| Pandemonium | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Haydn Keenan |
| Written by | Peter Gailey Haydn Keenan |
| Produced by | Alex Cutler Haydn Keenan |
| Starring | David Argue Esben Storm Gary Foley |
| Cinematography | David Sanderson |
| Edited by | Paul Healy |
| Music by | Cameron Allan |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$600,000 [1] |
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Raised by a family of dingoes, a young feral girl heads for Babylon, Australia to find her family, only to find that her mother is not all she seems.
Australian film critic Michael Adams later included Pandemonium on his list of the worst ever Australian films, along with Phantom Gold , The Glenrowan Affair , Houseboat Horror , Welcome to Woop Woop , Les Patterson Saves the World and The Pirate Movie . [4]
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