![]() As I told my wife when we were about halfway through this movie, it's one of those films that has the potential to have a twist involving him having a split personality (though that did not turn out to be the case).Īs we began to learn more about his past and the reason his patients were dead, it only served to open up more of a mystery. Not to mention, because of his state of mind, it wasn't immediately clear whether or not he was really talking to ghosts or if he was just imagining it. But, at the same time, wasn't really sure how her more-recent death was connected to an event from two decades earlier (and in a different town). I knew, from the way the movie was introduced, it had something to do with his own daughter's death (specifically, what drew his attention away from her, allowing her to get hit by a car). ![]() The main one was I loved the mystery behind Bower (Brody) and why he was seeing the ghosts. There were a couple things I found I really liked about this movie. I had never heard of it before, but I did recognize some of the main actors and decided to give it a try. And, while searching Netflix options, I came across this film. But some of the CGI special effects look a little unconvincing, especially the climactic train crash that is at the heart of the drama.Getting a bit bored with "Law & Order" re-runs, I convinced my wife to watch a movie with me after putting the kids to bed. Dale Cornelius’ score is also quite evocative and moody. Much of the action takes place in the pouring rain or at night, and the moody and atmospheric cinematography from Stefan Duscio ( The Turning) adds to the impending sense of dread and uneasiness. The film was shot in the town of Carcourt, in New South Wales, and the small town setting lends authenticity to the material. There are some well placed shocks and jolts, but it all seems a little derivative as Petronis reworks many of the tropes of the horror genre. He falls into a rabbit hole of unwelcome revelations. Bower uncovers the truth about a traumatic incident that he has blocked from his memory.īacktrack starts off fairly awkwardly and slowly but it picks up the pace and the tension as Bower returns to his hometown and begins peeling away at the truth of what happened twenty years earlier. He also meets up with his estranged father (George Shevtsov), an alcoholic retired cop, and former childhood friend Barry (Malcolm Kennard, from the recent Pawno), who is also deeply troubled and whose life has fallen apart. This revelation sends Bower on a journey back to his small rural hometown of False Creek, where he begins to probe the past and resolve his troubling visions. He learns that they all died on the same date way back in 1987. But before you can say The Sixth Sense, writer/director Michael Petroni takes the material in a slightly different direction.īower begins to investigate and discovers that all of his freaky patients are actually dead people who are trying to tell him something. Bower soon realises that he is seeing dead people, and begins to question his own sanity. He also receives spooky and unsettling visits from a silent young girl named Elizabeth Valentine, who mysteriously appears and disappears. And he believes that it is 1987 and Ronald Reagan is still US President. Like Felix (veteran Bruce Spence), a jazz musician who claims to be playing in a club that closed down years ago. Troubled psychologist Peter Bower (played by Oscar winner Adrien Brody, from The Pianist) is still grieving the tragic loss of his daughter in a road accident when he starts to realise that many of his patients are acting strangely. The film explores themes of grief, redemption, loss, forgiveness, and confronting the ghosts of the past. Backtrack is an atmospheric Aussie psychological thriller with supernatural undertones that borrows elements from the superior The Sixth Sense and Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, among others.
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