I love Australian movies. Not just because I’m Australian but because we make great films. This review was originally published on the MovieHooker.com website, however, I secured a one-on-one interview with the very awesome Clayton Jacobson so I wanted to have the review from the Brothers’ Nest director on Mother of Movies too.

In this fantastic thriller with a horrific finale, the two lead characters are actually brothers. They bounce off each other with a familiarity normally unseen in a film like this. One half of the duo is the driving force behind the film. This is not Clayton Jacobson’s first rodeo as director and it shows. Brothers’ Nest is not Clayton and Shane’s first movie together either. They previously starred in a cult hit favorite called Kenny (2006) a comedy about porta-loos.

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Shane Jacobson and Clayton Jacobson

What’s Brothers Nest About?

Simply put, two brothers plan a murder. If you plan it well, it can’t go wrong…right?

A Black Comedy | Crime Thriller | AUSTRALIAN MOVIE

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Australian Movies Are Great, Here’s the Trailer

Brothers’ Nest trailer

Brothers’ Nest (Australian Movies)

Director: Clayton Jacobson.

Clayton Jacobson. Writer: Jaime Browne.

Jaime Browne. Release: Australian movie release in May 2018.

Australian movie release in May 2018. Budget: $1.9 million.

$1.9 million. Starring: Shane Jacobson (That’s Not My Dog 2018), Clayton Jacobson (Upgrade 2018), Kim Gyngell (The Little Death 2014), Lynette Curran (These Final Hours 2013) and, Sarah Snook (Predestination 2014).

Brothers’ Nest, Australian Movies Done Right

When it comes to planning a murder, Terry and Jeff seem to have all their bases covered. If the devil’s in the details then there is surely enough devil to go around between these two brothers. This Australian movie is a hidden gem and you simply must give it some time.

Brother’s Nest is pretty much a slow burn where the entirety of the first chunk goes towards watching just how much thought has gone into the process of knocking off their step-dad while mum is having chemo. Right as I was choking on my popcorn at this unsavory turn in story-line and starting to think this might not be for me, I was torn. I couldn’t look away. Here are these two guys, obviously horrible people dressed in orange suits to cover their tracks and I wanted to know why.

Brothers’ Nest strings you along like some lover you once met in a bar who never called you back. The intricate breadcrumbs are dropped along a pathway of a haunting re-enactment of sibling rivalry at it’s very worst. Jeff is somehow like a ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ champion and the snowball begins to build. You can feel it getting bigger as the time ticks by.

Character Narration Done Right

For me, each and every character are people I had seen before but never in roles like this. Kim Gyngell who plays Roger is a well-known television personality here in Australia and seeing him as the villain for the very first time was as odd as it was appealing. The score intermittently screeching to the forefront from time to time was amazingly suitable and added an extra helping of disapproval to Jeff and Terry’s predicament.

Like every film, before it to include a slow burn and an ever-increasing amount of tension, was the payoff good enough to support the rest of the story? Yes it was and it was perfectly summarised by the following phrase;

“Just some family shit”

If you want to see a fantastic Australian thriller movie made on the sniff of an oily rag then see this one.

I give Brothers’ Nest

4.5 antique radios in the bathtub out of 5.