Back From The Dead (1996)

Country of Origin: Australia
Year of Production: 1996
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: colour     videotape
Ratio: 4:3
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Pocket Money Productions Tasmania
Producers: Craig Godfrey
Co-Producers: Tony Francis, Mark Tomlinson

SCRIPT
Script: Craig Godfrey

DIRECTION
Director: Craig Godfrey
1st Assistant Director: Angela Franca-Meloni

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mark Tomlinson
2nd Unit Camera / Grip: Ken Robinson
Gaffer: Gordon Nutt
Best Boy: Red Beard
Grip Assistant: Michael Jordan
Camera Assistant: Scott Harwood
Stills: Ken Mellers (thanks Walter)

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Dan Yeomans
Assisted By: Paul Yeomans, Jim Henry
Edited At: Winning Post Productions, Tasmania

MUSIC
Music / Performed By: Tony Francis
Song: Tony Brennan (Wapping Song)
Song Performed By: Tony Brennan, Damian Stolp (Wapping Song)

SOUND
Sound Recordists / Editors: Sonic Solutions
Sound Editor: Stewart Long
Assisted By: George Goerss, Mal Huddleston, Wayne Rowlands

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Liz Goulding of Making Faces
Location Make Up: Nicole Frith
Location Make Up Assistant: Tracey Mcnamara
Period Wardrobe: Kate Stephens
Period Uniforms Made By: Rose Solomon

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Fly Blown Torso FX
Computer Graphics: Kevin Gleeson of Imagine It
Pyro Technician: Werner Ihlenfeld
Assisted By: Simon James

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Liz Goulding
Props Makers: Ken Godfrey, Glen Clarke
Props Painter: Noel Hammersley-Cave
Set Builders: Jon Bowling (Aspect Design), Bob Dicakson (Half Twist Design)
Carpenters and Painters: Tim Allen, Red Beard, Richard Bladel, Noel Hammersley-Cave, Mark Linhart, George Sutherland, Andy Machen
Specialty Set Painter: Michael Sladd
Art Department: Tony Francis, Andy Machen

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Angela Franca-Meloni
Caterer: Marcus Marriot
Best Bonk: Ivor Bigsnatch

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Cheers To: Pullers Arms boozers
Many Thanks To: Nigel Kidd, the 'Gildert and Sullivan Performers' and all those wonderful extras who helped create old Wapping Town lynch mob
Many, Many Thanks To: Leonie Godfrey, Andy Machin, Guardians of the Historic Site of Port Arthur, The Astor Grill, Hobart City Council, Cascade Brewery, Playhouse Theatre, Glen and Rose, Southern Cross Network, Ken and Dorothy Godfrey, Grant Godfrey, Francis Family, Machin Family, Mellers Family, Scott Reynolds, Advantage Tours Port Arthur, Lee Hobba, David Stewart Autos, Tasmania Police, Melissa, Scofield, Wreckair, Tas Medical Supplies, Jerry Stam, Grove Country Meats, Fisheries, Tony Fox, Brent Fraser, ABC Television, WIN TV

STUNTS
Stunt Driver: Craig Sehre

CAST
Tim Aris (Kavendish / Corbet)
Genevieve Morris (Ruby)
John Xintavelonis (professor)
Josephine Lee (mother)
Chris Baz (Lunas)
Graham Richards (Cecil)
Sybil Edwards (Sky)
Luke Swan (Fish)
David Hadley, Marcus Marriot, Collin Dean, Paul Cooper, Asley Law (Port Arthur guards)
Gareth John, Ian Gordon, Franz Docherty, Michael Hibbert (guards with stretcher)
Michael Lowenstein, Philip Stary, Werner Ihlenfeld, Peter Miller (guard house guards)
Kate Chessells (Astor Grill waitress)
Bob Dickason (dentist)
Col Machen (patient)
Max Keal (ukulele player)
Brierlie Godfrey (cart girl)
Noel Hammersley-Cave (whaler)
Rick Mourant (squashed convict)
Red Beard (shit bucket man)
The Volunteer Artillery (red coats)
Craig Anderson (innkeeper)
Allulshus Wong (Chinaman)
Brad Wilson (thug)
Shenna Franklin (maid)
Sebastian Godfrey (innkeeper's son)
Kevin Williams (horseman)
Duke (horse)
Mal Huddleston (surgeon)
Rene Knott (chicken plucker)
Roy Goode (drunk)
Geoff Stubbings (policeman)
Michael Sladd (butcher)
Paul Beard (blacksmith)
Tony Brennan, Damian Stolp, Michael Fortesque, drummer (God bless, whoever you are!) (pub band)
Danny James, Carl Pepper, Mal Huddleston, Kenny 'The Wonderdog' Robinson, Richard Pepper, Roy James, Paul County, Pamela John, Col Machen, Ben Chaffey (lynch mob)
Gail Friswell (landlady)
Tildy Platt (Corbet's mum)
Anthony Harwood (little Corbet)
Grant Godfrey (doctor)
Minka Gillian, Lyndall Pitchford, Jane Anderson (prostitutes)
Betty Davidson (fortune teller)
Greg Hind (busker)
Marcus Marriot (pizza porker)
John Fisher, Greg Hall (truckies)
Kate Johnson, Roy Gilbert, Brierlie Godfrey, Jackie Moore (ghosts)

June 1837: mass murderer Kavendish escapes from the Port Arthur penal colony and, after committing several acts of murder and cannibalism, vanishes...

Present Day: A scientist and his student are experimenting with past life regression, using the dim-witted Corbet as their subject but the spirit of Kavendish lives on and possesses Corbet, leading to more violence and brutal death.

A quite dreadful shot-on-video monstrosity that tries to emulate the good-natured gross-out comedy of Peter Jackson's earlier work and fails dismally on all counts. The humour is witless in the extreme and the hopeless 'special effects' are actually a lot funnier. It ends, after the final credits, with the caption: "Wind it back, it's better the second time." Trust us, it's not. That the film remains so obscure is hardly surprising - you may not have seen this one and to be perfectly honest, you're really not missing anything at all...

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DVD Distributor: Dragon Film Entertainment (DFE DVD 10)

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convicts, ghosts, nazis, possession, prison breaks, revenge, scientists

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009