This Aussie thriller’s a masterclass in the slow build of eerie tension: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Apple TV’s Last Seen

Last Seen (Apple TV) 

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Any psychologist is bound to spot the pattern. 

Dramas down-under have an obsession with vanished children. Every other Australian thriller seems to focus on the aftermath of a disappearance.

Perhaps the first, and certainly one of the country’s greatest movies, is Picnic At Hanging Rock, the 1975 story of an outing for pupils at a Victorian boarding school for the daughters of the Aussie super-rich. 

Not all the girls come back. . . it’s as though they simply evaporate.

Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her performance as Lindy Chamberlain, in 1988’s A Cry In The

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