If you haven’t seen Picnic at Hanging Rock and are curious, don’t let the gauzy Edwardian setting fool you: it’s a deeply haunting story. The Australian classic, originally released in 1975, was directed by Peter Weir and based on the novel by Joan Lindsay. The fictional story follows a group of boarding school girls who go on a picnic with their teacher on Valentine’s Day in 1900, and then disappear. The … Continue reading Peter Weir’s Haunting Classic ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ Is Being Remade as a Miniseries!!