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"Suburban Mayhem" is a sexy black comedy drama which tells the story of Katrina Skinner, a 19-year-old single mum who plans to get away with murder. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars,...( read more 
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MCT:May 31, 2008Katrina is brilliantly played by Emily Barclay as she progresses from master manipulator to psychopath. The fact that the film is filmed like a documentary at times adds to the realism of this self proclaimed true story apparently based on domestic violence in Australian suburbs.
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MCT:March 19, 2008
An amusing 'slice of life' drama/thriller from Australia. Very much like a soap opera crossed with a wannabe thriller. Enjoyable, with a decent little story, but there is only so much bitchiness one can take. The lead (Emily Barclay) is pretty sexy... at first, but her behaviour makes her very ugly, very quickly. The murder/mystery ending is fun, but a bit contrived. Ultimately, I can't review this without revealing the ending. You have to appreciate the turmoils of parenthood while watching this, especially if Katrina (the lead), was your daughter.
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MCT:February 3, 2008Want to see at some point in the future...
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MCT:January 9, 2008CHaala baagundi...ee movie ..meeru choostaaru ga..
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MCT:January 8, 2008
I think I read about the scriptwriter back when she first got noticed, maybe about a year ago?? The story doesn't sound like something I'd watch, but I'm a little intrigued due to the background of the film.
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MCT:November 3, 2007
Emily Barclay has cool tattoos. In real life. At the big day out she has this cool gigantic one on her leg. I just remember thinking I wanted one too. Besides kind of being in the same social circles, we have never met. Still weird to see her totally naked... like accidentally catching your parents or your mate in the act... just a little bit disturbing. I didn't expect that at all. And here I was bragging about how much nude scenes aren't really a big fuss in one of my other reviews...so about the movie...
I loved the dynamic between her and Matthew McFadyen's character in In My Father's Den. Since then I've seen very little of Barclay and was quite excited she was in this new project playing a completely different and adult character. Well, in many ways adult and in others a child. I love her character's refusal to accept responsibility for her actions and her blatant sadistic behaviour towards others.
Michael Dorman, I loved from The Secret Life of Us, and in this film he's really heartbreakingly sweet and naive - he seems to have his head screwed on - but Miss Manipulation is his number one crush so he is determined to do whatever she wants. Even if it includes taking the baby around the streets at night for some wheelies in the car.
The humour was great. I didn't think it was going to be funny despite all that suggested it would be - white trash australia with mullet cuts and long nails. 'White trash' seems to be a universal concept - completely relevant in all parts of the Western World...
I might be starting to go off on a rant...
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MCT:September 9, 2007
What really cought my eye with this movie was the cover of the DVD and so I picked it up and began to read. It sounded like an interesting plot, and once more I was interested that it was an Aussie film.
I dont know where to start with this. The film begins with some black comedy, and is truely dark and disturbing by the end. There is some interesting cinematography and editing techniques.
Emily Berclay as Katrina is excellent. I have never seen or heard of here before but she plays the role so well which really helps in some powerful and disturbing scenes.
This isnt a movie I would own, but it was interesting and disturbing to watch at the same time. A good Aussie drama, which is scary to think is inspired by actual events, and bad to think there are people out there like Katrina. -
MCT:July 12, 2007Emily Barclay is excellent as a teenager who takes her life into her own hands and doesn't give a shit who she takes down in the process. Mired by an anti-climatic third act.
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MCT:June 17, 2007
Quite a decent, if not scary film noir. Interestingly shot with some create cinematographic moments.
Katrina, the 19 year old lead character, is one of the scariest people I've come across in film, and her grip on reality is quite disturbing.
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MCT:April 26, 2007
This film is a great roller-coaster ride from start to finish - starting out as a black comedy and becoming more and more dark towards the end.
It's because Katrina has no redeeming features and no moral boundaries that makes this film such a great watch. She will literally do anything to get what she wants, and we can only watch in amazement as she succeeds! Just like the film, she's brash, cocky, sexy, and very entertaining - a brilliant central character who Emily Barclay plays perfectly. You watch in disbelief as she calmly gets away with everything. I know it doesn't have the highest production values in the world but the way it's shot, through a series of real time interviews and flashbacks, gives the movie an energy that is lacking in so many films today. its pretty much a current affair on acid! -
MCT:April 23, 2007
This film is just GREAT! Although I couldn't find it in Spanish, I took it in original version and it was just GREAT! I still miss the end. Maybe, when I finish the movie, I will have to make up my mind and give it a 5 star!! lol
I was right! this is a five star! Amazing ending! What would we do for love? -
MCT:April 21, 2007
Oh man, Aussie actress Emily Barclay makes a fantastic performance as a rebellion single mother in this sexy black comedy-crime thriller film and she looks bloody hot in her mini-shirt... hell in high heels.
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MCT:March 26, 2007
This very entretainingly funny black comedy/crime/drama is about Katrina (Emily Braclay) a surburban femme fatale and slutty single mum who vows to get her criminal brother, who decapitated a convenience store clerk, out of jail even if she has to commit murder. This film is stylishly directed, has a solid screenplay and a great cast but the film really belongs to Emily Barclay who is terrific as Katrina, she is definitely one chick you don't want to mess with. Check it out if you can.
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MCT:March 23, 2007
Ok - second time around commenting - I hate it when flixster doesn't save your comments. Suburban Mayhem marks another star performance from Emily Barclay (NZ's best talent atm imo) as Katrina, a young mum living in the burbs of NSW. We meet her doing a TV interview in regards to the death of her father and her role as her suspect - which quickly sets up her penchant for fame and notoriety. The movie begins as a black comedy, laughing at the sheer insanity of her upbringing and the stuff she gets up to but later on in the movie when we see her manipulating her brothers old friend into killing a friends dog and leaving her baby with an aquaintance to go on a 3day bender.. it's a bit more in the realm of social realism which put me in an uncomfortable headspace. I still really like the movie though, just thought it lost it's way from what it set out to be at the beginning of the movie. I must mention how good Emily Barclay is again - she's going places.
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MCT:November 29, 2006It's wrong, but the evil and insane Katrina was enormous fun to watch. I love it that finally an Australian comedy (and it is) can go really, really dark, rather than just glorifying the Aussie battler. Yes, Kenny, I'm looking at you.
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MCT:November 11, 2006
At the centre of all the mayhem in Paul Goldman's wild ride of a film is Katrina (Emily Barclay), a 19-year-old devil with cleavage who will stop at nothing to get her way. The ugly face of modern times, she has an insatiable need to be the centre of attention and all who cross her path are doomed.
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