“They reckon a dingo took my mate… I’ve never seen a dingo with tits like that…” Triple M’s Merrick & The Highway Patrol are sure to escalate ‘The Nullabor Nymph’ movie to the legendary status it deserves, with their red carpet premiere event scheduled for this week. Ater being promoted on Triple M last week, the movie session sold out in just twenty minutes, making it their fastest selling session ever, according to Hoyts.
Merrick & The Highway Patrol discovered the piece of “cinema genius” and are throwing the film a full scale VIP premiere at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter in Sydney this Tuesday 22 May. See the preview at the bottom of this page.
Australia jumped right on the bandwagon when tickets went on sale during the Highway Patrol drive show. The event will be hosted by Merrick Watts, Julian Schiller and Rachel Corbett, and will include Sydney’s A list and the film’s cast and crew.
The Nullarbor Nymph was made in the small Aussie town of Ceduna and stars mainly local farmers. The film’s director had to clean toilets for months to raise the 25k to finance the film.
It has the dubious honour of being turned away from every film festival in Australia.
The mocumentary film follows two men as they travel across the Nullarbor Plain only to be hunted down by the mythological creature the Nullarbor Nymph, a blonde, seductive temptress wearing kangaroo skins with a taste for the unmentionable.
Merrick, Rach & Jules have told radioinfo: “It’s like Red Dog without the budget. It’s the Castle without the memorable quotes. It’s Wolf Creek with tits.”
‘The Nullarbor Nymph’ originates from supposed sightings of a half naked woman living amongst kangaroos on the Nullarbor Plain, which was a hoax perpetrated in Australia between 1971 and 1972.
The first report on 26 December 1971 was by kangaroo shooters from Eucla in Western Australia near the border or South Australia. They claimed to have seen a blonde, white woman amongst some kangaroos, and backed their story with grainy amateur film showing a woman wearing kangaroo skins and holding a kangaroo by the tail.
After further sightings were claimed, the story was reported around the world, and journalists descended upon the town of Eucla which had a population of eight people at the time.
The incident was eventually revealed as a hoax, initiated as a publicity stunt. The girl on film turned out to be a 17-year-old model named Janice Beeby.