These Final Hours
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| Directed by | Zak Hilditch |
| Produced by | Liz Kearney |
| Written by | Zak Hilditch |
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| Music by | Cornel Wilczek |
| Cinematography | Bonnie Elliott |
| Edited by | Nick Meyers |
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| Distributed by | Roadshow Films |
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87 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million |
| Box office | $360,234 (Australia) |
These Final Hours is a 2013 Australian apocalyptic thriller film written and directed by Zak Hilditch. It was selected to be screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It stars Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice, Jessica De Gouw, Daniel Henshall, and Kathryn Beck.
The film takes place in Perth, and begins ten minutes after a meteor has collided with earth in the North Atlantic, leaving approximately twelve hours until the subsequent global firestorm reaches Western Australia. James and his lover, Zoe, are having sex for the last time at her beach house, where she reveals that she's pregnant with James' child. Not wanting to feel his inevitable death, James disregards Zoe's news and leaves for "the party to end all parties". After having his car stolen, he comes across two men who have kidnapped a young girl and are planning to rape her. James kills them, and rescues the girl. The girl, named Rose, explains that she was separated from her father in Malaga en route to her aunt's house in Roleystone. Not wanting to waste petrol, James instead plans to leave her with his sister and her children. But upon arriving, he finds his sister and her husband dead in the shower, and three crosses marking what appears to be his nieces' graves, in what is an apparent murder suicide.
James then heads to the party, with Rose in tow. The party is overflowing with people, a game of Russian roulette is being played, and an orgy is going on inside the house. James meets with the host of the party, Freddy, whose sister is James' girlfriend, Vicki. James leaves Rose in the pool while a heavily intoxicated Vicki shows him a bunker built underneath Freddy's garage. Emotional and angry, he tells her it won't work and that they will all die anyway, committing himself to reuniting Rose with her family. This upsets Vicki, and James's thoughts on the bunker anger Freddy. Meanwhile, outside, a drug-affected woman follows Rose, claiming that she is her daughter, Mandy. She coerces Rose into taking an ecstasy pill, claiming that she can help Rose find her family.
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