Despite a lack of support from exhibitors, low budget croc thriller Black Water has had a strong opening, taking just over $17,000 on three Darwin screens last weekend.
After screening in the UK, Poland, Mexico and Malaysia, croc thriller Black Water will finally make its debut in the filmmakers� home city of Sydney in a special screening presented by the Australian Writers� Guild.
YouTube viewers have pushed the viral videos made by Black Water co-director David Nerlich to over one million hits, only eight months after they were posted online.
Studiocanal's road rage thriller 'Unhinged' was the top choice again for cinemagoers in its second weekend while R&R Films' 'Black Water: Abyss', director Andrew Traucki’s sequel to his 2007 cult-horror 'Black Water', had a limited release in Oz and the US.
Three Aussie movies battled it out on the weekend against Battle: Los Angeles
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Producer Michael Robertson and director Andrew Traucki are in the enviable position of having covered three-quarters of the budget of Black Water: The Abyss five months before shooting is due to start.
Jessica McNamee and Luke Mitchell are playing an adventure-loving couple who get trapped in a flooded cave and are attacked by killer crocodiles in Andrew Traucki's survival thriller Black Water: Abyss.