By Travis Johnson
Following her bravura feature debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour returns with this sexed-up, sadistic tale of apocalyptic cannibalism and too-cool-for-school road movie stylings.
Newcomer Suki Waterhouse is the enigma at the centre of the action, being orbited by the likes of Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi and, yes, even Jim Carrey. Plotwise, the film sees Waterhouse’s drifter run afoul of a tribe of muscled-up man-eaters in a patch of Texas abandoned by US authorities – shades of Mad Max or even Dead End Drive-In, perhaps?
While The Bad Batch is set for a June release in the US, no Australian distributor has yet to set a local release date, but c’mon – there’s a fervent cult audience for this kind of thing, and some bold visionary will stump up for it soon.
