What we see and what we seem are but a dream - a dream within a dream.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) 

Dir- Peter Weir
In 1900, a Valentines Day picnic for an Australian girl’s school turns into tragedy after a teacher and three students disappeared while exploring a nearby rock formation. The disappearance will cause tension in the school and raise more questions when one girl is found yet can’t explain her experience.  Based on a 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock was filmed in Australia and utilized the Hanging Rock formation located in Victoria most effectively. Picnic sets an atmosphere that showcases the vast difference between the sexually repressed Victorian lifestyle of the young students with the foreboding mystery of the new and unknown land. More a mystery than horror, Picnic at Hanging Rock makes practical use of the strange rock formation and flute music to set an atmosphere of beauty and dread. As a child, I remember watching the preview for the movie, and it was terrifying yet when I watched the movie years later it was mysterious, haunting yet beautiful in its direction.