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The King Is Dead
Max (Dan Wyllie), science teacher, and his wife Therese (Bojana Novakovic), tax accountant, take extreme measures to deal with their loud, lowlife neighbor, a drug dealer who originates many troubles.
1970, Australia
17 November 1981, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
21 September 1977, Brisbane, Australia
24 November 1978, Adelaide, Australia
1 March 1972, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
23 September 1973, Australia
7 August 1952, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
July 16, 2012
The King is Dead has some great comic asides, and the finale paints Max and Therese into a genuinely dangerous and entertaining corner.
October 17, 2013
The screenplay comes with a wealth of comical gags and observations about suburban life that many audiences should identify with.
July 16, 2012
The King is Dead! is a deliciously dark genre mash-up, coy and explorative but tight and insular, sprayed with wry laughs and a genuinely foreboding undertone.
July 13, 2012
Black comedies rarely come as carefully measured or as full-blooded as this marvellously engaging lark, which is essentially a revenge fantasy for anyone who has ever suffered the prolonged trauma of living with a bad neighbour.
July 24, 2012
The King is Dead!, while not as brilliant as Bad Boy Bubby or Alexandra's Project, shares with those films a unique and perverse vision of Australian suburbia ... De Heer's always bold, and here he's bold again. The Independent King is certainly not dead.
September 27, 2012
If this film had a more propulsive plot, veered into Straw Dogs territory and retained its dark laughs, I imagine we would be talking about an Australian classic.
