- HD 1080
- Runtime: 80m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Australia
- Director: Josh Reed
- Stars: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel, Damien Freeleagus, Rebekah Foord
- keywords: australia, cave painting, transformation, black magic, elimination derby
- Production_studio: Primal Films
- Slogan: Evil Lies Within
- providers: AMC+ Amazon Channel
- The Primal is featured in the top rankings of 2010
- #94 in Top Horror Movies of 2010
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.