Please don't spend money on this.

Just what I expected

Brilliant and touching

An Exercise In Nonsense

Katrina Skinner (Emily Barclay) was accused of killing her father and she is free. This is the story as to what really happened told as a flashback. Katrina is very manipulative. She loves her brother Danny (Laurence Breuls) almost in an unhealthy way. She wants to get money for an appeal for a murder he committed. She has a daughter which she pawns off on everyone, yet wants to be with her when she wants to be with her. She uses her raw sexuality to get what she wants, although she never seems happy.Cult film. "dark comedy" Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Emily Barclay).

Suburban Mayhem is just what the title promises, as nineteen year old single mom, Katrina, views the world as her oyster, taking from it anything she wants. Her dad wants her to get a job, as he is the one supporting her and her baby. She resents him to the point of having him killed so that she will inherit his house. Her brother is in jail for murder, and she wanders from man to man in casual sexual encounters, dressed in tight black leather mini-skirts and boots, while others watch her little one. The biggest problem is that I never cared what happened to Katrina, as she is a completely unlikeable human being, with no redeeming qualities, and very average looks. Emily Barclay does a fine job portraying the trailer trash vixen, but the music blasts throughout this unhappy social drama, and by the time it mercifully ended, I had a headache. The movie is loosely based on a true crime case which is well known in Australia. I would prefer to see a documentary, using the real life people involved. Erol Morris, are you listening?

Katrina (Emily Barcley) is a sad, pathetic, utterly narcissistic young unwed child neglecting mother. The only true love of her life, her brother, has been sent to prison for beheading some poor convenience store attendant, and she's angry about that. Angry enough to do something drastic.This film was competent enough and kept my interest, but the main characters are so completely devoid of likability or sympathy that it's too hard to empathize with them. There for I didn't get invested in them, much less give a toss about what they were doing. It's marginally well acted and all that, but I just didn't care.Eye Candy: Emily Barclay provides the T&A My Grade: C-

Paul Goldman and Alice Bell's mockumentary "Suburban Mayhem" starts off with some measure of interest in its subjects' state of arrested development, but manages to fracture its focus into different pieces before it's through. The Aussie production does allude to its working class suburb's infant terrible syndrome, channeling the seminal "Romper Stomper" well enough by juggling murder, delinquency and a hefty pacing of sex, drugs and roll 'n' roll. However, setting the stage just doesn't cut it when the noxious characters woefully expose its wafer-thin plotting. Goldman's self-satisfied intentions are made clear enough and tacky dinner-table transgressions aside; the film's black comedy routine is merely discernible at best but it's just not particularly biting or droll. Katrina (Emily Barclay), its patricidal, chain-smoking femme fatale shoulders the film's best scenes despite the young character's tendency to regress into a badge for its director to smugly flash about as the latest and loudest provocateur of Australia's idyllic suburbia.