The Horror! The Horror!: Tasmania's Cannibal History on the Silver Screen

The story of Alexander Pearce, Van Diemen's Land convict and cannibal, has moved from the recesses of Australia's dark colonial past to popular culture. What duty do filmmakers have to history? Carly Millar assesses three new film productions that tell the Pearce tale –...Dying Breed (Jody Dwyer, 2008), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (Michael James Rowland, 2008) and Hell's Gates (Jonathan Auf der Heide, 2007).