Cane Toads: The Conquest 3D
DOCUMENTARIES
Director: Mark Lewis.
Australia, 2010.
85 mins. English
In 1988, Mark Lewis brought us CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST, highlighting the disastrous impact of a rather unpleasant amphibian on the fragile Australian ecosystem.
Imported from Hawaii as a potential predator for a pest afflicting sugar cane crops, the giant, poisonous-skinned toads turned out to be a far worse problem, ignoring the grubs they were brought in to control and eating just about everything else instead, breeding out of control.
22 years on, Lewis picks up the story in this irreverent eco-horror documentary charting the toad’s unstoppable march across the continent.
The first independently financed documentary ever to be shot in 3D, Lewis’s film demonstrates several inventive ways for dealing with these oversized pests, including cricket bats, lawn mowers and rockets – but with the cane toad population estimated at 1.5 billion, there’s still some way to go.
Imported from Hawaii as a potential predator for a pest afflicting sugar cane crops, the giant, poisonous-skinned toads turned out to be a far worse problem, ignoring the grubs they were brought in to control and eating just about everything else instead, breeding out of control.
22 years on, Lewis picks up the story in this irreverent eco-horror documentary charting the toad’s unstoppable march across the continent.
The first independently financed documentary ever to be shot in 3D, Lewis’s film demonstrates several inventive ways for dealing with these oversized pests, including cricket bats, lawn mowers and rockets – but with the cane toad population estimated at 1.5 billion, there’s still some way to go.
Screenings
Cineworld
Thursday 22 September, 8:30PM
Reviews
Cane Toads: The Conquest 3D by Chiara
23 Sep 2011
Absolutely brilliant film.
An incredibly rare mix of being hysterically...
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