Acolytes

James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They’re going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest – the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl – 17 year old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It’s suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they bring shovels to exhume what will probably be rotting garbage or someone’s dead pet – or so they tell themselves. They find the ghostly white body of a woman. She’s a tourist – a Canadian backpacker. The “trench” is a grave. The “adult male” is her killer. And they’ve got him by the balls. Responding to Mark’s intimations James floats an idea to seek out “the sicko”. It’ll be a bit of fun. He’s confident the guy lives in their suburb; Mark saw his car parked on a …

• Anthony Phelan
• Belinda McClory
• Bella Heathcote
• Danny Baldwin
• Hanna Mangan Lawrence
• Harley Bennick
• Holly Baldwin
• Joel Edgerton
• Joshua Payne
• Leigh Prewecki
• Michael Dorman
• Ryan Sheldrake
• Sebastian Gregory
• Sue Dwyer
• Todd Levi