Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
Bastyan Dam, located at Lake Rosebery in Tullah, is the shooting location for the death scene on the high bridge at the end of the film. It is a composite location as CGI and cutaways are used to create a sense of space that is unrealistic in relation to the actual rail bridge.
Shooting Locations
Bastyan Dam, Lake Rosebery, Tullah, South West Wilderness, Tasmania
A composite of CGI and cutaways of an actual rail bridge were used to create a sense of space distinct from the actual shooting location.
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
At the beginning of the film aerial shots show the characters travelling by car along Lake Plimsoll toward the Pieman River.
Shooting Locations
Lake Plimsoll, South West Wilderness, Tasmania
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Temporal setting: January Circa 2008
Location notes:
Mackintosh Dam is the shooting location of the misty scene early in the film where the characters travel by boat through a graveyard of sunken trees in search of the Tasmanian Tiger.
Shooting Locations
Mackintosh Dam, Tullah, South West Wilderness, Tasmania
Mackintosh Dam is the shooting location of the misty scene early in the film where the characters travel by boat through a graveyard of sunken trees in search of the Tasmanian Tiger.
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
The Fatman Barge at the Pieman River crossing near Corinna and historic gravesites on the south riverbank feature in Dying Breed as the travellers visit the backwater hillbilly town called Sarah (named after Sarah Island, from which the cannibal convict Alexander Pearce escaped).
Shooting Locations
Pieman River, North West, Tasmania
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
At the beginning of the film, when Nina and Matt fly to Australia and meet up with Jack for the first time, they have a beer and plan the expedition in search of the Tasmanian Tiger. While the scene is set in Hobart, it is shot at the Water Rat Hotel in Melbourne.
Shooting Locations
The Water Rat Hotel, Melbourne, Melbourne region, Victoria
The "pub scene" at the beginning of the film was shot at The Water Rat Hotel, 256 Moray St, South Melbourne.
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
Dying Breed features a fiction township called 'Sarah', located in Tasmania's South-West.
Shooting Locations
Coal Creek Village in Korumburra in Gippsland, Victoria, East Melbourne, Victoria
Parts of Coal Creek Heritage Village in Korumburra, Gippsland were used as shooting locations for the fictional township of Sarah.
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
Murchison Dam is the shooting location for the scene where the characters have gone too far in their boat, overshooting the mark as they search for the Tasmanian Tiger. They reach the spillway and have to turn back. Behind them a mysterious figure watches from the mist on the spillway.
Shooting Locations
Murchison Dam Spillway, near Rosebury, South West Wilderness, Tasmania
Murchison Dam is the shooting location for the scene where the characters have gone too far in their boat, overshooting the mark as they search for the Tasmanian Tiger. They reach the spillway and have to turn back.
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Temporal setting: Circa 2008
Location notes:
The Zeehan Spray Tunnel is the location the protagonists travel through to get to the wilderness hut where Nathan Phillips's character gets caught in the man trap.
Shooting Locations
Spray Tunnel Road, Zeehan, South West Wilderness, Tasmania
The Zeehan Spray Tunnel was shot on location but crew covered one end to make the tunnel appear longer that it really is.
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