Weekend Healer

A haunting getaway led by some of the strongest performances you'll see coming out from Perth, WA.

Weekend Healer tracks a couple's fight to steady their turbulent relationship as they reach ends meet with their recluse host... and bandits. The minimalist filmmaking approach serves as a charming vehicle to the lives of Katie and Mark's relationship, grounding the relationship in a sense of hyperrealism while inviting horror conventions to be toyed with in a refreshing and down right entertaining way.

Weekend Healer is a trip not to miss.

This film is awesome! A triumph of low budget filmmaking and a joy to watch throughout. Nick Pages-Oliver is on fire in this. As Robert Livings 2nd feature, this solidified for me that every project he works on will have his magic touch, and he's got a great career ahead of him.

Weekend Healer is a subtle and thoughtfully told relationship drama. It's a slow burn with a litany of plot & character metaphors. If you're in the mood for a more engaged experience, this might be the movie for you. The film is understated in all of its elements, and they all go hand in hand with one another, even to the point of the color.

I still don't know if its a comedy or a thriller but it'll have you on the edge glued to your screen the whole ride! Both hilarious and suspenseful. The acting and direction is amazing, it'll make you rethink relationships, it'll make you uncomfortably awkward but you're not going to want to leave! Totally recommend/10.

A very interesting and deeply uncomfortable film. This has a unique blend of an intense relationship drama, in the vein of Blue Valentine, with major horror vibes. It plays with the 'isolated couple in the woods' sub-genre of horror in very effective ways, as the deterioration of the central couples relationship is set against the backdrop of paranoia and a potentially malevolent external force. Scenes are given lots of time to develop, usually slowly spiralling to a point of pure excruciating discomfort, that on occasion I actively had to stand up from my sofa and do a silly little walk around my living room. The line between well executed direction, performance improvisation and a naturalistic script is blurred to a point that I don't know where to put my compliments. All of those things I guess. Standout performance for me was Nick Pages-Oliver, such a great presence. Only criticism, I probably could have stayed in this world an extra 20 mins or so. Well done to the filmmakers involved.