The atmospheric style and boldly ambiguous storytelling of “Picnic at Hanging Rock” have made it extremely influential over the years. Based on a novel by Joan Lindsey, the film is about a ...

Directed by Peter Weir and based on a novel by Australian writer Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is the story of a group of schoolgirls who head to an Australian landmark for a picnic ...

St Valentine’s Day 1900 sees three students and one teacher from the prestigious all-girls’ Appleyard College vanish on an excursion to Hanging Rock, a geological formation not far from Melbourne.

It might not be an overstatement to claim that Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of the most haunting films ever made. Sure, the 1975 film lacks all the stereotypical elements of the horror ...