a group of escaped convicts discover that the land itself may be the least of their dangers. Based on the real and notorious case of Alexander Pearce, the film charts a harrowing journey through breathtaking yet merciless terrain where starvation and desperation push men to their absolute limits. What begins as a bid for freedom becomes something far darker — a test of how thin the line between civilization and savagery truly is.

Content: Cannibalism, Graphic Violence, Gore, Depictions Of Starvation And Physical Deterioration