Synopsis
The Plumber (1979) is an Australian TV thriller by Peter Weir you can watch online on iFILM. Made before Weir's international breakthrough with Witness, this compact 77-minute film is a slow-burn study in domestic dread.
Jill is working on her postgraduate thesis at home in a university apartment when a handyman named Max shows up unannounced. Her husband finds him charming. Jill does not. Max keeps returning — a clogged toilet, a loose fitting, an excuse to stay a little longer each time. What starts as an inconvenience hardens into something much harder to shake.
Weir builds the tension almost entirely through ordinary domestic space: a bathroom, a door buzzer, a phone that doesn't get answered. The horror here isn't supernatural — it's the specific dread of being dismissed when you know something is wrong. Stream The Plumber (1979) online on iFILM.
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