''Coda'' is a 1987 Australian
made-for-TV
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horror mystery film
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directed by
Craig Lahiff
Craig Lahiff (23 April 1947 – 2 February 2014) was an Australian film director. He grew up in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park, South Australia, Somerton Park and studied science at Adelaide University, then trained as a systems consultan ...
who described it as "very much a telefilm. I suppose it's very Hitchcocky - and de Palma inspired." It was the first of three films Lahiff had arranged finance for which were made in succession. The film focuses on a serial killer targeting female university students.
It was shot on location at
Flinders University
Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
on 16mm and features women in all the lead roles.
[Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p27]
Cast
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Penny Cook
Penelope Cook (13 July 1957 – 26 December 2018) was an Australian actress, stage director, TV presenter and writer. She played roles in the soap opera ''A Country Practice'', as Vicki Dean Bowen from 1981 to 1985, '' E Street'' as lead anchor-c ...
as Kate Martin
*Arna-Maria Winchester as Dr. Steiner
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Liddy Clark
Elizabeth Anne Clark (born 6 November 1953 in Adelaide, South Australia), is an Australian former politician with the Labor Party in the Queensland Legislature who held the seat for Clayfield and also an actress of television and film, director ...
as Sally Reid
*Patrick Frost as Mike Martin
*Vivienne Greaves as Anna
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Olivia Hamnett
Olivia Jane Hamnett (1942/1943 – 2 November 2001) was an English actress known for numerous television roles in Australia, primarily in soap operas and miniseries. including '' The Sullivans'' as Meg Fulton in 1979, in ''Prisoner'' as Dr. K ...
as Det. Sgt. Turner
*Adrian Shirley as a real estate agent
*Bob Newman as a psychiatrist
References
External links
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''Coda''at Oz Movies
1987 television films
1987 films
1987 horror films
1980s horror thriller films
1987 independent films
1980s mystery films
1980s mystery thriller films
1980s psychological thriller films
1980s serial killer films
1980s slasher films
Australian independent films
Australian slasher films
Australian thriller films
Films about miscarriage of justice
Films set in South Australia
Films set in universities and colleges
Films shot in Adelaide
Horror television films
Mystery horror films
1980s Australian films
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