DEAD CALM (1989)

Director: Phillip Noyce

Writer: Terry Hayes

Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram
Sam Neil as John Ingram
Billie Zane as Hugh

A taut psychological thriller that provides many scary moments and good suspense throughout. An Australian film with an international vibe, it's quality cinema that, at the time it was released, marked the ever-increasing confidence of Australian directors and actors to take on material which is genre-based, rather than self-consciously 'Australian'.